Expatica.com
MADRID ? Julio Cuesta is the first transsexual to officially change sex without undergoing an operation under a new law.
The 50-year-old ended a five year legal fight by taking advantage of the first Law of Gender Identification.
Magistrates in Valencia granted Cuesta the official right to call himself a man.
He was born a woman and has been a transsexual for 25 years.
The new law means transsexuals have the right to change their sex through a legal means, rather than having to undergo an operation.
Cuesta claims he was left for a month after an operation to change his sex went wrong and he cannot undergo the same operation again.