Trans boy, 15, wins right to change his name officially
Friday, February 15, 2019 @ 10:30 PM
A TRANSSEXUAL teenager has won the battle to have his name printed on his national ID card after appealing a decision which claimed this was ‘not neutral enough’.
Gabriel Delgado Suárez, 15, from Calatayud (Zaragoza province) was born a girl but does not identify with his sex, and has considered himself a boy from very earliest childhood.
He has grown up as a transsexual male, is in treatment to ensure he develops as a man, and yet was not permitted to give himself a man’s name on his DNI card.
Yet his SIP, or health service card, shows his name as Gabriel, which he has been called for practically all of his life.
The Civil Registry denied him permission to change it, despite having permission from his mother, Pilar – still necessary for minors – saying ‘Gabriel’ was ‘not gender-neutral’ and was ‘unequivocally masculine’.
“But that’s the whole point,” said a frustrated Gabriel, who identifies entirely as male and not as ‘gender-neutral’ or ‘non-binary’.
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