Chile Passes Law Allowing Teens over 14 to change their Gender

Lawmakers in Chile passed legislation allowing people as young as 14 to legally change their name and gender identity.

The Chamber of Deputies passed the Gender Identification Act through a vote of 95-46. sex It allows people aged 18 and up to change their name and legal gender, while those under the age of 14 can do so with the consent of a parent or legal guardian. The Senate passed the bill last month, so Wednesday's vote ended a five-year battle in the deep conservative South American country. The hot debate law came close to passing several times, but the issue came to a head earlier this year in the last month of former president Michelle Bachelet's term.

“We are witnessing a historic event which we celebrate with great emotion and joy,” said Alvaro Troncoso, head of the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh).
“It will improve the quality of life of thousands of people whose dignity and rights have been denigrated simply by the prejudices that exist against their gender identification.”
Activists had argued that not allowing people to register legally under the gender they most strongly identified with was a form of discrimination and had caused a variety of social, psychological and legal problems.
“Right now, for the Chilean state, I do not exist,” transgender activist Alessia Injoque told AFP shortly before the law was passed.
“Right now there is someone called Alejandro who is not me.”
She said the new law would “grant me legal recognition of my existence: recognizing my identity is recognizing a segment of the population that has been ignored and whose identity has been denied.”
A survey conducted by Movilh in August of 326 people identified as transgender revealed that 76 percent of respondents reported having discrimination against their sexual orientation, limiting their options to find employment. When a new law is valid, single persons aged 18 or more may change legally in their name and gender by filling out a form in the civil registration office, while the married can be done in a family court. Young people aged 14 to 18 require permission at least one parent or guardian to change their gender identity in a family court. Without them, they may request a judge to intervene. The efforts to apply the law to those under the age of 14 have run opposition from conservative lawmakers








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