The Provincial Traffic Headquarters has also opened an information file to clarify what happened
A traffic examiner has been denounced in court by a hate crime after, during a driving test, he “repeatedly” directed a 23-year-old transgender boy as a woman using the name or that was assigned at birth or ‘deadname’.
The Provincial Traffic Headquarters has also opened an information file to clarify what happened.
As explained to Europa Press by the young man’s father, Alberto M., the events took place on the 14th in Almería when His son called him “affected” from the driving school to ask him to come and pick him up after having examined himself of the practical test of the driver’s license and having failed, according to the newspaper ‘La Voz de Almería’.
“When I arrived I was sitting on a step, completely white“, has narrated his father, who has detailed that his son confessed to having felt “humiliated by one of the examiners” when he had been addressed by his “old name and gender” both when called to take the test and during the test.
rectified information
The complainant claims to have the testimony of both his driving school teacher and another user who also went to be examined that day. He has also pointed out that Traffic had the documentation of the rectified birth certificate in his possession as well as with emails sent from the driving academy in which the name and gender of the affected person was warned.
“Both the witness and the teacher They saw that I had his name in pen“Reported the boy’s father, who explained that during the exam the examiner addressed him “on three or four occasions” by his old name despite having asked him not toaccording to this version of events.
In addition, the father of the affected person has stressed that there was no doubt, since his son “has been taking hormones for years” and that he also had a beard. “there is no confusion“, he recounts.
Apologies
The young man, despite feeling “humiliated”, opted to take the test when verifying that the examiner “did not accept that he is a man“, and at the end of the exam they told him that He had been suspended for a “very serious” offense at an intersection –rejected by the rest of the witnesses who were in the car– that he would have committed at the beginning of the exercise. But the test did not stop at that point. This has also motivated the complaint is also filed for an alleged administrative prevarication.
Faced with such a situation, the young man and his father They went to the offices of the Provincial Traffic Headquarters to request explanations as well as an apology, although they were not received by either the examiner, the chief examiner or the person in charge of Headquarters. It was two officials who received them who sent him some “apologies.”
The family, which has requested an audience with the sub-delegate of GovernmentJosé María Martín, went to the court on duty, where they filed a complaint for these events, so that two days later they have not received a call from the Provincial Traffic Headquarters, from where yes, the driving school has been contacted.
“We have never intended to go beyond an apology that I never received, except by two officials”, lamented the father of the person affected, for whom the situation has been “painful” as there was an “aggression” to his son’s rights when it is “the public administration itself that has to protect them”.
ID name
The Association of Traffic Examiners (Asextra) has shown his “unconditional support” for his partner denounced in Almería, and they have argued that the name with which he addressed the boy was the one “it appeared on his ID, as is done with all the applicants who go to take the official test.
In a statement, the entity has pointed out that the examiner performed identity verification of the aspirants who had been assigned to him on that turn”calling them by the name on the test sheet and verifying their identity in the DNI, which the applicant is required by law to show”.
Likewise, according to the version offered by the defendant through Asextra, “He was not informed by the Headquarters or by the driving school or his teacher“and” even less by the applicant himself” who “had to address him by a name other than the official identification reflected in the DNI”, contrary to what the family of the injured party maintains.
The group of examiners have stressed that the driving school or the interested party must report “before the exam” that “this circumstance exists because, otherwise, situations such as the one at hand may arise”, that “could have been preventable if the driving school or the teacher herself had noticed this circumstance”; an issue that the plaintiff claims to have complied with. “Calling them by name is a way of capturing their attention and showing empathy, something that usually makes the applicant relax and can develop their knowledge and training during the test in the most natural way possible”, they have detailed.
The driving school reported
The student’s driving school, on the other hand, has indicated that at the time the examination request was sent to the Provincial Traffic Headquarters Documentation was attached to prove the current gender of the applicantwhich “is recorded in the Administration register“.
This has been transferred to Europa Press by one of the heads of the driving school, who has detailed that, “although we are not obliged”, a medical report of the applicant was sent to prove their current gender as well as a letter stating the situation to avoid risks in the possibility of being denied the exam.
“We send everything with the theoretical and with the practical exam“, has detailed the secretary of Autoescuela Sabinal, Conchi Ruiz, who has specified that the student had already presented himself on some occasion prior to this practical test without any problem having been detected.
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In addition, they have indicated that, in this specific case, the aggrieved student came to the exam with even more documentation to prove his identitysince he had in his possession his rectified birth certificate.
From the academy they have influenced that, since “there is no protocol for this, and hence the importance of the new ‘Trans Law’ approved in Congress”, from the driving school it was decided to send the additional documentation based on a case of the same court that occurred years ago in which an applicant was prevented from taking a driving test because his gender did not coincide with the administrative identity.