Trans athletes will not be able to compete internationally

The Spanish Athletics Federation joins the International and prohibits trans athletes from competing in women's events

La International Athletics Federation (World Athletics), following the path opened by swimming and rugby, has decided to prohibit trans athletes who have undergone testosterone blocking therapy and hormone replacement after the age of 12 from taking part in its women's competitions. The Royal Spanish Athletics Federation It will follow the same criteria as the international one and leaves the respective decisions in the hands of the autonomous communities.

The measure, adopted on Thursday, replaces the previous rule, which set a limit for endogenous testosterone, below five millimoles per liter of blood, to allow their participation. The rule was so impossible to skip that the World Athletics It has no record of any trans women taking part in its competitions.

As stated by the President of World Athletics, Sebastian Coe, the new regulations apply to “protect women's sport”, although the body itself affirms that “there are currently no trans athletes competing at the international level in athletics and consequently, there is no evidence of the impact they could have on the fairness of the competition”. In other words, the decision to exclude trans women has been made without checking whether or not they really participate with an advantage. Coe has declared: "We will revise our position as more evidence becomes available, but we believe that the integrity of the women's category in athletics is paramount.".

Discrimination

Trans athletes will not be able to compete internationally«We prefer to prioritize equality over inclusion” they affirm from the World Athletics. Said exclusion implies a contradiction with the laws of a large number of countries, which grant full rights as women to all transsexuals, inasmuch as it deprives them of the right to compete.

The Council of World Athletics It has also agreed to lower the blood testosterone levels that will be allowed in the women's category. This will affect athletes with differences or abnormalities of sex development (DSD). Under the new guidelines, female athletes with DSD will need to have a blood testosterone level below 2,5 nanomoles per liter, and they will have to stay below that threshold for at least two years to compete in international events in the women's category.

The problem is the social discrimination laments the vice president of the FELGTB, Mané Fernández. "It is discrimination based on fear, because the same federation comes to say that although there are no cases, just in case they are going to prohibit trans women from participating. We believe that it would be necessary to investigate, study and see what happens before clearly saying no, because they are basing themselves on an unreal fear. A prohibition on nothing does not stop being discrimination ”, considers Fernandez, which ensures that this type of message “they double down on social transphobia".

Trans athletes will not be able to compete internationally

 

Meloni limits parental rights for gay couples

Italy intensifies the persecution of homosexual couples by abolishing the current municipal registry of their children

En Italy el ultra-right government chaired by Giorgia Meloni has taken an alarming step towards suffocating the few rights recognized in the country to the collective LGTBI. Until now, an informal solution for registering the children of homosexual couples consisted of a false alternative that allowed them to be registered as Adopted children by one of the members of the couple in the municipalities that enabled it (always progressive). That shameful loophole has been suspended while the State Attorney files appeals to delete the records with the immediate consequence of linking the child to a sole parent.

For example in Milan, for more than four years, the progressive mayor Giuseppe Sala, has allowed the names of both parents to be entered on the birth certificates of the children of homosexual couples. Up to now I have registered 400 creatures. But he will not be able to do it anymore, by order of the Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, who has sent a letter through the government delegation in which he asks him to stop doing so based on a law of the 2004 on medically assisted procreation, which in this country is only allowed for couples of different sex.

European certificate

Meloni limits parental rights for gay couplesThe scope of the measures taken by the Government of Brothers of Italy is cross-border because also the Senate has refused approval of the european certificate that homogenized this type of records and protected the families of homosexual parents who temporarily resided in Italy. The consequence is that after settling in the country they lose the legal recognition of their children.

The only way available is to return to that vexatious solution of faking an adoption for the member of the couple who is not a biological father or mother for the so-called particular cases, which goes through different interviews where they must prove their suitability to adopt who they already are. your son. And also women's partners are legally required to go out of Italy to resort to the artificial insemination.

Melons has complied with what was announced in the electoral campaign. The aberration is as absurd as it is cruel and largely alien to the convictions of a large part of the population. In Spain we could hear Meloni in a passionate speech in support of Vox in the Andalusian electoral campaign. Last week, hundreds of people protested in the Lombardy city against what the community LGTBI Italian sees as a great discrimination against the collective, a demonstration of which the new leader of the opposition was part Democratic Party, Elly Schlein.

Meloni limits parental rights for gay couples

A rancher denounces suffering repeated homophobia in El Bierzo

A rancher will undertake a march of more than 100 kilometers accompanied by a cow to denounce the homophobia he suffers in Tejedo del Sil

The livestock baldomero lopez denounces that in the town of Sil weaving, where he has a farm, he is denied access to pasture without any motivation. This prevents you from accessing the help of the CAP and jeopardize your business. Given his requests in the council, the neighborhood meeting that decides on the issues of the town's assets, ends up settling with an insult of "fagot” on several occasions, according to the newspaper the bierzo.

baldomero and your partner have owned a jointly-owned farm since the year 2021. In fact they were la first gay couple to apply. Already at that time the pasture conflict existed, since they were denied access to them despite being the the only farm in town. For the allocation of pastures it is necessary that the Neighborhood Board authorize it and then it is the Castilla and leon meeting the one that, before the different requests, specifies the allowed use of pastures and the cost of the same, how good they become income for the town.

The farmer has a hundred cows dedicated to meat and denounces that without pasture their way of life is in danger: "they had me cheated with the fact that I did not have the right to cattle pasture, I was losing two years and it turns out that I had the right”. That is why he has announced that will undertake a march from El Bierzo to the city of León next April 10 accompanied by one of his cows to claim a solution that allows you to continue with your livestock.

"The fag spoke, out, the session is adjourned"

A rancher denounces suffering repeated homophobia in El Bierzo"I have the right to the hectares and they argued that I had no right”, he regrets to explain that when the councils were held they ended with a “The fagot spoke, out, the session adjourned” to avoid the subject. Yet the homophobia due to his sexual condition, he attributes part of the explanation of what is happening: “They told me to leave the council for being a fag several times, I did not march but the session continued”. He accumulates three years of formal request for pasture without positive results, despite being the only active farmer in the town of the municipality.

The rancher also does not hide that his status as former president of the Tejedo del Sil Neighborhood Council for the PSOE – before the current representative, for the PP – can influence the situation, but the expression of “fagot"As an insult, it always ends up coming out:"At first I thought it was a political issue but no, they are very concerned with fagots”. López was even criminally denounced for alleged irregularities in neighborhood management in a case that was filed.

contacted by the newspaper the bierzo who made the case public, the president of the Tejedo del Sil Neighborhood Council, David Verano, has declined to offer an assessment of the matter, merely pointing out that things are mixed up and that he is studying legal measures due to the controversy created.

100 Kilometers, a farmer and a cow

baldomero, despite the promises he has received to fix the situation, he continues his march on foot with his cow to León. A route of five stages and a hundred kilometers that a large part will be the same as the last black march in favor of coal that took place in 2012. And this tenacious rancher announces that he will camp in the city in front of the headquarters of the Castilla and leon meeting until you have a solution to the conflict. and before the homophobia who suffers is clear that he will not shut up: "They don't care who I sleep with".

A rancher denounces suffering repeated homophobia in El Bierzo

Life imprisonment or death penalty in Uganda for being gay

Uganda approves "one of the worst laws in the world" against the LGTBIQ+ community

Uganda has, since this Tuesday, «one of the worst» laws against homosexuality in the world, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, who has described it as «scandalous and devastating because it punishes the entire collective LGTBIQ + simply for existing, for being who they are«.

