Hello, my name is Mel Constain, I am a trans non-binary, racialised and disca person.
I do academic activism and on the 19th of October I am presenting a paper at the IV Jornadas Nacionales de Sexología.
I want to talk about our desire, attraction and relationships as NB (Non-Binary) people living in Spain regardless of our place of origin. I also want to raise the need to know our experiences and how to generate sexological practices that do not (further) violate our experiences.
Non-binary persons
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Adding an additional option to the gender markers on documents would mean accepting a hierarchy that is worth questioning. The author of this text, whose case has opened a crack in the Foreigners' Registry, reflects on the possibilities of a future without gender checkboxes. - Resource
Dismantling Misconceptions About Gender, Gender Identity & the Human Rights of Trans PeopleTGEU, ILGA Europa and GATE publish a report on how to counter common anti-trans narratives.
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Last year Alana, supported by their lawyer Olga Burgos, achieved a ground-breaking sentence from the High Court of Justice of Andalucia (TSJA in Spanish), which came to the conclusion that they needed to be registered in the Central Registry of Foreigners with a "not specified" sex, as"non-binary" or with "X", as they have this recognised in their country of origin.
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This is Mel Constain's master thesis, which "has as its objectives to explore, visualize, and analyse the lifehoods over the whole evolutional development within a Spanish context. This is an explorative study. The sample of 16 non-binary people is selected by an intentional stratified and snowball sampling. The techniques used are tales of life, the Anxiety and Depression Scale of Goldberg, the Corporal Self-Esteem Scale by Peris, and a Sociodemographic Survey. The analysis is made by thematic and statistical analysis. Also situated knowledge, reflexivity, and care, are used.
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You can change your name and sex/gender with the Andalusian Health Service (SAS), even if you have not changed them at the Civil Registry. This may be especially useful for people with a non-Spanish nationality who cannot change their name and sex/gender in their country (and also not in Spain with the Trans Law), or for non-binary people or other identities in Spain for which the Trans Law does not apply.
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Published in Spanish in El Topo nº 60.
Your body is yoursat the end of the dayAnd don’t let the hateful try and take it awayWe want to be free, yeah,we go our own wayAnd my body was made, oh
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Interview with Mel Constain, published (in Spanish) in the blog of Instituto Universitario de Sexología UCJC (IUNIVES), 18 March 2021
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Published in El Salto, 16 February 2020 (original in Spanish)
After more than three years, and more than five years of the recognition of the free determination of gender identity in Andalusia, in November 2019, I finally achieved exactly this: that the Andalusian Health Service recognized my gender identity outside the binary of man and woman, as, in my case 'indeterminate' (not to say 'genderqueer'). It has been a long and sometimes frustrating struggle.
