Podemos has reproached Carmen Calvo for trying to "torpedo" the trans law, while boasting that she had already won that battle in the Council of Ministers, when the then vice president of Pedro Sánchez "tried to prevent" the law from being approved .
This has been the response of the party to which the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, belongs, after Calvo warned in an interview with EL MUNDO that the trans law "is going to destroy equality legislation" and that "there is no "The fundamental right to gender self-determination.
The co-spokesperson for Podemos,
Isa Serra
, who is also an advisor to Montero at the Ministry of Equality, has reproached Calvo for making a "mistake" by "re-opening the debate" regarding this law, which is being processed in Congress .
In this sense, she has contrasted that in the face of the former vice president's attempt to "torpedo" the norm, there is a "firm commitment" from the coalition government to approve it in the coming months.
Serra has stressed that "everyone knows" that Calvo "has opposed trans rights and this law on numerous occasions."
"On the day he tried to prevent him from going to the Council of Ministers but he finally went," he stressed.
The purple
spokeswoman
has celebrated that the consequence of Montero's victory in the confrontation with Calvo is that now it is "at the gates" to approve a law that guarantees gender self-determination and rights for transsexual people.
In a press conference, he assured that the trans law is "necessary" and makes Spain "better as a country".
Next, he stressed that it is "essential to avoid the transphobic speeches that have been seen during these times."
"As a government we have the commitment to leave them behind and approve this law", he has settled.
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