Türk asked the President of the country, Yoweri Musevini, which does not ratify the standard approved by the Parliament which establishes, among other punishments, the death penalty for the crimeof aggravated homosexuality»for gay, lesbian and transsexual people -when it is considered, for example, that a homosexual relationship is not consensual or that there has been coercion-.

In addition, it also includes prison sentences, which can reach life imprisonment, for "the attempt at homosexuality»Or«your promotion«, which can be punished with 20 years in prison.

For Türk, the norm confuses consensual sexual relations with those that are not consensual and enters into conflict not only with one's own ugandan constitution, which promotes «equality and non-discrimination«, but also contradicts the international legal obligations of the country in terms of human rights. Also, add Türk, places "in grave danger» the most basic rights of Ugandan citizenship.

El UN high commissioner he also fears that the law will be used to punish journalists, medical personnel and human rights defenders."just to do his job«.

Approved almost unanimously

Life imprisonment or death penalty in Uganda for being gayHowever, the law has been approved almost unanimously and without great debates or doubts. Only 2 of the 400 deputies have voted against. The criminalization of homosexuality is the result of a great consensus in the country where there are many prejudices against the homosexual population, as a result of stereotypes with strong cultural roots and which were reinforced during the coronavirus pandemic. AIDS.

Some also associate him with the pedophile practice, as can be seen from the speech of the deputy from the region of Amuria, Musa Ecweru: "We make this law for our children, we make this law for our children's children. This country will stand its ground, and once it passes we will strengthen the police to make sure that homosexuals have no space in Uganda«.

El Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared: "This deviation. Are deviants born this or are they made this way? This must be said by doctors. West You must stop wasting humanity's time trying to impose your practices on the rest of the world. "

Türk believes that the new law will fuel social hatred and give"White card" for one "systematic rape" of the human rights.

In February alone, more than one hundred arrests, forced evictions, public humiliations and sexual assaults against people LGTBIQ + According to United Nations, who have also denounced an increase in homophobic rhetoric in the public speeches of the country's political, religious and social leaders.

Until 35 of the 52 countries in Africa they do not respect the rights of homosexual people and penalize not only their practice, but also their own homosexual identity. In Mauritania and, when the law approved this Tuesday is ratified, also in Uganda, the punishments can become the death penalty.

Life imprisonment or death penalty in Uganda for being gay

Abascal describes LGTBI activists as "degenerates" in the motion of censure

The leader of the extreme right takes advantage of the motion of no confidence to fill Congress with hoaxes

Santiago Abascal has focused its interventions on the motion of censure against Pedro Sánchez to attack the Government. The leader of the extreme right has deployed his post-truth strategy to criticize the feminist and LGTBI politics with hoaxes and half truths.

Abascal has accused Sanchez of being the "responsible for the fact that being a woman no longer means anything, because it is acquired by the simple will of the individual” and has invited you to “go to the civil registry and express your hatred of testosterone”, as part of his usual conglomerate of criticisms that mix gender violence, trans law, rape and even sports competitions.

"Some of the rapists they have released when they rape again and are arrested will ask to be admitted to women's prisons and there they will rape again”, has maintained the leader of Vox no blush. The law does not allow the change to be carried out with the aim of avoiding a conviction for gender violence, nor is a hypothetical sex change applied retroactively, but the truth does not matter much when you have a tremendous loudspeaker to spread hoaxes.

He has also blamed Sanchez of the release of rapists and pedophiles in application of the law of the only yes is yes and has come to qualify as "degenerate” to community rights activists LGTBI. "We will also ask them to account for the boys and girls whom some organizations, in many cases of subsidized degenerates, confuse so that they end up mutilating themselves and making irreversible decisions in their bodies and minds."He said.

pregnant hoaxes

Abascal describes LGTBI activists as "degenerates" in the motion of censure

"There are almost no mothers anymore, for their government, because they prefer to call them pregnant parents”, he blurted out from the rostrum abascal, an argument used before by nunez feijoo, president of the PP, absent on this motion. The reality is that the text does not replace the word "father" by "non-pregnant parent”, as they claim. The norm does modify the Civil Code to include the terms “pregnant parent"And"non-pregnant parent”, which will coexist with the words “mother"And"father” to include both trans people who have the capacity to gestate and homosexual people who have children.

"There is no longer justice for women in sports competitions", has added. The situation of the trans women in sport It has not changed one iota with the approval of the new law, despite the fact that it has become one of the favorite hoaxes of the extreme right.

Abascal has promised yes Vox governs will repeal "all the laws” that have come out of Ministry of Equality So what "they denigrate women and erase all their nature".

Abascal describes LGTBI activists as "degenerates" in the motion of censure

Australia to Ban Nazi Salute After Riots at Trans Rights March

At least three arrested for the incidents registered on Saturday between protesters for and against the rights of transsexuals

The Australian authorities have announced this Monday that they will ban the Nazi salute in the region of Victoria, the second most populous in the country, as a result of the altercations carried out by ultra-rightists in Melbourne against a march in favor of the rights of the trans collective. Police arrested at least three people for the incidents on Saturday.

The attorney general of the region Victoria, Jaclyn Symes, has indicated that he will propose expanding the law that prohibits the Nazi swastika in the region from 2022 - under prison terms - to also punish the Nazi salute. «We are carefully studying how to do this, in consultation with various groups, and will have more to say on the details of this legislation as we do so.“, the prosecutor specified in a statement released on social networks.

To be approved, the proposal must be ratified by the parliament of this jurisdiction, where both the regional government and the opposition have already shown themselves in favor of the reform. On Saturday, between 20 and 30 Australian neo-Nazis gave the Nazi salute in front of the regional parliament, in the center of Melbourne, where they went with the aim of boycotting a peaceful march in favor of the rights of trans people.

Nazi salute

Australia to Ban Nazi Salute After Riots at Trans Rights Marchextremists of far right verbally clashed with other protesters who were on the scene to defend the rights of trans people, forcing the Victoria Police to form a cordon to avoid further altercations.

Following the incidents, law enforcement arrested at least three people, including a woman who assaulted a police officer. «The behavior we have seen was disgusting and cowardly. It is clear that this symbol has been used to incite hatred, not only against the Jewish people, but also against our community. LGTBIQ + and other minority groups“, condemned the prosecutor.

In addition to neo-Nazis, other small conservative groups also spoke out against transgender rights, including the regional parliamentarian moira deeming, who yesterday was expelled from Liberal Party for joining these protests.

In July 2022, Victoria became the first Australian jurisdiction to ban nazi swastika.

Australia to Ban Nazi Salute After Riots at Trans Rights March

What is Queerbaiting?

Queerbaiting, a misleading claim that takes advantage of the LGTBIQ+ community and its underrepresentation

Billie Eilish, James Franco, Bella Hadid, tATu, Nick Jonas, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Matty Healy, Bud Bunny…the list of artists accused of queerbaiting is endless. Queerbaiting is a technique that uses an LGTBI story or character as a hook in order to capture an audience. LGTBIQ +, although ultimately such a representation is diluted or not real.

It is a marketing strategy very studied that tries not to bother the conservative public (in the end the story/character/suggested relationship is smoke and comes to nothing) and at the same time adds viewers LGTBIQ + attracted by the expectations generated. They take advantage of the low representation of the group and its referents to expand their audience.

Queerbaiting can be interpreted as a form of abuse of people's representations and identities LGTBIQ +.

Queerbaiting at the movies

During the blockbuster promotion, stories or characters are advertised LGTBIQ + which are then removed from the final assembly. In addition, the idea that a gay character is going to star in the film is often sold, but then her homosexuality is diluted. Seceba the fact that there will be a relationship LGTBIQ +, but then removes it from the film in its entirety.

