For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below.The proposal could still change during a lengthy parliamentary debate of the legal draft.
But if its essence prevails, Spain would join a handful of countries around the world enshrining gender self-determination without a diagnosis of gender dysphoria or requiring that a person's physical appearance conform with traditional male or female expressions.It would also make the changes in the official registry faster than in most countries: up to four months from the first application to the change finally appearing in official documents.