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"Historic day". "Giant step". Irene Montero has celebrated the approval by the Council of Ministers of the preliminary draft of the Trans and LGTBI Equality Law because Spain has been "at the forefront of Europe" in the recognition of the rights of both groups and because, after a tough negotiation between the PSOE and United We Can, their criteria have been imposed so that gender self-determination is a reality in the law.

However, despite the public congratulations, the injuries caused by the negotiation have been in evidence during the press conference after the Council of Ministers, because the Minister of Equality has completely ignored the intervention of Carmen Calvo in the fine-tuning of the law. And, the first vice president has led the criticism and reluctance to recognize gender self-determination until she has lost the battle.

When explaining the process of preparing the final text, Montero has made an "honest recognition" to the Ministry of Justice and its head, Juan Carlos Campo, for the contribution that has been made to guarantee legal security in the change of gender before the Civil Registry. But, in contrast, he has not mentioned Calvo at any time, which he has not included in the acknowledgments or to which he has made any recognition. No gesture.



Aware of the situation, it has been the Minister of Justice who in his initial intervention has taken the opportunity to "extend" the recognition to the first vice president for having had a "fine, select and competent role" in improving the draft bill of the Ministry of Equality. And he has praised his figure. "Having a person who is sensitive to these issues like no other", stressed the socialist minister, "is a reason for solidity."

Irene Montero has not hidden that the negotiation has been "long and difficult", "and there is nothing wrong to admit it", but she has congratulated that in the end the work "has paid off."

Therefore, he has presented the Trans Law as "a sample of the strength" of the Government.

Since despite the importance of the differences with which it was started, it has been possible to work and approve a text that, now, will be processed in Congress.

Where, by the way, it has broad support but with the will to improve it.

Sex change without reports or hormones

The Minister of Equality is very satisfied with the result, since in the end gender self-determination will be law, as she promised so many times during the year that the draft has remained blocked by Calvo due to differences over its content. This means that a trans person can change gender in the Civil Registry with his only declaration. Without requiring any psychiatric, medical report or a two-year hormonal period (as required by current law).

All this disappears because transsexuality is depathologized.

Which means that no third person has to intervene in the process by which a trans person changes from male to female, or vice versa, for public administrations.

There are no doctors and there are no hormones.

Neither before requesting the sex change nor afterwards, when it has already been modified.

War on feminism

The trans law is celebrated as a milestone by Montero, the Ministry of Equality and a multitude of LGTBI groups, mainly the trans community.

However, at the same time it has opened a huge dispute in feminism because the sectors most traditionally aligned with the PSOE consider that gender self-determination "erases women" and puts their rights and their struggle at risk.

Thesis that until not so long ago Calvo shared.

To all these critical feminists, Irene Montero has sent several messages.

On the one hand, he has stressed that the law is "feminist" because "if we do not all arrive, none will arrive";

and because it guarantees respect for the human rights of trans people.

On the other hand, Montero has argued that these criticisms will be rectified or appeased in the future.

Because "always" there has been "debate" and "opposition" when "laws with this draft" arrive.

In comparison with the importance of the laws of abortion or same-sex marriage, the minister has indicated that the same will happen with the Trans Law, "that later years later no one recognizes himself in opposition to those laws."

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