Man Tries to Change Sex Before Being Sentenced for Domestic Violence

After being involved in a court case for domestic violence, a man requested a sex change in Menorca, Spain.

However, the courts denied it, considering it inappropriate, and he was eventually convicted.

The Mahón first instance court convicted the man of the crime of threats in the context of domestic violence for threatening his partner.

According to the ruling, in the middle of an argument with his partner, the protagonist of the events told her: "If you even think about telling the children, I will take them away, you will lose them and there will be consequences", adding that "if you do If necessary, I will kill you, but you will never see the children again."

The man, according to the sentence published by Europa Press, was sentenced to 40 days of community service, as well as being deprived of the right to own and carry weapons for a period of 16 months and 1 day. The judge also banned him from approaching and communicating with the victim for 16 months.

Before the sentence was announced, the defendant had requested the rectification of his sex, formally asking to be registered as a woman in the Civil Registry and changing her name to a female name.

However, the head of the first instance court, who is also responsible for the Civil Registry, rejected his request last May.

In that decision, the judge highlighted that, from the appellant's statements, as well as his attitude and his genuinely masculine physical appearance, "there is no sign that suggests that he identifies with the female sex he claims to opt for".

Furthermore, he added that, in this case, "it is not reasonable to think that a person would undergo all sex change procedures when belonging to the female sex is intended only to be part of the strictest family intimacy or even to reside only in the internal forum of the person, that is, as an idea without any external projection".

According to the judge, "it is known that people who do not identify with their biological sex at birth, precisely one of the first steps they take on the path to their true sexual identity is to change their name to one that identifies them with their gender. that they have chosen and, furthermore, adopt behavior that corresponds to that gender in their social relations". That wasn't what happened in this case.

For this reason, he ruled that "all this leads us to believe that the applicant's intention in requesting sex change remains hidden and is not in accordance with the objectives pursued by the law".

Remember that the Spanish "trans law", which allows changing gender in the civil registry without medical reports, was definitively approved in February 2023.