The Ley trans () is a 2023 Spanish law that permits gender self-identification for people over 14 years, meaning a change between the female and male genders. It bans any efforts to change people's gender expression, sexual orientation or sexual identity. The law also covers other aspects of LGBTI rights. The law does not allow people to switch to a nonbinary gender, which does not exist in Spanish law. Prior history The Andalusian autonomous government passed a gender self-identification (self-ID) law as early as 2014. It was proposed by the Asociación de Transexuales de Andalucía (ATA) Sylvia Rivera. 15 other Spanish autonomous communities passed self-ID laws before the Ley trans was passed on the national level. On the national level, the political confederation of Unidas Podemos, En Comú Podem, and En Marea on 23 February 2018 made a legal proposal for a self-ID law in the Spanish lower house, the Congress of Deputies. The proposal, titled , was also supported by the Federación Plataforma Trans. It included the rights to self-identification for over-16-year-olds, a change possible to female, male and nonbinary gender, hormonal treatment without parental consent, or otherwise, the support of a legal defender. The proposal provided for these rights to be without medical or psychological assessment, and without undergoing medical, surgical or other treatments. History of the law Government plans and gridlock The 2019 coalition agreement of the second government of Pedro Sánchez (Spain's 14th legislature) provided for the introduction of gender self-identification (self-ID). The coalition was formed by a triple alliance of Unidas Podemos, En Comú Podem (which co-sponsored the previous proposal), and Galicia en Común, and the Socialist Workers' Party, which received the most seats of the four parties. In 2020, at the beginning of the legislative period, the Ministry of Equality led by Irene Montero stated that it would develop a self-ID law. However, some Socialists such as Carla Antonelli blocked the law. On 10 March 2021, Mar Cambrollé, president of the Federación Plataforma Trans, led a hunger strike of over 70 trans people and mothers of underage trans people. Two days into the strike, the parliamentary groups of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), Más País, Candidatura d'Unitat Popular (CUP) and Compromís registered a joint law proposition it would pursue if the government did not advance its trans law proposal at the Council of Ministers on 23 March 2021. This ended the strike. Government draft