Reem Alsalem is the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls. In recent statements, she expressed opposition to practices of sterilizing children and blocking the onset of puberty, considering that these measures do not guarantee the health standard to which children are entitled.
The Chega party expressed the intention to hear Alsalem within the framework of the discussion of a bill that aims to limit the possibility of changing sex and own number in the civil registry in Portugal.
The bill in question proposes significant restrictions on the processes of correcting gender and civil identification number, generating debate about the rights of trans people and minors.
The hearing proposed by Chega comes at a time of intense political debate on these issues, with different parties presenting divergent positions on the regulation of gender identity in the Portuguese legal system.
