The education authorities have forced three schools in the province of Málaga to treat transexual pupils according to their new sexual identity. Until now these schools have obligated them to use the appropriate washroom to their original sexual identity.

Three Málaga transexual schoolchildren, aged six, eight and nine, have been at the epicentre of a struggle between one state and two Catholic schools, on the one hand, and on the other the parents who are determined that their offspring can use the toilet facilities corresponding to their new gender, as well as wear the corresponding school uniform and addressing them by their new names.

The struggle ended up before the Chief Regional Public Prosecutor, who is looking into the case to see if there has been discriminating treatment, thanks to a denuncia lodged by the Asociación de Transexuales de Andalucia.

The first authorities to become involved were the provincial school inspectors, who said that they could not support the parents as there were no official documents to confirm the pupils’ adopted sexual identify other than medical reports and private psychological ones; i.e. they were lacking recognition by public authority bodies. Once the regional authorities were consulted, they stepped in and ‘corrected’ the provincial one.

However, things are further complicated by the case of one pupil at the Catholic religious school, Santa Maria de la Victoria; his or her parents are separated and cannot decide between them which sex their offspring should be.

(News: Malaga, Andalucia)