The Civil Registry of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has denied a sergeant of the Air Force his request to be registered as a woman, understanding that the only motivation the man had for requesting a change in sex registration was to be promoted to second lieutenant. through the quotas reserved for military women. An interview with the uniformed man revealed that, far from feeling like a woman, she was looking for a job promotion under the protection of positive discrimination.
The judicial authority has appreciated in this case that the applicant's intention was not to take advantage of the assumptions legitimized in the so-called Trans Law, but rather to benefit from the consequences of being a woman with regard to positive discrimination, that is, to opt for a promotion in your work environment in an advantageous manner. The key to the decision is not in the Trans Law itself, but in the third guideline of the Instruction that the General Directorate of Legal Security and Public Faith promulgated on May 26 on the registry rectification of the mention related to sex regulated in the rule, in which it was established: “within the strict terms of Law 4/2023, of February 28, the person in charge will ensure that fraud of law or abuse of rights does not occur.”
And in the present case, the judicial authority, after summoning the interested party to the appearance required by law for the ratification of the petition, came to the conclusion that, from his statements, “it is not possible to deduce with sufficient certainty that the purpose pursued in her request is consistent with the objective pursued by the Law. On the contrary, it is deduced that it is aimed at obtaining the legal consequences that, to promote equality through positive discrimination, this and other laws establish for women. or for trans people, without [in the specific case] there being a real will to express gender as a woman,” she explains.
The magistrate in charge of the Registry explains in the order that from the procedures carried out it was possible to verify that there was no physical change in the applicant, and that he did not request a name change either, stating that his was also a woman's name. “In the same way,” the order details, “it refers to itself as masculine, it does not show any gender expression in the context of social expectations or in the relationship with the way of dressing or in the use of one name or another. or pronoun, neither in behavior, nor in voice nor in aesthetics, ignoring the difference between gender expression and gender identity, stating that she feels like a woman, but does not want to be treated as such until her identity is rectified. sex".
The resolution adds: "Likewise, he indicated that he does not know of any support group for trans people, nor does he need psychological support from anyone, and because of his profession as an air sergeant, he wants to be promoted to second lieutenant." Remember that, among other precepts, article 11.2 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary establishes that the courts and tribunals "shall reasonably reject petitions, incidents and exceptions that are formulated with manifest abuse of rights or involve fraud of law or procedure."
He adds that it is not idle to remember that the main reform of the legal system that the so-called Trans Law incorporates is that it does not require a physical or surgical alteration, nor submission to treatment, nor any type of diagnosis of gender dysphoria, thus recognizing the possibility of the person to make decisions with legal effectiveness about their identity, their own identity as the main quality of the human person.
“Consequently,” he emphasizes, “the use of the legal norm to obtain a purpose different from that provided for in the law, in addition to being fraudulent and contrary to the legal system, incorporates a special contempt for the dignity of the person who, In the case of transgender people, it has taken a long time to be recognized as a human right.” The resolution is subject to appeal before the General Directorate of Legal Security and Public Faith, and the resolution of this administrative body is in turn susceptible to review in the ordinary jurisdiction.
