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Date Published: 10/03/2023

ARCHIVED - Suspicions mount over number of sex change applicants through Spanish trans law

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An “exorbitant” number of men have requested their genders be changed since the law was introduced in Spain

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Suspicions mount over number of sex change applicants through Spanish trans law

Spain’s pioneering Trans Law has been in force for little over a week and in that time, state officials have reported a striking number of applicants arriving at the Civil Registry offices wishing to change their gender on identity documents. That’s perhaps not too out of the ordinary, since for the first time, the new legislation allows people to change their gender on official papers, no questions asked.

What is unusual, according a staff member at the Registry office in Madrid, is that all of the applicants have been males wanting to change their gender to female, and most of them aren’t particularly bothered about altering their names.

“This is the case every day since the Trans Law was passed last week,” the employee said.

“What has caught our attention is that 100% of the applications we have received are from men who want to register as women. That is suspicious.”

Describing the increase in the number of male applicants as “exorbitant”, the worker explained that before the Trans Law was passed, the office received a relatively balanced amount of men and women.

This trend has been followed in the rest of Spain: 90% of people requesting that their gender be altered are men.

But what is the reason behind this imbalance? Is it that gender dysphoria is expressed more in males? The official doesn’t think so, and has suggested that many of the applicants are acting fraudulently, switching their gender to obtain some kind of benefit from being recognised as a woman.

“We suspect that there are cases in which they seek to take advantage through the new gender, which is precisely the feminine,” he said.

Those of this opinion are walking a tight-rope though, as the government has made it abundantly clear that any “discriminatory overtones” in handling the new rights of LGTBI people will be punished with fines of up to 150,000 euros.

For this very reason, the anonymous employee insisted that few officials would dare “question a case of gender change due to suspicions of fraud.”

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