It is widely known that the community LGTBIQ + it has a lack of representation in the media. That is why these figures take advantage of it and create these speculations in order to create expectations within the group.

In the films of The Walt Disney This technique has been used on many occasions, such as in Beauty and the beast o Lightyear..

Recent cases in the world of music

What is Queerbaiting?In 2016, during the promotion of his album, Nick Jonas he began to frequent gay bars and venues, until he drew the attention of the press. When asked if he had had any homosexual experiences at that time he was as open as: “I can't say that I did or didn't".

The release of the new single Billie Eilish, "Lost cause”, was accompanied by a music video and several posts from Instagram which highlights a publication in which Eilish wrote "i love girls”. It could be the singer's exit from the closet, but nothing is further from reality. Weeks later, some photographs appeared with her new boyfriend, known for being homophobic and racist.

Special mention should tATu and all the things they told us that weren't true. The good thing about this pioneering case, although false, was the lesbian visibility that it generated, particularly in Russia.

What is Queerbaiting?

Meloni prohibits homosexual couples from registering their children in the civil registry

Meloni stands up to Brussels: rejects the "European Certificate of Paternity" that required recognizing the paternity of homosexuals in the civil registry

En Italy, there is controversy over a new law of the Government of Giorgia Meloni. The leader of Brothers from Italy He is going to prohibit gay couples from registering their children. This measure has received criticism from the opposition, as it claims that it violates the rights of many Italian families.

In this way, thousands of Same-sex couples will not be able to register their children in the civil registry. Specifically, it refers to children born by assisted fertilization, in the case of lesbians; or by surrogate motherhood abroad, in the case of gays. In principle, this law will not affect adoptions.

This has occurred after the italian senate rejected, last Tuesday, the European Certificate of Paternity, driven by the European Commission. This proposal seeks that the countries of the European Union recognize paternity established and legal in another Member State, including that of families LGTBI. However, this was rejected with the votes of Brothers from Italy, while the entire opposition voted in favor.

On the other hand, this first social policy measure of the Government of Melons it is possible because in Italy there is no legislation that protects the rights of homosexual couples. In the Italian country, the registration of births is the responsibility of the municipalities.

anti-government protests

Meloni prohibits homosexual couples from registering their children in the civil registryLogically, the law has not been well received by many sectors of the population, and protests have already been called, especially in the city of Milanwhere the mayor Giuseppe Sala, has taken it as a personal political battle against the Government.

«This, in my opinion, is a clear step backwards from a political and social point of view, and I put myself in the shoes of those parents in Milan who thought they could count on this possibility“said Sala this Tuesday. Last Monday, he had met with some of those affected by this measure.

«It is a painful and unfair decision. The mayor of Milan had to give in to pressure from the Meloni government. He has informed us that he will block the transcription of foreign birth certificates of children with two fathers and the formation of Italian birth certificates with two mothers, as has been guaranteed in recent years."said the president of the association Rainbow Families, Alessia Crocini.

Meloni prohibits homosexual couples from registering their children in the civil registry

Homophobic aggression in the Fallas of Valencia

Shock in the Tomasos fault due to a brutal homophobic attack on a fallero

La National Police investigate a Homophobic aggression to a young fallero that occurred last morning from Saturday to Sunday next to the Central Park of Valencia, in Russafa, one of the busiest neighborhoods during the celebration of the Fallas.

The event occurred on Saturday night after the young man left the festival that was being held in his commission, the Falla Thomasalong with another young man. As reported by the commission in a brief statement, while the two young people were returning home, four people hurled homophobic insults at them.

They insulted and frightened them. The attacked fled but one of the attackers threw a bottle at their heads and the wounded man fell to the ground losing consciousness. Once on the ground they kicked him and brutally attacked him. They broke his jaw And according to the president of the failure, he is admitted because he has required a surgical operation. This young man has been a fallero of the commission for 2 years.

Ties with the LGTBI flag in the fallas of Valencia

Homophobic aggression in the Fallas of Valencia

Sources of National Police have reported that the attack, which occurred in the street philippinesis being investigated by the Information Brigade Hate Crimes Group.

The president of the failing commission Tomasos-Carles Cervera, Vicente Valero, reports that the entire commission is very affected by this attack and calls for more police presence in the neighborhood of russafa since, according to him, it is not the first incident of this type that has occurred in recent months.

The falleros have decided make some ties with the LGTBI flag, as a show of solidarity and hope for the speedy recovery of the victim.

Institutional support

Mayor Valencia, Joan Ribo, has insured in his account Twitter who expects justice"act firmly with the savages” who have been the protagonists of this aggression, has expressed its "solidarity and esteem with the young man attacked and has indicated that Valencia is "a diverse and free city and will continue to be so. Always".

Also Councilor for Equality from the city, lucia beamud, has shown all the support of the Town hall to failure Thomas and to the victim who has suffered an aggression "for the simple fact of being gay”. Insists that Valencia it's a city"open and diverse and announces that the local government will continue to work so that these behaviors "have no place" in society.

Homophobic aggression in the Fallas of Valencia

Jamie Lee Curtis uses the neuter pronoun to refer to her Oscar

Jamie Lee Curtis: “Out of respect for my daughter Ruby, I refer to the Oscar as she”

The award winner Oscar in category a Best Supporting Actress Jamie Lee Curtis refers to with the pronoun elle (they/them) to their statuette in honor of Ruby Guest, his trans daughter. After dedicating the award to her mother, also an actress Janet Leigh ( "Mom, I just won an Oscar!”, he said in one of the most emotional speeches of the gala), the daughter of Tony Curtis He does not stop celebrating his milestone on social networks, sharing all kinds of images with his precious award.

En 2020When Ruby it was declared trans woman, Curtis spoke to the magazine People on the subject, admitting that the world of representation LGTBIQ + it was something new for her and she was willing to learn about the right words to address your daughter. Time has passed and she continues to show all the love and protection that she is capable of giving.

"It's speaking a new language. It is learning new terminology and words. I'm new to that. I'm not someone who pretends to know much about it. And I'm going to screw it up, I'm going to make mistakes. I would like to try to avoid making big mistakes. You become a little more aware of what you are saying. How are you saying it? You're still wrong, today I was wrong twice. We are humans"He said.

trans visibility

Jamie Lee Curtis uses the neuter pronoun to refer to her Oscar

A couple of years have been enough for him to understand the importance of visibility, Curtis is a Trans ally and activist that gives voice to the collective every time it gets the chance. Granting the statuette the neutral pronoun is just another way to keep talking about the trans fact.

In recent years, he has spoken out on several occasions in favor of the trans laws throughout the world, such as the recently approved trans law in Spain. “I am proud and grateful to be the mother of a trans daughter and send my support to all the trans families in the United States who are being singled out right now by conservative legislatures.", said in a post Instagram a year ago, in which he posed with a trans flag t-shirt and a raised fist.

In an interview with the SER chain, in mid-October of last year, the star of “Everything everywhere at the same time” openly defended her daughter, arguing that there is a lot of hate in the world and that there are a lot of people who want to hurt trans people.

"There are people who want to annihilate her and people like her. The level of hate… as if we hadn't learned from fascism, we hadn't learned what the result of that is: the extermination of human beings. That's terrifying. And that's how we change things. We think about them, we learn about them, and then we use our voices to call attention to them and fight them.".

“Boulder”, by Eva Baltasar, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize

"Boulder" it becomes the first novel written in Catalan to compete for the Booker Prize

The novel "Boulder"of the writer and poet Eva Balthazar (Barcelona, 1978), is one of the shortlisted for the award Booker 2023, becoming the first title in Catalan that opts for the distinction since its creation in the year 2005, as reported Publishing Club. The novel, starring a woman who seeks to be alone, was conceived as the second part of a trilogy on misanthropy that completes "Permafrost" y "Mammoth".

