Male soldiers in Spain have reportedly begun changing their gender, aiming to earn benefits exclusive to females. These benefits include higher pay and better sleeping quarters, with males seeking to exploit a 2023 law on “self-identification” to obtain them.
Forty-one males in Spain’s Ceuta, an autonomous exclave on the coast of North Africa, have reclassified as female. However, few of these individuals have even altered their names, and most have retained their male physical traits. Army Corporal Roberto Perdigones explained: “On the outside, I feel like a heterosexual man, but on the inside, I am a lesbian, and it is the latter that counts.” He added that after changing his gender, his pension and salary have increased “to compensate for inequality,” and he has a private room in the barracks.
The Spanish legislation, adopted on December 22, 2022, under the far-left Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, permits individuals aged 14 and over to change their gender without psychological or medical assessments. Those between 14 and 16 require parental or guardian consent, and those aged 12 to 13 also require judicial approval.
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