by The trans law prepared by the Catalan Government will recognize, among other things, the right to benefit of the guaranteed income of citizens (RGC) for trans people between 18 and 23 years old who are victims of violence based on gender identity. A case of violence is expulsion from home by parents. The rule also establishes that the Generalitat must develop a program to assist trans people expelled from their homes and who are living on the streets.
The new text will force the incorporation of a third box with the non-binary gender option in official documents
The Conselleria d’Egualtat i Feminismes you already have it prepared preliminary draft of the comprehensive law of recognition of the right to identity and gender expression, which will enter into a public hearing phase in the coming days and whose main articles have been presented this Wednesday to journalists. The objective of this law – if it finally goes ahead, an end that is not guaranteed by the time of the legislature – is complement the state standard promoted by former minister Irene Montero.
The state law responds, among other aspects, to the sex change registration (which is done without the need to present a medical report), something for which The autonomies have no competition. Now, the Catalan autonomous law plans to address other areas (such as health, education or culture, which fall on the autonomies) and, in some way, give the status of law to rights already recognized by the Catalan Administration.
The text also obliges administrations to name and treat people with the name and gender identity expressed.
For example, the trans law of Catalonia aims to establish the principle of depathologization of trans people, so that no right recognized in the law is conditional on the prior presentation of medical or psychological reports. This is what I’ve been doing for years. Transit, the health care service for trans people, a pioneer in Spain and Europe.
Furthermore, the new text will address the right to recognition of gender identity in a comprehensive manner, and include intersex people, will incorporate measures against transphobia and intersexphobia (with, for example, fines of between 300 and 500,000 euros). It will also force administrations to name and treat to people with the name and manifested gender identity.
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One of the most innovative aspects is that will require incorporating in the forms and documents administrative a third box with the non-binary gender option. At the same time, it also recognizes access to public health care for trans people in irregular administrative situation and guarantees the right of access to assisted reproduction techniques for the entire group.
Finally, the law also includes measures in the areas of education, employment, housing, culture and sports, as well as a section on historical and democratic memory of the trans collective.
