Ciencia, salud y derecho: ¿tres dimensiones irreconciliables en la nueva legislación española sobre transexualidad?

Science, health and law are three dimensions that must be related when regulating matters that may affect the life or physical integrity of the person in the legal sphere. One of the areas in which this interdisciplinarity is necessary is that of transsexuality, since gender self-determination in young people can give rise to irreversible and harmful effects on health. The new Spanish law on the subject is not only oblivious to the reports that have been published on this issue by different consultative, judicial and scientific bodies, but it has opted for an alternative where scientific concerns in relation to access to sex change and gender transition for minors over 16 years of age are ignored, regardless of the consequences this may have for the health of the person.