Torrelodones (Madrid) (EFE).- The City Council of Torrelodones (Madrid) has refused to consider as a woman the local police candidate who appeared for the physical tests with a notarial deed in which he stated that he felt like a woman, relying on the law trans from the Community of Madrid.
The Torrelodones Councilor for Security, Víctor Arcos, explained in statements to EFE that the qualifying court for the oppositions met this Tuesday, with the two reports requested by the Consistory from the Ministry of Equality and the Ministry of the Interior of the Community of Madrid, and has determined that “the selection process continues and this person has been classified as a man, because he does not meet the requirements of either the transnational or regional law.”
Arcos has added that the results of the physical tests have not yet been published, so they still do not know if this candidate has made the cut as a man.
The next test is the knowledge test and it will take place when the arguments for the physical tests finish.
Equality had no jurisdiction to assess the Torrelodones police candidate
According to the Torrelodones councilor, Equality has transmitted to them that this candidate, in his notarial deed, alluded to the law of the Community of Madrid, which the Ministry had no jurisdiction to assess.
However, after the approval of the trans-state law last February, this is the one that regulates said procedure, an appreciation in which the Ministry and the regional Executive agree.
Article 44 of this rule requires that the person who wants to carry out this procedure appear in the registry on two occasions, with a maximum of three months between the first and the second time, to confirm their decision. Subsequently, the Civil Registry will have one more month to issue the resolution.
Therefore, the legal effects that would be granted to this man after the change in the registry mention of sex would still not be applicable, given that since the approval of the trans law on February 28 until the alleged request by the police officer, no time has passed. three months required by the standard.
The candidate began the selection process for the Local Police in January as a man and passed the first personality and psychothesis test, but in this second physical test he presented the gender change application certificate on the day of the test, for which the court The qualifier decided that he should take the tests with two scales, as a man and as a woman, waiting for Equality and the Community of Madrid to send them guidelines on how to act in this case, which has been given for the first time after the approval of the law national trans.
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