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The writer, who reissues her 'Tales at Forty', is one of the historical feminists who has written a letter to President Pedro Sánchez, in which she criticizes Irene Montero's Trans law and demands reflection.
Three years after the massive demonstrations of women for 8-M in 2018, what progress have we made? In awareness of inequality and sexual violence suffered by women, the feminist movement is very divided by the Trans law, ¿¿ What is happening? We are giving our opinion at the same time about a small discriminated group, whose rights must be protected. But, on the other hand, we are debating whether there is gender identity, which is individual and which should legally replace biological sex. I think it is a death trap for feminism. If gender self-determination is approved, public policies for the equality of women and men will disappear. Why? Policies for equality are based on the sexes as a biological reality that has social consequences. In other words, I was born a woman and, a priori, it is assumed that I can get pregnant and I am discriminated against when hiring. This law introduces the illusion that there is no structural inequality or inequality related to the biological, but that there is freedom of choice. That is not true. Biological sex is not chosen. Can biological sex be chosen? The law tells us that everything depends on individual choice. That is false and it is also dangerous because it will undo equality policies based on the recognition of sex. What requirements are required by law to change your sex? None. Any man for any reason can declare himself a woman. The law does not require requirements or purpose. If being a woman means feeling like a woman, we are changing the definition of a woman. I give you a practical example: there are institutes in the autonomous communities that have passed a trans law in which there are no talks about menstruation so as not to discriminate against trans girls who do not menstruate. Is this already happening? Yes, it is not a
fake
.
In your opinion, what steps should be taken to be able to change sex? We believe that psychological support is necessary.
Not transmitting the idea to children that there is a wonderful, easy, wonderful and very modern solution to solve their identity problems, which is to make a transition.
And that this is easy, painless and has great social acceptance.
85% of children and adolescents who say they have a gender identity different from their sex give up that idea when puberty passes.
The supporters of the law affirm that these norms already work in the autonomous communities and there have been no problems. It is not true.
The autonomous communities do not have powers over the Civil Registry and the DNI.
This law does allow the change of registered sex.
It is not true that these regional laws are not producing negative effects.
They are completely changing education because it is no longer educating for equality, but for diversity.
Diversity does not require equality.
Children are educated in a sexist message that tells them: "If you are a girl and you like soccer, maybe you are not a girl, but a boy."
It is the return of lifelong sexist stereotypes with the terrible aggravation that children are being pushed to start a medical process that, if perpetuated, can lead them to be dependent on hormones throughout their lives and undergo irreversible surgeries. Trans people argue that why feminists have to decide on their rights.
We live in society and we have laws that we share.
Changing the current definition of sex, which is based on biological sex, for an idealistic and subjective definition that everyone has the sex they want, changes the law for everyone.
Women and men have rights based on our sex.
Women have the right to gynecological examinations or abortion.
Women fight for the right to abortion and against surrogacy.
Those who are not biologically women, I am not saying that they are not discriminated against, they suffer other discrimination, but they have another agenda.
They do not have to fight for abortion rights.
They can be our allies, but do not supplant us. Is the transsexual collective appropriating the feminist movement? No.
Antifeminism latent in society is using the trans community to reverse women's conquests and to infiltrate feminism and destroy it from within.
Let it be clear that it is not the fault of trans people, who are a highly discriminated minority. Why is all education being changed based on a group that is very minority? The trans group is serving as a vehicle for the aggressive return of a sexist, misogynist and anti-feminist ideology.
Women's sports and women's spaces are a conquest of feminism.
We have managed to have showers or shelters for battered women, where women are alone and protected from male violence that exists.
Trans rights are being used as a vehicle to undo these conquests and allow men to enter these spaces.
Is Minister Irene Montero listening to the voice of historical feminists? This struggle we are witnessing around the trans issue is international and takes place in the United States, Argentina and Ireland.
The introduction of gender self-determination goes hand in hand with the aggression and the silencing of feminist organizations, the legalization of prostitution and the surrogacy. Why is the Ministry of Equality promoting policies that go against women? women? I don't know.
What interest could Irene Montero, an avowed feminist, have in deactivating feminism?
Ask him: Will Vice President Carmen Calvo be able to stop and reform trans law?
Why can't feminists and trans people go hand in hand? Feminists support trans rights, what we don't support is gender self-determination or free choice of sex because this is not a right.
This is to erase at a stroke nothing more and nothing less than the biological, legal and political category of sex, which is essential to fight against inequality.
Is there a lot of inequality in the world of culture? Yes.
We have improved in that there is an awareness that inequality exists, that it is unfair and does not resolve itself over time.
You give as an example that war is a great literary subject, while motherhood is totally absent. The experiences and the voice of women are much less represented.
Our lives are very unconsciously conditioned by that imaginary that men build.
For example, we still think that the strong, aggressive and competitive man is attractive.
The cultural imaginary presents the suffering of women as something erotic and the violence of men as something attractive that creates complicity.
This influences us, even if we do not realize it.
Since we were little we see
Beauty and the Beast
And we think that a nasty and aggressive guy is attractive.
Literature made by women is in fashion.
Javier Marías criticizes that now any dark or hidden woman is considered great. I'm going to shut up.
What does it mean to be a mother and creator?
If you do not have a feminist conscience, you take it very badly because you are living a very important experience and you feel that it is not an experience worthy of being reflected in high culture.
Then you start to dissociate.
On the one hand, there is your mother's self and, on the other, there is your writer self who has to talk about supposedly more universal and elevated things.
But it is a wonderful opportunity because there is a whole vein of feminine themes that are very little explored.
In your autobiography 'It wasn't going to happen to me', you say that when you were a mother you ended up falling into the traditional female role despite yourself.
Partly to my regret and partly joyfully.
Being a mother, a housewife and a maruja, which is what I became from the age of 35 until I got divorced, made me discover many things.
Patriarchy is not just discrimination, it is also temptation and ease.
It is not only a stick, but it is also a carrot.
He also offers things to women, because otherwise we would have already overthrown him.
I was not aware of it and, through this life as a housewife, I was aware that I was experiencing precious but devalued things.
They are not paid, which condemns you to economic dependency.
I loved being a mother, but this led to being poor or dependent on my husband. Many women live happily supported by their husbands.
Yes, as long as they accept the subordinate role.
At first, you don't see it.
But when the infatuation passes, you realize that you are subordinate to him, that he is the one who makes the decisions because he is the one who makes the money.
And that is very unfair because you are also working to support that family.
When I wanted to get divorced, I fell on all fours: I had no pension, no income, no job, no benefit, only half of the community property.
Has feminism dealt little with motherhood? Feminism has a difficult relationship with motherhood, which has always been the great argument against equality.
For this reason, she has reacted by downplaying motherhood because she saw it as an obstacle to the development of women.
We should revalue motherhood by cleaning it of patriarchal interpretations.
I claim a motherhood that is not passive, submissive, or corny, but the vision of motherhood that we have received is that of the baby food advertisements.
And condemns women to economic dependency.
We have to reinvent motherhood, but not deny it.
You were one of the first intellectuals to oppose the
process
.
Did you pay a very high price? Personally, yes.
I have lost friends and family.
But I think I have helped to avoid something very serious that could have led us to a civil war.
It's a shame to lose friends for thinking differently, right?
There are themes that, for whatever reasons, capture us in a visceral way.
Now it is happening with the trans issue.
We have not managed to maintain friendship over ideological differences and it hurts me.
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