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Updated Sunday, March 31, 2024-7:50 p.m.
Society First year of the Trans Law: 400% more cases while Europe turns back
Society The students of a gender master's degree cancel a feminist professor for not assuming the 'queer' doctrine
«Our existence is not negotiable, our identity is not debatable. Nothing and no one can make us go back." With these words, the activist
Carla Antonelli
, the first trans senator in the History of Spain, celebrated the
International Day of Trans Visibility
. It has been an Easter Sunday - the date has something allegorical - in which a multitude of people have denounced on social networks the labor and social discrimination suffered by this group and where several dozen citizens have gone in person to the Plaza del
Valencia
City Council
to gather in the rain sheltered with flags with blue, pink and white stripes.
Antonelli, from Más Madrid, has said about going back because that is the trend in a good part of European countries: if the
United Kingdom
backed down a few days ago with sex change treatments for minors by prohibiting hormone blockers,
Sweden
,
Finland
and
Norway
have excluded minors from transitions after admitting they were wrong.
In Spain, the
threat
to Antonelli is the
Community of Madrid
, which has repealed gender self-determination, limited the process to minors and linked it to mental health professionals. Since the approval of the Trans Law a year ago, registration sex changes have increased by
400%
throughout the country.
There are no signs that other autonomies are going to back down or that the Government is going to modify this law that confronted the PSOE- Podemos coalition, divided socialism and buried an
Irene Montero
who yesterday claimed "never again." silenced, never again without the right to be. In fact, the new Minister of Equality,
Ana Redondo
, has retweeted on the social network
The message has stung classic feminists, who denounce that, despite Montero's defenestration, the trans flag still has too much weight in the Ministry of Equality, even more than that of women.
Lawyer
Altamira Gonzalo
, former president of the
Association of Women Jurists Themis
, speaks on behalf of many when she reproaches Redondo for her double standards: «Dear Minister, yesterday, March 30, was International Domestic Workers Day. In Spain we have 600,000 women. We did not see a similar tweet from that Ministry. “How sad,” she says.
Juana Gallego
, a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona who two years ago was canceled by her
proqueer
students from the Master's Degree in Gender, has gone in the same direction
: "This is not the Ministry of Equality," she snapped at the minister, "but that of Todo-da-Igual, because it defends causes that harm women", in reference to the demands of the trans collective.
Unaware of this controversy, those gathered in Valencia have emulated Antonelli and have also assured that they were not going to take "not even a step back" in the face of hate speech and discrimination, while at the same time they have equated human rights with "rights." trans".
77% of trans women have suffered discrimination in Spain when looking for employment, according to the
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
in a report in which it also points out that 47% have been discriminated against in the work environment. and 58% hide and do not talk about their identity in this area of daily life. On the other hand, a
UGT
study indicates that more than half of trans people are unemployed and 79% consider that they are not socially accepted, a percentage that rises to 90% in the case of women.
Antonelli herself experienced labor and social discrimination many years ago, and in her book
The Volcano Woman
(Plaza & Janés) tells how she had to leave home because they did not accept her and, being very young, she was forced to practice prostitution. for 300 pesetas in the
Santa Catalina park
in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria because then there was no other way for trans women to make a living. That's why she says that she is not going to allow "nothing or anyone" to make her go back.