- The Government makes the data public after a parliamentary consultation, confirming an upward trend since the approval of the standard in February 2023.
- In the last year alone, the total number has gone from 10,670 registrations to almost 16,000 throughout the national territory.
- The Executive clarifies that the procedure is based on self-determination and does not require accreditation of criminal records for its registration validity.
X-ray by territories: Where have the most changes been made?
The Executive’s response breaks down the number of registrations carried out between 2023 and December 31, 2024, showing an unequal distribution by autonomous communities. Castilla y León tops the list of facilitated regions with 422 changes, closely followed by Castilla-La Mancha (343) and Aragón (252).
Below, we detail the official data of some autonomies:
| Autonomous Community / City | Recorded changes (2023-2024) |
| Castile and León | 422 |
| Castile-La Mancha | 343 |
| Aragon | 252 |
| Estremadura | 227 |
| Balearics | 210 |
| Asturias | 199 |
| Cantabria / Navarra | 111 (each) |
| Ceuta | 53 |
| Rioja | 27 |
| Melilla | 22 |
| Consulates (Foreign) | 48 |
Parliamentary controversy over criminal records
The publication of this data responds to a series of questions posed by Vox. The training led by Santiago Abascal requested to know if there were criminal or police records, especially related to sexual crimes, among those who performed the sex change.
The Government, however, has not provided this figure, limiting itself to recalling that the procedure established in article 44 of the Trans Law consists exclusively of two appearances before the person in charge of the Civil Registry. In these appointments, it is enough for the interested person to express their “disagreement with the mentioned sex” to proceed with the change, without the law requiring medical reports or prior records, thus guaranteeing the principle of self-determination that governs the norm.
This trickle of data confirms that the change of sex in the Civil Registry has been normalized as an agile administrative procedure, fulfilling the law’s objective of depathologizing trans identity, despite the fact that the political debate about its implementation is still very present in Congress.
