This Friday, Parliament approved in a final global vote a diploma that will allow people to choose a neutral name, eliminating the current requirement that names be identified as male or female.
The final text of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Directives, Freedoms and Guarantees concerning the PS, Bloco de Esquerda, Livre and PAN bills was approved with the support of the PSD and the Liberal Initiative, as well as the initiators.
The parliamentary board of Chega and 21 SDP deputies voted against, while the PKP board, eight PS deputies and nine Social Democrats abstained.
Changes to the naming regime now allow name changes to reflect self-defined gender identity and gender expression.
On the other hand, it eliminates the discrepancy that existed when people changed their name and gender at the Institute of Civil Registry and Notary, but did not change the name on the documents of their children and spouses.
Unlike what happens now, name changes on birth and marriage records will no longer be subject to the consent of the children and spouse respectively.
One of the bills proposed by the Left Bloc also proposed the right for intersex people not to have their gender mentioned on their citizenship card, but the change failed because it was impossible to implement it in a timely manner, a Socialist lawmaker explained on Wednesday. Pedro Delgado Alves.
During the voting on the specialty, the PS deputy justified that the change requires reconfiguring the entire computer system, which is impossible, similar to the hypothesis of making a change only to the citizen’s physical card, since this would require reconfiguring the entire computer system. map.