The right of trans people to self-ID has been the subject of a backlash in Spain and Scotland, while a raft of laws aiming to ‘erase’ LGBTQ people has been unleashed in Uganda and the US. But it isn’t like this everywhere: Argentinian legislation has been granting trans people the right to self-determination for 11 years.
Its gender identity law, passed in 2012, was the first in the world to remove barriers to legal gender recognition such as the need for medical diagnosis, gender-affirming surgery, or the opinion of a judge.
As of April, 16,090 Argentinians – including 1,529 who were under 17 – had applied for and obtained new national identity cards (DNI) to change their legal gender, official figures show.