"Boulder" tells the story of a lesbian woman who craves solitude and embarks as a cook on a merchant ship to lead an independent life, without material or emotional ties. She until she falls in love with her and another woman gets her to leave the provisionality and settle in an apartment. Then come the permanent job and a pregnancy that, although desired, makes everything jump into the air.

Published two days before the confinement, the March 12th 2020, the book became a small phenomenon during the months of confinement and surpassed the 20.000 copies sold in Catalan. It has been translated into Spanish, German, English, French, German, Greek and Danish. In Catalan the public Publishing Club and in Spanish Random House.

Translated by Julia Sanches

'Boulder', by Eva Baltasar, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize

He has translated it into English Julia Sanchez, and has been published by the London publisher And Other Stories. The award Booker International is endowed with Libras 50.000 for the winning book, shared by author and translator.

Balthazar and Sanches will compete with twelve other novels by authors such as Laurent Mauvignier, Guadalupe Nettel, Vigdis Hjorth, Andrei Kurkov, Maryse Condé, and Cheong Myeong-Kwan.

In previous editions several Catalan authors who write in Spanish have been finalists, among them Enrique Vila-Matas, Javier Cercas and Juan Goytisolo. The prize list includes authors such as Han Kang, Olga Tokarczuk, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Lydia Davis, Philip Roth, and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

The short list of nominees will be made public on April 18 and the winner will be announced on May 23 in an act in the London Sky Garden . The award seeks the best international work of fiction translated into English, selected from among those that have been published in the United Kingdom or Ireland between May 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023.

 

 

'Boulder', by Eva Baltasar, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize

What is the sexual market of Foals and Mares?

The Mercado de las Yeguas, the wildest sex party in Berlin, breaks into Spain

The Mare Market, also known as Foals and Mares, has found its audience in the Spanish gay community. Are medieval orgies with studs and blind mounts are consolidating their presence in cities like Barcelona. "The format is basically a role-based experience: dominant/sub or stallion/mare. Versatility is not possible in this format, you must choose a role to sign up for.”

The fact that sets it apart from other group sex events is that the mares wear Hood. They don't know who rides them. Have blind sex with the men who want to ride them. «Participation in the meeting implies acceptance of its rules. One of them is that mares cannot refuse a mount, although they can terminate it at any time.«, explain the promoters, who belong to the association Group Sex Barcelona.

The masked men, blinded from all vision, are exposed as if from a medieval cattle fair it was treated Stallions look at their targets, review them, and choose whether or not to engage with them. It is a party of lust with two differentiated roles in which everyone participates of their own free will. «The format revolves around the morbidity of domination/submission recreating a mares market, where they are exhibited and made available to the stallions for riding.", tell the organizers.

Ratings

The sexual market of foals and mares arrives in SpainAfter each sexual relationship, the two parties go to the organizers to rate their experience. The two men "will report to stable boy your assessment of the mount» after each contact. The stable boys will also score the stallions and their riding based on their observations. At the end of the evening, those who have best given and those who have received the best will be chosen. There will be a winning foal and the most compliant mare.

El Mares Market it is an exaltation of homosexual masculine eroticism that does not renounce the primary, the instinctive. Its laws are those of sadomasochism: possess or be possessed, dominate or submit, impose one's own will or cancel it completely. Attendees have an average age of around 40 years.

What about STDs?

To prevent sexually transmitted diseases, from Group Sex emphasize that for the HIV participants have "effective tools such as condoms or PreP (pre-exposure prophylaxis, the HIV preventive pill)”. Likewise, the members of this platform come every three months to undergo a complete analysis of this type of ailments.

The color of the hoods specifies whether or not they want to use a condom: «mares with a white coat are ridden with a condom and mares with a black coat are ridden without a condom«. If a mare wants to, she will only have protected sex. But if you don't want to, if you want what is popularly known as bareback sex, you can do it too.

This practice born in Berlin and exported to other European cities such as amsterdam or london He has reached Barcelona. In the first edition held last spring, there were 80 demands. Half were to be a stallion and the other half, to be a mare and have blind relationships. All very binary, wow...

The sexual market of foals and mares arrives in Spain

 

 

Toñi Moreno to Laura Pausini: "You pushed me out of the closet"

Toñi Moreno grateful to Laura Pausini: "She suddenly took thirty kilos off me"

Toni Moreno has been very grateful for several years Laura Pausini and so he wanted to make it known in his last post of Instagram. They have almost met again five years after the singer mistakenly revealed the presenter's sexual orientation on a television program, something that was vox populi, but had never been confirmed. “We should have done this interview in a closet”, he joked Laura Pausini after greeting Toñi Moreno with two kisses.

“That night he got my phone and apologized since he took an open secret for granted. At that time I was not aware of the scope that this anecdote was going to have in my life ”, ensures Moreno. His recent reunion served to “Thank you, your ingenuity and naturalness helped me free myself from an absurd fear”.

“He took thirty kilos off me at once. I never hid, but I was afraid of not being accepted -the usual-. Sometimes it's you, your own closet. Years later I have met the same teenager who won the Sanremo Festival at just 18 years old. With the same fears and the same illusion. That will be what makes us humble and not lose ourselves in egos, even though sometimes we think we are touching the stars. Thank you, Laura Pausini. Always in my heart", concludes.

Remember that the April 8th 2018, the singer attended the afternoon program of Telecinco where, in the middle of his interview, he asked matter-of-factly: “You like women, don't you?". At that moment the presenter remained silent before the murmurs and applause that awoke on the set, but she quickly got out of the way: "No, wait a minute, I'm going to get out of this mess. I don't like women, I like you"he replied ironically.

outing unconscious

Toñi Moreno to Laura Pausini: "You pushed me out of the closet"

Toñi He later tried to downplay the matter: “I'm already seeing tomorrow's headlines. Laura Pausini takes Toñi Moreno out of the closet, but I dont care", assured the presenter. It was then that the singer apologized for being aware of what she had done: "Sorry I was wrong".

In the reunion last weekend, Moreno recalled his television history with the singer: “The last time we saw each other, we did an interview with you. Do you remember? ”, He began by telling her Toni Moreno to the guest “Of course I remember”, he answered covering his face with his hands. “A question I said: “You have everything I want: you have a beautiful girl, you sing very well, and I will never be able to sing well…'. And I went like this: 'Well, you can keep your husband.' And you, quite naturally, told me: 'Because of course, you like girls''.

What pausiniAfter letting out a nervous laugh, he replied: “Sure, because I thought it was known". "Of course it was known”, assured the presenter, “it was an open secret. What happens is that I had never counted it. Suddenly you took it out. You pushed me out of the closet".

And while they both held hands, Toñi Told him: "I have to thank you. From that moment on, I felt much freer when doing interviews. And I'm not going to be able to sing well in life, I'm still a lesbian, but now I have a girl".

How does the LGTBI-Trans Law affect companies?

New rules for companies by the LGTBI-Trans Law: LGTBI protocol and change to the Equality Plan

The new Law for the real and effective Equality of trans people and for the guarantee of the rights of LGTBI people, known as Trans Law, is in force from Thursday March 2. The new rule affects the companies with more than 50 employees that they must have a specific protocol to avoid discrimination against LGTBI workers.

This protocol must be agreed upon and in operation in a year and must include all the measures and resources offered by the company to guarantee the equality of the LGTBI collective, as well as the measures that the company would put into practice to prevent, detect and act in a case of harassment or violence against these workers. This group will also have priority when benefiting from the active employment policies of the State Public Employment Service (SEPE).

