Supreme Court in Spain in favour of a minor to change legal gender

The Supreme Court in Spain ruled on 18 December in favour of a trans minor to change his gender marker in his ID, and endorsed for the first time this year’s Constitutional Court decision lifting the age limitation for legal gender recognition. Questions remain about the need for an assessment of “sufficient maturity and stable situation of transsexuality,” a condition set in the Constitutional Court sentence.

Read more about the ruling of the Supreme Court (in Spanish).

Read more about the Constitutional Court decision from 18 July.