The LGTBIQA+ entities Coordinator of the Canary Islands denounces that Education has ordered the suppression of the mention of non-binary sex in administrative forms, despite the "public commitment" to maintain it expressed by the Social Welfare area of the regional government.
The organization has reported in a statement that it has been aware of an instruction issued by the Territorial Directorate of the Ministry of Education of the Canary Islands Government in Santa Cruz de Tenerife to eliminate this box in the forms, alleging the resolution of the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD).
The organization, composed of Altihay Fuerteventura, Aperttura, Caminar Intersex, Canarypride, Chrysallis Canarias, Diversas, Gamá, Garoé, LanzaEntiende, COGAL, Lánzate, Libertrans and Violetas La Palma, believes that this decision goes against the "public commitment" expressed by the Government of the Canary Islands, through Social Welfare, under which all departments of the regional Executive had unanimously decided to maintain the third box of the non-binary gender, which mandates the Canarian Trans and Intersex Law.
In the opinion of the entities integrated in the LGTBIQA+ Coordinator of the Canary Islands, this decision "not only reflects a breach of commitment by the Government of the Canary Islands, but also constitutes a flagrant violation of the autonomous Trans and Intersex Law that endangers the conquered rights".
In addition, the coordinator assures, "it exposes non-binary people to not being recognized in accordance with their free self-determination of gender in administrative treatment" in the Canary Islands, which is "absolutely inadmissible and must be corrected by the regional Executive".
The associations have confessed their "surprise" that they "ignore the existence of the Trans and Intersex Law, which obliges the maintenance of the aforementioned third box", as well as that this data has remained "without any impact on the administrative forms of the Ministry of the Interior for foreign people and is even in their identity documents", and that, even so, "it cannot be maintained in our documentation for citizens residing in the archipelago".
The LGTBIQA+ Coordinator of the Canary Islands demands the "fulfillment of the Trans and Intersex Law" and, for that reason, some of its entities have formally requested the convocation of an "extraordinary meeting of the Advisory Committee that must evaluate the effectiveness of the measures that the norm incorporates".
It does not rule out "other legal measures to be undertaken" against any administrative decision that, under the protection of a resolution of the AEPD, goes "against the public commitment expressed to that effect and orders the suppression of the third box of the non-binary gender".