La 04 / 2023 includes among the possible causes of discrimination against employed workers the “sexual orientation and identity", "gender expression" and the "sexual characteristics”. And it establishes a list of violations in terms of equal treatment and non-discrimination based on sexual orientation and identity, gender expression or sexual characteristics, which are classified as minor, serious and very serious depending on the nature of the breached obligation. Fines can go up to $150.000.

Protocol of action in companies

How does the Trans Law affect companies?In his Article 15, details that the set of measures that companies with more than 50 workers must have in order to achieve real and effective equality of people LGTBI, includes an action protocol for addressing harassment or violence against these people. And that for this the measures must be agreed through the Collective negotiation.

On the other hand, it also announces that through the Participation Council of LGTBI peopleand will collect and disseminate the good practice carried out by companies regarding the inclusion of collectives LGBTI and promotion and guarantee of equality and non-discrimination.

The new norm also establishes in its Article 14 a series of measures in the labor field so that public administrations guarantee in their employment policies the right of people not to be discriminated against for reasons provided for in this law. Among these measures, the creation of a badge that allows to recognize companies that stand out for the application of policies of equality and non-discrimination of people LGTBIas well as promoting the progressive implementation of equality indicators that take into account the reality of the collective LGTBI in the public and private sectors.

How does the Trans Law affect companies?

Women opposed to the trans law interrupt an act of Irene Montero on 8M

They interrupt the 8M act with shouts against Irene Montero and the minister invites them to "explain your ideas" on the stage

Several women critical of the Trans Law have interrupted the act Ministry of Equality on 8M with cries against Irene Montero at the moment when he began to speak. After several seconds of tumult, the minister has invited them to go on stage. “If they want to go up, go up. As long as this is a safe space, come up and explain your ideas”, declared the minister.

A group of women have approached the stage and the presenter of the event, Carlota Corredera, has given the microphone to one of them. “I would like to ask the minister what is a woman", has said. Huntsman He replied that "heThe important thing is that because we are women, we have a greater risk of suffering violence and poverty and that is why it is important that we make policies that respect all women”. You haven't answered the question”, his interlocutor replied while the rest of the public shouted “fuera"And"feminism is for everyone".

"What is a woman?"

Women opposed to the trans law interrupt an act of Irene Montero on 8MThe woman has accused the ministry of “misconceptualize what the oppression of women is" why "we are oppressed because of the sex we are born with" and of "deny biological reality” with which “we are born women". "We agree that trans people suffer discrimination, our fight is not against these people, it is with the rights of women”, he added before claiming to the minister that “I heard” to the associations “agendas".

The conversation continued with the intervention of the minister, who told him: "Perhaps what you want to explain to us is that women do not have penises and trans women are not women, but my obligation as a minister is to defend the human rights". "To say that a trans woman is not a woman is to go against human rights”, he assured to applause.

Huntsman has settled: "What threatens women is the lack of sexual education, it is machismo, it is sexual aggressors, who make our homes, our workplaces, our leisure spaces unsafe, it is not trans people, it is macho aggressors, it is the patriarchy. And against this we all have to fight. We put the body all. And long live the struggle of women, of all women!".

Carmen Calvo: Feminism cannot "load" with LGTBI claims

Calvo: uniting feminism with the LGTBI collective is «How to go hand in hand with someone who designs tractors«

The president of the Congressional Equality Commission and former Vice President of the Government, Carmen Calvo, wondered why the feminism "have to load"with the claims"from other groups, such as the LGTBI”. She has done it in the delivery of the III Awards for Equality in the Legal Profession.

"Feminism has always been endorsed that it has to go hand in hand with the demands of other groups (...) We could also choose to go hand in hand with those who design tractors or paint facades”, he expressed, charging again against the Trans Law, in whose approval he abstained. He ordered "end this synergy: we take for granted that an LGTBI man is a feminist and does not have to"He said.

Carmen Calvo: Feminism cannot "load" with LGTBI claimsCalvo has pointed out that the accompaniment that feminism has made to the demands of other collectives “sand choose at certain moments because they are convenient to advance”. He has also stressed that the fate of this fight cannot be "connected” to the collective LGTBI.

According to the former vice president, the existing division is due to issues such as prostitution, the Trans Law or the law of 'only yes is yes' they are due to the “complexity” of the debate. Regarding the existence or not of a new and an old feminism, she has defended the falsity of this idea, which, in her opinion, seeks “dismantle the power of feminism”.

Carla Antonelli's reaction to the controversial statements

The former deputy of PSOE in the Assembly of Madrid Carla Antonelli He did not hesitate to express his thought: “Little friends, did anyone come to believe that they were only going after trans people? One, since she is an older lady, a lady above all, she sees them on the fly… 'Bald: uniting feminism with the LGTB collective is like going hand in hand with someone who designs tractors' ”.

 

Carmen Calvo: Feminism cannot "load" with LGTBI claims

Tennessee limits drag queen shows

In Tennessee performing drag queen shows in the presence of minors will be punished with up to six years in prison

The state of Tennessee has become the first territory of United States in banning shows drag queens in public and in places where they can be seen by minors. It also passed another law that prohibits minors trans access treatments to make the gender transition effective. This is the last of the more than 300 discriminatory bills against the collective LGTBIQ + that have been presented in United States During last year.

The standard defines as "adult cabaret show» those that include go-go dancers, topless, strippers and «male or female impersonators who provide entertainment by appealing to prurient interest«. Republicans argue that drag performances expose minors to inappropriate sexual imagery and spectacles.

From the community LGTBIQ + and from the Democratic benches this new law has been criticized and denounced, because they affirm that the definition is ambiguous enough so that it can be criminalize trans people that they wear clothes other than the gender they were assigned at birth. Furthermore, they claim that This law can increase harassment of members of the collective and drag queens.

Tennessee limits drag queen shows

This new standard could even criminalize pride celebrations in the state, since anyone who walks down the street and a police officer considers that they are not wearing the clothes that correspond to their gender could be charged with a crime and even sent to prison.

Violators of the rule could face $2.500 fines and up to one year in jail. This regulation, which will enter into force on 1 July, is the first of many bills of this type introduced by Republican legislators in various states across the country to have become law.

full scale attack

In a statement, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) denounces that «the dangerous practice» to ban events, spaces and culture LGTBIQ +, which includes the drag performances, is part of alarge scale attack» against the collective and is an attempt to put its members back in the closet.

According to data from this organization, only last year legislators from state congresses from one end of the country to the other presented 315 bills «discriminatory« against people LGTBIQ +, of which 29 were approved and they became law.

trans minors

The Governor of Tennessee, the Republican Bill Lee, has also signed another rule related to the previous one that will prevent minors from accessing gender-affirming medications or surgeries, as states such as Florida or Alabama. This The law prohibits the access of minors to adolescence blockers, hormone replacement therapy and surgeries.

Minors who are currently under this type of treatment have until March 21, 2024 to complete it, after the law goes into effect next 31 July. Thus, minor trans people have one year to carry out the of Transition since continuing with the treatment will be a crime in tennessee.

Paradoxically, last week a journalist confronted the governor at a press conference with a photo of him dressed as a woman during a student party. But that, he replied indignantly, "it's another story«.

Tennessee limits drag queen shows

The Grindr gang falls: they used chemical submission to rob and rape their victims

Active XL, the Grindr profile behind which a gang was hiding to rob and rape men

La National Police has detained four men, Three in Madrid and one in A Coruña, accused of making appointments through contact applications such as Grindr y tinder to rob the homes of homosexuals. They numbed by the method of chemical submission with powerful drugs to their victims who were incapacitated for up to eight hours. The gang is credited with at least eight similar acts, among which stands out the one they committed against a man whom they came to rape.

