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A Spanish activist campaigning for transsexual rights said she had become the first person in the Spanish capital to request a legal change of name and sex under new laws passed last month.
Under the new law Carla Antonelli, who was born a man, can request a change to her name and sex on official documents without having to undergo a sex change operation.