Continental Europe enters the gender wars

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Last month the Spanish parliament voted against a bill that would allow people to determine their own gender. A day later Germany's voted down two similar bills

, as it is known, is the idea that people be allowed to change the legal markers of their sex simply by saying so, without jumping through any medical hoops. Trans-rights groups say this is crucial for trans people, who face daily prejudice. In Germany one of the bills, put forward by the Green Party, proposed that children be allowed to have gender-reassignment surgery from the age of 14, even if parents oppose it.

Research has had an impact. In a paper in 2015, a Finnish psychiatrist, Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino, found that more than 75% of adolescents applying for sex-reassignment surgery needed help for psychiatric problems other than gender dysphoria. Finland last year adopted strict guidelines prioritising therapy over hormones and surgery.

Defeat of the bills was more because of domestic politics than because people understood the issues and rejected them, says Amparo Domingo of Women’s Human Rights Campaign in Valencia. “Most Spanish people don’t know what it is all about.” Four new bills on “gender identity” have been drafted. If the Greens do well in German elections in September, they may re-introduce their bill, too. The debate is far from over.

 

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