All the victims were homosexual and lived alone. Three of those arrested, of nationality Colombian, were arrested last week at the airport Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas When they were preparing to catch a flight to return to their country of origin, the fourth member of the organized group was arrested in A Coruña.

The three arrested in Madrid They were provisionally released, something that is incomprehensible due to the high risk of flight as they were arrested when they tried to leave the country. The investigators of the case clarified the facts in record time, since the gang had reached Madrid at the beginning of February and they knew about the purchase of their return tickets for the middle of the month.

Modus operandi of the Grindr band

His method was simple: one of them opened a fake profile on Grindr, and from there he tried to capture potential victims. One of the usernames they used was active XL. Normally the victims were boys between the ages of 22 and 37, also South Americans and of a medium-high purchasing power. After seducing them into agreeing to an in-person appointment, they divided up the victims and acted separately.

crime tourism

Grindr band falls

The agents began to investigate and, after various efforts, found a group of Colombians who had just settled in a tourist apartment in Hortaleza with false documentation. they had come from Colombia expressly to commit a crime. Another of them, according to what the investigators found out, had been in prison for identical acts committed last year.

After the robbery, the perpetrators went to department stores to use the cards: designer clothes, sports equipment and high-end electronics were their main whims. The band would have spent more than 15.000 euros in purchases.

From February 4, when they committed the first criminal act, and until February 20, when they were arrested while trying to change their safe house, they would have attacked at least eight victims attacked in their homes Carabanchel, Moncloa, Retiro, Centro, Usera, Moncloa and Salamanca.

However, the Police believe that there will be more victims who have not yet reported. One of them also stated that she had also been the victim of a sexual assault and realized after waking up from the narcotics that his assailant supplied him. This one, who had escaped to Coruña, has been the only one who has entered pretrial detention.

Grindr band falls

 

Vladimir Kosarevsky, the librarian punished in Russia for refusing to destroy LGTBI books

The librarian who fled Russia after disobeying the order to destroy LGTBI books, already has a place in a refugee apartment in Galicia

Vladimir Kosarevsky is a Russian librarian who ran the public library Anna Akhmatova from Moscow, one of the most important of Moscow. In 2022 Vladimir Putin approved the law against LGTBI propaganda, which went against the content LGTBI and any statement in favor of homosexuality.

The obligation was very clear Kosarevsky, had to put an end to up to 60 books written by homosexual authors or with content LGTBI. Eliminating everything that was part of his freedom, his person, and the lives of many others, was not something Vladimir was willing to go through. “I couldn't follow these orders, I'm gay and destroying LGTBI content is torture", says the librarian.

Faced with this homophobic content law approved by Putin, he decided to make a post on social networks criticizing this measure. “I was harassed every day, my post was filled with hate comments and they called me a traitor.", the Mint. It was then that the network threats began.

Refugee in Galicia

Vladimir Kosarevsky, the librarian punished in Russia for refusing to destroy LGTBI booksvladimir faced jail time or be sent to fight in the invasion of Ukraine. So the January 6 escaped from Moscow with destiny Armenia. There she had to wait for several days to be able to come to Spain. Came to Galicia on January 17 to request international protection. He was taken in by the residence for the homeless of A Coruña Father Rubinos, but he could only stay there for 15 days, the emergency stay stipulated by the protocol.

La NGO Accem has communicated that this Monday it has urgently awarded Kosarevsky a place in a house Vigo, financed in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior. A spokesperson for Access explained that the 39-year-old librarian, “does not meet the requirements of being a person of extreme vulnerability”, those who are being granted places in the flats for refugees in Spain, some resources to which entire families from Ukraine with minors in charge. However, the NGO has dealt with the desperate situation of Kosarevsky "exceptionally".

Now with a flat to stay in, Kosarevsky he still has a long way to go to regularize his life outside Russia. On February 7, the Ferrol Immigration Office gave him an appointment to address his asylum request for May 15, 2025. “They have told us that they will try to expedite it, but that there are many people in a situation of vulnerability even more serious than that of Vladimir", they point out.

Vladimir Kosarevsky, the librarian punished in Russia for refusing to destroy LGTBI books

 

The LGTBI trans law reaches the BOE and will enter into force this Thursday

The Trans Law depathologizes the process of sex change in the registry and introduces several advances for the LGTBI community

El BOE publish this wednesday Trans LGBTI Law, which facilitates gender self-determination to minors promoted by the Ministry of Equality and which will enter into force on March 2.

La Law for the real and effective Equality of trans people and for the guarantee of the rights of LGTBI people recognize the gender self-determination for 16 over years. Any person may change their registered sex without the need to submit medical or psychological reports or undergo hormonal processes. As of this Thursday, it will be enough for anyone who so wishes to request a registration change in writing, without the need to present evidence or witnesses. This decision must be ratified by the applicant three months later, while the Administration will have one more month. That is, the process will last about four months maximum.

Depathologization in the BOE

This law modifies the text approved in 2007 during the socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, which required at least two years of hormone therapy and a medical diagnosis proving gender dysphoria for the registration change.

Se depathologizes thus the registration rectification process of the mention related to sex, to which people over 16 years of age will be able to freely access. The entry into force of this regulation also allows minors between the ages of 14 to 16 years, although in their case they must have the consent of their parents or guardians for their request. In the event that a minor does not have their consent, a judicial defender will be appointed to resolve the conflict.

Children from 12 to 14 years

The trans law bequeaths to the BOE and will enter into force this ThursdayIn addition, those under 12 to 14 years they can change the gender as long as the minor has the authorization of a judge, who will examine his maturity; while minors under 12 years of age cannot change the registry mention of sex, but their namee to adjust it to the gender with which it identifies.

On the contrary, the law inscribed in the BOE it allows that in six months a trans person can request to return to their original sex in the same way that they requested it. In the event that she wanted to modify it for the third time, then she would have to go through a judge, who would decide if there were signs of legal fraud.

For the development and execution of the trans law, Government has a period of one year from its entry into force to dictate the necessary provisions. From Justice have ensured that the Civil Registry is ready to carry out this change in legislation, since these measures are already applied in a similar way in 15 autonomies that have their own Trans Law.

LGBTI rights

These are not the only measures that will come into force, the law also includes measures to guarantee the rights of people LGTBI, such as the parentage of children of lesbian couples without them having to be married.

Furthermore, the single women, lesbians and bisexuals will have access to the Assisted reproduction and diversity training measures will be launched for assistants for the elderly or measures in relation to education and against discrimination of the group (work, social, leisure).

It is also recognized sexile, which is the abandonment of a town or city by a person from the collective due to discrimination or LGBTophobia that suffers in their environment in said place, or those known as conversion therapies.

The trans law bequeaths to the BOE and will enter into force this Thursday

Marvia Malik, Pakistan's first trans news anchor, shot

Journalist Marvia Malik, who had received repeated death threats for her activism, has survived the shooting

Marvia Malik, the first trans presenter of an informative space in Pakistan, was the victim of an attack with a firearm last Thursday. Two individuals shot at Malik when leaving a pharmacy in the city of Lahore, according to a television in the country. The journalist has survived and the authorities have placed police protection at her home.

La activist by trans rights had received repeated threats of death After positioning himself in favor of the Transgender Rights Protection Act Pakistan passed in 2018. This law recognizes the rights of citizens to choose their gender identity and has received criticism from the most conservative sectors of the country, who consider that it opens a door to equal marriage.

