Dozens of transgender organizers in Spain have launched a hunger strike to push for legislation that would allow for people to correct their identity documents without a prior medical diagnosis, as the
This year Spain’s progressive United We Can party put forward a proposal that would have eliminated the requirement for a gender dysphoria diagnosis in order to change government identification, but a coalition led by Spain’s Socialist and Podemos parties shut down the legislation last week. Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo — a member of the Socialist Party — argued that streamlining legal recognition for trans people would undermine the rights of women.