Transgender person and the legal duty of express their gender identity
transgender - legal duty - fundamental rights - freedom - personality - self-determination.
The work investigates the existence of a legal content obligation that binds people who experience the transsexuality experience as a gender identity to explain their condition before the State and individuals. The research is based on the definition about transsexuality, distinguishing the concepts of biological sex, legal sex, gender and sexual vocation, to discuss the exercise of the fundamental right to the free development of the personality, in the sense of self-determination, as a result of the value of dignity of a human person. As a methodology, a bibliographical research is developed, using the deductive method to reach the protection of the individualities. It has concluded that the existence of a legal obligation for the trans person to explain his gender condition to others, only in exists at a preliminary level, directed to the moment of requesting the change in the civil registry to adapt it to the experience of transsexuality. After, at the later levels, whether in relation to the State, or in relations between individuals, there is no such duty.