El Islamic Ideology Council of Pakistan, the highest religious body in the country, charged against this law in September and ruled that “noor is online with sharia, Islamic law because some of its principles are incompatible with Islamic principless ".

Malik has told the police that he had been receiving death threats for some time and attributes the attack to his activism in favor of people's rights LGTBIQ +. she had fled from Lahore for fear of these threats, but had returned to her city to undergo surgery when she was attacked.

Advocate for trans rights

Marvia Malik, Pakistan's first trans news anchor, shotMalik had broken barriers in an Islamic and conservative country like Pakistan by becoming the first trans woman to present a program on national television Kohenoor. She made her debut presenting a nightly news program in 2018. At that time, she declared that she made him proud to be able to help integrate a community that “lives relegated to darkness and violence in a conservative society”. It was the culmination of a years-long struggle to prove that trans women could excel in any job position.”if they receive opportunities".

The history of Malik It is a story of overcoming and fighting for the rights of transsexuals. His family tortured her for years and forced her to stay locked up at home when she was little. But she managed to study, get away from the family, study journalism and achieve her great dream: to become a news presenter.

More than 1.500 transsexuals They have been victims of rape, assault or intimidation since 2016, according to data from the Pakistani Police.

Marvia Malik, Pakistan's first trans news anchor, shot

Sofía Otero wins the Silver Bear for best performance at the Berlinale

At just 8 years old, Sofía Otero, the star of '20.000 species of bees' captivates the Berlinale jury

Actress Sofia Otero, 9 years old, won this Saturday the Silver Bear for the best leading performance in the Berlinale for the movie "20.000 species of bees”by the Basque director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, in which he gives life to a transgender girl. Paul B. Precious He was one of the winners of the list of winners, winning three awards with "Orlando, my political biographie”, his film debut. took the Encounters Jury Award, a special mention in the category of Best documentary and Teddy Award, which recognizes the best works LGTBIQ +.

clinging to his Silver Bear next to the president of the jury, Kristen Stewart, and visibly excited, Sofia thanked everyone. “To the hairdressers, the jury, the technical team, the make-up artists...","to my father, Fernando Oterothe best in the whole world","to my mother, whom I love madly", to the director, to Naizen (the Basque association of transsexual minors) from which I come, to my mom Auri and my mom Julia","to my aitites Zacarías and Jesus","to my aunt Elena, who later tells me, to my uncles…","and that's it”, he concluded emphatically. Sofia she wiped away her tears and left clinging to her Bear making history. She is the youngest actress to have won the Berlinale.

The origin of "20.000 species of bees”, dates back to 2016, when urresola he was knocked out by the news of the suicide of a young man from 2016 who was seeking hormone treatment. “He left a letter that moved me a lot because it was obviously very sad, but it projected hope towards the generations that came after him, hoping that they would find a more livable and more accepting place for trans children in their situation.”, he recalls in an interview.

Paul B. Preciado wins three awards for “Orlando"

Berlinale Paul B PreciadoThe philosopher and writer presented his debut, “Orlando, my political biographie”, under French production. He won Encounters Special Jury Awarda Special Mention in the category of Best Documentary and Teddy Award, award that recognizes the best work LGTBIQ +.

"ItThis is not the place where I usually be. I am a writer no binary and I'm not usually in the world of cinema, and it's my first film. I am happy and honored, thanks to my producers and to the 25 trans and non-binary people in the film who were on this adventure already Virginia Woolf for writing my biography in 1928 that's the power of fiction finding your story so well written before you were born", He said Valued conducting a review of the work of Woolf to talk about people trans and non binary currently. A free and political essay that destroys genres and gives voice to different visions of the collective trans to attend to what they suffer and feel.

The minor who died in Sallent was in the process of gender change

His twin sister explained in the handwritten note that he was acting out of solidarity with his brother, who asked to be called Ivan.

The two twins who jumped from the balcony of the third floor of his house in Sallent (Barcelona) left handwritten letters about the reasons that led them to do so. The deceased minor had assured close people that he felt identified as masculine and asked to be called Ivan. He also said that he felt misunderstood for his transsexuality. The sister reported that acted in solidarity with the. Both unlinked their parents, and told them not to feel guilty for the decision they had made. At the gates of turning 13, her brother died, and the girl is in a very serious condition, admitted to the hospital in Sabadell.

After the Mossos ruled out that there were indications of criminality, and that the main hypothesis is the suicide, investigations are now focused on determining what was the and motivation which led the two minors to rush from the balcony, where the Catalan police found two chairs on which they would have climbed.

To determine this motivation, the researchers keep all the hypotheses open without closing the door to any cause and, for this, they are tracking the lives of the two twins, originally from Argentina, and residents in Sallent with his parents for about two years.

Teasing with the meaning name of the deceased minor in Sallent

The Mossos investigate all the hypotheses, also that of school bullying, although the one that takes the most force is that of the sexual identity of the deceased minor. It was a reason for ridicule among some colleagues, who called him Ivana, instead of Ivan, his meaning name.

The twin who died after jumping off the balcony in Sallent was in the process of gender change

Department of Education sources and the Town hall denied on Wednesday that there was bullying detected in the Llobregat de Sallent institute, to which the twins went. They were receiving psychological assistance, and in addition the family was on the radar of the social services of the Consistory. Some relatives referred to various media on Wednesday episodes of discrimination suffered by minors because of their origin and their Argentine accent, the country in which they were born.

The case has caused great consternation, with the focus on suicides among young people and minors. Specialists remember that suicide does not usually have a single trigger, but is the result of psychological, biological and social factors that have treatment. People with suicidal behavior can call 024a Suicidal Behavior Hotline launched by the Ministry of Health.

The twin who died after jumping off the balcony in Sallent was in the process of gender change

UN experts applaud the Trans Law

Nine UN experts assure that the Spanish gender self-determination system "guarantees legal certainty"

applause of the ONU a Spain by "new feminist legislationpromoted by the Ministry of Equality. Nine independent experts from United Nations They have published a statement in which they celebrate the abortion and trans laws that were finally approved last Thursday.

The letter points out that the reform of the abortion law “has been adopted as part of an ambitious agenda for the progress of Spanish society” and highlights that it guarantees safe access in state health centers, eliminates the so-called processes of “reflexión" taxes "arbitrarily” and allows all women, too lesbians, bisexuals and singlesto assisted reproductive techniques. In addition, they recognize Spain as "the first European country to legislatively introduce menstrual leave".

The “best practice” for legally recognizing trans people

UN experts applaud the Trans LawIn the letter they also refer to the Trans Law, of which they highlight that it addresses violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics; or that consolidates the egalitarian nature of the rights of the lesbian, bisexual or single mothers, the prohibition of genital mutilation for children intersex, and the adoption of measures to put an end to the practices called 'conversion therapies' perpetrated against people LGTBI.

A law that caused a deep division within feminism and also within the PSOE itself, because a part of both considered that the norm “erase” to women. For UN experts, the law “harmonizes the Spanish system of legal recognition of gender identity through the self determination”, a process that has been recognized by the UN as “best practice”.

In this sense, they point out thatcontrary to some erroneous narratives”, the new system approved in Spain “guarantees legal certainty through the possibility of judicial review, adequately placing the burden of proof on the appellant and on the State, and not on transgender people or other people of a different gender.”. “These laws were adopted through a thoughtful and participatory parliamentary process that took six years, and with the advice of UN experts”, have assured the experts, who have urged other States to follow the example of the Spanish Executive.

