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-- A man with a doctor's certificate saying he was psychologically female and had lived as a woman for at least two years would be able to adopt a female name and change his sex to female on identity papers.
Spanish transsexuals will be able to officially register a change of gender even without undergoing sex change surgery under a new law proposed by Spain's Socialist government.
"This will make life more dignified for thousands of people," Deputy Prime Minister María Teresa Fernández de la Vega told reporters on Friday.
The transsexual identity bill now has to be considered by parliament, which passed another law last year legalising gay marriage despite fierce opposition from the Catholic Church in what was once one of Europe's most conservative countries.
If approved, a man with a doctor's certificate saying he was psychologically female and had lived as a woman for at least two years would be able to adopt a female name and ask the authorities to change his sex to female on identity papers.
Similar laws already exist in Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany. --
