New school protocols in Andalucia

TRANSEXUAL students in Andalucia will be able to attend classes dressed as the gender with which they identify.

Luciano Alonso, Andalucia councillor for education, has presented a new plan which includes protocols about gender identity and allows for students to choose a name with which they identify as well as the uniform and which toilets they feel more comfortable using. Alonso commented that in a perfect world such rules would not be necessary but now that they have the new protocol “what was a problem will cease to be one and, hopefully, it will end discrimination and favour the social integration of these individuals.”

This is the first such protocol in Spain and has been brought in to regulate the way public schools deal with transsexual children.

Francisco Garcia, chief of school social cohabitation, has commented that the name the child uses will be agreed with their parents and will be used on all school documents but that, until the child can legally change their name, their original name will have to be used on all external documentation.

This new law, brought in by the Andalucia parliament, has the aim of ending social stigmatisation and the pain felt by those who suffer it.

 

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