Posted on 05/14/2006 10:37:54 AM PDT by dukeman
Transsexuals in Spain will be allowed to change identity documents without undergoing sex change operations, according to reports.
The law is expected to be produced this summer and will allow a man to undertake a woman’s identity and vice versa if they can live as the opposite sex for 18 months and be approved be a psychiatrist.
The move by Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s government, is being welcomed by transsexuals and activists.
It comes just a year after Spain introduced gay marriages for same sex couples.
Although it will not apply to social security , the law will avoid problems transsexuals usually encounter with identity documents.
Meanwhile the Spanish Province of Malaga has had one of its first case of domestic violence in a gay marriage this week.
Police patrolling the island saw a fight between the lesbian couple, who were one of the first to marry on the Island, and intervened after one of the women had fallen to the floor and was being kicked, officials claim.
However, the victim has decided not to press charges, claiming her partner is depressed.
In July 2005, Spain became the third country to legalise same sex marriage, after the Netherlands and Belgium.
I've never understood what the heck CLinton meant by the third way but i don't think it was about transexuals or lesbians.
>> The Third Way
The Third Way is a global movement dedicated to modernizing progressive politics for the information age. Third Way politics seeks a new balance of economic dynamism and social security, a new social compact based on individual rights and responsibilities, and a new model for governing that equips citizens and communities to solve their own problems.<<
http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ka.cfm?kaid=128
I thought they'd done this already for the prime minister.
The way spain is rotting, it may actually be an improvement when the muslims take it over...
In countries with avowedly socialist parties, the Third Way signalled a turn toward a more pragmatic version of leftism. The interesting thing about the Clintonite version, is that I'd never seen Democrats acknowledge that their party was socialist. This is usually dismissed as a conservative canard. However, Third Way theorists did admit it.
dammit i hate those links! :)
Thank you - I didn't know the history.
Zapatero has completely ripped their social fabric apart. No way could someone on the right EVER bring about this much social change.
Sounds like Spain is on that To-Hell-in-a-Handbasket train big time.
Europe will be predominately Muslim no later than the end of this century and the sexual deviants will be begging for a return to the days of the "Christian fundies."
Europe will be predominately Muslim no later than the end of this century and the sexual deviants will be begging for a return to the days of the "Christian fundies."
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I fear you are so right.
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