The two 8-M: from "neither Putin nor NATO" to "Montero resigns"

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"I am in this demonstration because it is transinclusive. Identity is given by gender, not sex, and accepting that is not erasing women. I am an abolitionist but I do not reject the regulation of prostitution because it protects the prostitute," says

, stuck to her friends

and

.

"I'm in this demonstration because I don't want to share space with people who allow sexual violence to be a job option. It's not hard for me to imagine a pimp or a whoremonger in a non-abolitionist demonstration," says

, joined by her friends

and

.

demonstration

of 8-M.

Berta is in the

demonstration of 8-M.

Feminism was split in two on this Tuesday for the history of the fight for equality in Spain, the first time that an 8-M is two 8-M although, deep down, there are many more things that unite it than those that they separate it.

Because an incursion into both demonstrations reveals that many women could have been in either of the two, purple masks and lifelong cries against sexist violence and the patriarchal system that makes things unequal.

However, there have been differences of depth.

Above all, in matters as central as prostitution or gender identity.

You just had to look at the posters or listen to the megaphones.

Lucía

carries a banner that reads

and

yells

.

Lucía is in the

march of 8-M and Marta in which the Government and many political parties support.

Lucía calls for the resignation of a minister who supports the trans law or the debate on the legalization of prostitution and Marta criticizes another who has distanced herself from the 'Podemos line'.

In the official march ,

and

walk with purple handkerchiefs and a Freedom and Equality poster.

"Prostitution must be legalized so that women are safer and have rights."

A few meters further on, María Antonia Araque, head of the

, holds a banner calling for the abolition of prostitution and surrogacy.

"It is a basic claim of feminism. In the past, the

(organizer of the official march) has come to corner us. To regulate is to protect the pimp."

- Then, why are you in this demonstration and not in the other one, which is clearly committed to abolition?

-Because the strategy of that demonstration is wrong.

I believe that there is no need to exclude oneself from the massive demonstration.

"My body is not for sale"

Many anti-war banners are seen at the official march.

In the other much less.

There are thousands of little signs in ink

all along the route between

and

and

, the billboards are blunt feminism: "Paying to fuck is paying to rape", "Being a woman is not a feeling", "No to the Trans law: sex is not gender".

"My body is not for sale, my belly is not for rent"...

-Why do you ask for the resignation of Minister Montero?, we asked Lucía.

-Because it is abandoning the feminist channels and is making non-feminist policies.

- For example?

-The Trans Law.

That erases the identity of women as subjects, which is the basis of the feminist struggle.

And let it be very clear that we are not against trans people.

Transsexuality is one thing and the Trans Law, another.

Bea

and

sing and chant near the Plaza de Callao.

They say that they have come to the alternative demonstration because they are against prostitution, surrogacy and pornography.

But they admit to having doubts.

"We have been arguing through the WhatsApp group until five in the afternoon because there are many things we have in common. In fact, some friends have gone to the official one and others have come to this one. All this can do a lot of damage to the feminism".

Almost at the Plaza de España,

greets

, who has been to both demonstrations, although it was purely by chance.

"It is that she has gone to accompany her mother who had remained in the other. I think that the fact that many abolitionists are in the official demonstration reveals precisely the perverseness of this fracture promoted by Podemos."

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