An agent of the Civil Guard in Mallorca has officially requested the change of sex and has taken advantage of the law for the real and effective equality of trans people and for the guarantee of the rights of LGTBI people. The man has already declared himself a woman and is the first of whom there is official evidence that he has accepted the rule, according to Ultima Hora. Another agent in Eivissa has also started the procedures, but she has not yet been able to register as a woman.
The agent declared herself a woman a few months ago, when she began the process to appear in the Civil Registry. From that moment on, the procedures began for this sex change to also appear in all the documentation held by the Civil Guard Command. The commanders are also currently processing the change to apply the new protocols with the agent.
The personal data that appeared in the official registry of the Civil Guard has already been changed and all the information has been provided to the General Directorate in Madrid so that the treatment of the agent is now that of a woman. The expectation is that the agent will continue to perform her duties in the same area where she was until now and using the same facilities, now as a woman.
The agent has already made the appearance required by law to present the statement of disagreement with the sex that appears on the birth registration, as well as the request that it be corrected. In this appearance she had to include the new chosen one, except in the event that she wants to keep the one she already had.
The objective of the law, approved at the request of the then Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, is to develop and guarantee the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people “eradicating situations of discrimination, to ensure that in Spain can experience sexual orientation, sexual identity, gender expression, sexual characteristics and family diversity with complete freedom,” according to the standard.
The law regulates the registry rectification of the mention relating to the sex of people and the documentary adequacy, “recognizing the freely expressed will, depathologizing the procedure and eliminating the age of majority to request rectification.”
