A six-year-old girl named Luana, or "Lulu"
for short, may be the youngest person ever in Argentina to legally
change her gender from that which she was assigned at birth, reports the
U.K. Telegraph.
Argentina enacted its new gender identity law in May 2012,
which permits individuals to determine their own sex and gender, and be
identified appropriately on their national identity card, the DNI, as
well as their birth certificate, according to the Telegraph.
Lulu's mother, Gabriela, petitioned Buenos Aires Mayor
Daniel Scioli and Argentine president Cristina Kirchner to allow her
daughter to be legally recognized as female, though she was assigned
male at birth. Gabriela told the public officials that her daughter has
identified as female since she first began to speak.
"By accepting that my son was not the son I gave birth to,
but a girl, I accepted her identity and put myself at her side,"
Gabriela told the Telegraph from Buenos Aires.
Gabriela first filed the request for her daughter's legal
gender change last December, but was denied because of her daughter's
young age. But Argentina's secretary of children, youth, and family
subsequently overturned that decision, citing international human rights
doctrine that determined a person under 14 can legally consent to such a
change.
Following that decision, Mayor Scioli approved Lulu's
application to change her name on her DNI and birth certificate, reports
the Telegraph.
"The government of the province of Buenos Aires has
decided to provide a solution to this particular case raised by the
family," Scioli's chief of staff, Alberto Perez, reportedly told
Spanish-language news outlet La Nación.
Argentinian reports claim Lulu's case is the first in the
world where a transgender child has been able to change their legal
gender through an administrative process, without turning to the
judicial system.
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