Equality.Montero advances a 'Trans Law' that recognizes "gender self-determination" and allows changing sex on the DNI without medical report or hormones
Government.Carmen Calvo criticizes the Trans law that proposes Equality because it would allow choosing gender by "mere will or desire"
The draft of the Trans Law anticipates a new conflict in the Government between the PSOE and United We Can.
And he anticipates the fight against this project by the feminist movement that, with the draft in hand, does not hesitate to classify it as "the worst attack against women's rights."
A paradigm shift, a "brutal setback", which could end the legal basis of laws against sexist violence and equality. This is explained by a spokeswoman for the
Alliance against Erasure
Women's
, an organization created in 2019, in the heat of the first international legislation on self-determination of sex and before the promise of new laws of the coalition Government, an association that denies being in the orbit of the PSOE and that ensures that like-minded women also participate in it to
We can
and outside of any political action.
For three days they have been tearing down the draft of the Trans Law, in what the first steps represent to prevent its approval under the terms proposed by the Minister of Equality,
Irene Montero
, recognizing that sex is not determined by birth but by will.
Against this philosophy, based on the so-called
queer theory
, this group maintains that "to be a woman it is not enough for a man to say he wants to be a woman", "to be a woman is not a desire in the mind of a man."
"You cannot legalize wishes," he summarizes.
Against Montero: "It is a brutal setback" in Equality or in the face of sexist violence
This is, according to a spokeswoman consulted by this newspaper, what the law of Irene Montero intends.
Legislation that they also consider "unnecessary" because the rights of transgender people are already protected.
And that threatens to destroy such decisive advances as the Equality law or against sexist violence, because sex "disappears as a legal category."
The basis of the inequality involved in being born a woman is eliminated, they explain, because "sex is no longer relevant except how you feel."
In fact, they warn, it supposes to coincide "with what he says
Vox
»And his defense that violence does not understand gender and that women are not attacked just because they are.
«To the girls who maim in
Africa
They are not mutilated because they feel like girls but because of the fact that they were born girls, ”they emphasize.
“Inequality becomes irrelevant if what matters is not the fact of being a woman.” For all this, because of the consequences that a change of sex in the DNI can entail - the new law will allow modifying the sex in the
Civil registration
without the need to provide a medical or psychological report proving "gender dysphoria" - for how it could affect sports competitions in which "a man who was born a man and developed as a man competes with women", the Alliance Against the Erasure of Women is upset by attempts to reduce this issue to one more fight within the Government.
"It is an insult to the feminist movement to say that this is just a fight between PSOE and Podemos," they defend.
"It is not a war between supporters of Carmen Calvo and Irene Montero." And it may be a mistake to approach this matter as one more fight of the Executive but on the political level this is already a reality.
The socialist wing of the Government yesterday bravely addressed this conflict with Podemos.
In a statement in La Ser Barcelona, the first vice president of the Government,
Carmen Calvo
,
expressed his concern
for the fundamentals of the draft of the Trans Law: "I am fundamentally concerned that gender can be chosen, without more than mere will or desire, putting at risk the identity criteria of the rest of 47 million Spaniards."
Calvo considers it essential that this regulation be carried out with "legal certainty" and "normative quality" and that it does not conflict with the principles set out in other laws.
Calvo pronounces: "I am concerned that gender is chosen by mere will or desire"
The position of the PSOE bloc in the Government is that it is only a draft, which includes the positions of United We Can.
"Now we have to reach an agreement within the Executive, give quality to the norm and security to the rights that are recognized," say socialist sources.
dwelling
, your spokesperson in the
Congress
,
Pablo Echenique
, instead reduced the differences and the controversy that they are in the Government and that the
Ministry of Equality
Before socialist competition, it is directed by Irene Montero.
In short, the criticisms are not against the draft of the law but directly against them.
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