Two prisoners from the Asturias prison have already applied to the Llanera registry office with a request to change the mention of their gender in the register, according to what the newspaper announced this Saturday. New Spain. At least one of them, according to sources cited by the local press, would have done so “out of the blue” and without any backstory. Four more prisoners are reportedly planning to do so in the near future.

Officials say the recent approval of the “Transgender Law” is causing this type of situation in prisons, in which some inmates try to take advantage of the rules to change their gender and try to be transferred to female units, usually less confrontational and hostile than males. .

However, penitentiaries are now regulated by the 2006 regulation, which already allows the transfer of transsexuals to modules of the gender they identify with.

However, this instruction requires the prisoner to submit a medical report and a psychological report. So far, these reports have been based on the fact that the hormonal processes of change had already begun in the individual and that there was a history that incontrovertibly confirmed the prisoner’s readiness to undergo this change.