Evidence and not prejudice

"Legislative measures such as these address the root causes of widespread human rights violations against women and girls and LGTBI people", they have pointed out, encouraging state and non-state actors to make their "discussions are based on scientific evidence and not on prejudice. The experts have added in the letter in which "these discussions must be shielded from the populist appeal that regressive forces They can see in the exploitation of anti-abortion, anti-education and anti-trans discourses”.

The signatories of this release are Dorothy Estrada-Tanck (President of the UN Human Rights Council), Ivana Radacic (vice president), Elizabeth broderick, Meskerem Geset Techane and Melissa Upreti (of the working group on Discrimination against Women and Girls); Tlaleng Mofokeng (Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health); Farida Shaheed (Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education); Alexandra Xanthaki (Special Rapporteur for Cultural Rights); and Victor Madrigal-Borloz (Independent Expert on Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity).

UN experts applaud the Trans Law

 

ILGA report: 2022 was the most violent year of the decade for the LGTBIQ+ collective

ILGA Europe has published its latest report in which it warns of violence «increasingly planned«

The attacks against LGTBI people have skyrocketed to levels «without precedents«. He latest ILGA-Europe report, reveals that 2022 was the most violent year for the LGTBI collective in the last decade. The growth of hate speech by «politicians, religious leaders, right-wing organizations and media experts» are, according to the organization, the «root» of that «growing phenomenon of anti-LGBTI speech«.

According to the organization, which brings together more than 700 organizations from 54 countries, in the last year news of murders and suicides of people from the group proliferated throughout the region, «and not only in the countries considered most regressive«. «Attacks with the conscious and deliberate intent to kill and injure have risen to unprecedented levels, including two terror attacks on LGBTI bars in Norway and Slovakia, in which four people died and 22 were injured", details the report.

«We have been saying for years that hate speech in all its forms translates into actual physical violence. This year we have seen that violence is increasingly planned and deadly, generating that people LGBTI feel insecure in countries all over Europe“, warned this Monday the executive director of ILGA-Europe, Evelyne Paradis.

The report concludes that although hate speech and its consequences have reached critical levels, national and local courts "are reacting and prosecutions are increasing in several countries." Also noteworthy is the case of Finland and Spainwhere they were madeenormous efforts» for promoting the legal recognition of gender self-determination, «despite fierce oppositionnot".

ILGA analyzes the situation in Spain

In this sense, the 12th edition of the report indicates that, in Spain, the anti-trans rhetoric continued"gaining ground» in 2022, in reaction to the processing of the trans law, recently approved in the Congress of Deputies. He even points to the moment of tension that was experienced in the Cortes when the PSOE registered its amendments to limit the possibility that minors between 14 and 16 years of age can change their sex on the DNI, "something that civil society condemned."

The document, in fact, goes so far as to recall that «for the first time in history» the manifestation of 8-M, International Women's Day, marched divided into two different routes, depending on whether they supported or rejected gender self-determination (something that will also be repeated this year).

Hate crimes increase by 68%

The year 2022 was the most violent of the decade for the LGTBIQ+ collective

ILGA Europe also alert that hate crimes continued to be a «serious problemon Spain last year, and refers to data from the Ministry of Interior, who recorded 466 hate crimes in 2021, a historical record and a considerable increase (68%) compared to the 277 documented in 2020. One in four hate crimes was directed at people from the LGTBI collective.

The report mentions some attacks committed over the past year in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona or Bilbao; remember the murder of Samuel Luis in A Coruña; and the appearance of anti-LGTBI graffiti in some towns in the country.

A State Pact against hate speech

Given these conclusions, the LGTBI+ State Federation and other civil society entities have demanded to promote «urgently" a State Pact against hate speech. «We have a law, but hatred will continue to exist and as long as it continues to be fed from public institutions, LGTBI+ people will continue to suffer aggressions and attacks in the streets", sentenced the president of FELGTB, Uge Sangil.

«En Spain, rise of the far right to public institutions has caused, in organizations such as the Congress of Deputies, we have to listen to speeches that we thought were already relegated to past times, such as that there is an alarming increase in cases of homosexuality and transsexuality, as if being LGTBI+ was a disease, a pandemic", denounced this Monday sangil in a statement from the Federation.

The year 2022 was the most violent of the decade for the LGTBIQ+ collective

The Düsseldorf patient: third case in the world of HIV cure

The so-called Düsseldorf Patient has been without antiretroviral treatment for 4 years, since the virus has not reappeared since the stem cell transplant

According to a study published Monday in the journal nature medicine, the call Dusseldorf patient (Germany) has become the third case in the world confirmed from hiv cure after receiving a stem cell transplant. This finding opens the door to hope for the possibility of having a treatment applicable on a large scale.

After berlin patient, Timothy Ray Brown, as well as the London patient, Adam Castillejo, Magazine Nature just published the third case of HIV remission after a transplant of stem cells. It is a 53-year-old man whose identity has not been disclosed. After suffering from leukemia, he underwent a bone marrow transplant —where the stem cells are found— from a donor with a mutation that prevents the virus from penetrating cells, and he has been without antiretroviral treatment or trace of the virus for four years now.

one in a million

The Düsseldorf patient: third case in the world of HIV cure

According to Javier Martinez-Picado, co-author of the study, it is difficult «find a suitable donor, who is not only compatible for the transplant but also has that mutation (CCR5 Delta32), and in that the probability is very low, about 1 in 1 million approximately",

This route is not applicable on a large scale, but it does show the way to a possible solution for all those infected. In this sense, researchers have been working on this protein for some time. CCR5 Delta32, capable of preventing infection, with the aim of genetically modifying it and implanting it in cells that, once reintroduced into the patient, can rapidly expand to cure the disease.

It is important to add, as this specialist has predicted, that «curing HIV in a timely manner is already a reality and, at a scalable level for the rest of the population, is getting closer«.

The Düsseldorf patient: third case in the world of HIV cure

WorldPride kicks off in Sydney

The Australian city of Sydney hosted the fair this Sunday LGBTI Mardi Gras within the acts of WorldPride

Last Friday the events of the WorldPride in Sydney which will consist of 300 events and will have 500.000 participants, including 78.000 visitors, between February 17 and March 5. Highlights include the classic parade Mardi Gras on February 25 and the pride march by Sydney Harbor Bridge the March 5.

WorldPride is an event created by InterPride, an international organization that coordinates Pride Day organizers in different cities, and the first event was held in Rome in the year 2000. Since then the worldpride has taken place in Jerusalem (2006) London (2012) Toronto (2014) Madrid (2017) New York (2019) Copenhagen-Malmö (2021) and in the future it is planned in Washington (2025) and Amsterdam (2026)

Mardi Gras

WorldPride kicks off in SydneySydney Celebrates Parade LGTBI Mardi Gras since 1978, when a march of this group between the emblematic street Oxford and Hyde Park was violently repressed by the police. Name "Mardi Gras” means in French “fat tuesday” and refers to the day before Ash Wednesday when in the Christian tradition you can still eat meat before Ash Wednesday and Christian Lent, which ends the celebrations of Carnival.

This year is the 45th anniversary of the parade Mardi Gras en Sydney and it is also 5 years since the legalization of marriage of the same sex in Australia, where until 1984 homosexuality was considered a crime in New South Wales, whose capital is Sydney.

WorldPride kicks off in Sydney

 

Where are the 142 gay professional soccer players in Spain?

While being gay remains a taboo in men's soccer, lesbian female soccer players are highly visible

February 19 commemorates the International Day Against Homophobia in Football, In honor to Justin Fashanu, the first soccer player who made his homosexuality publicly known. It was 1990 and the date of his birth was chosen to pay tribute to him. More than three decades have passed and in Spain he has only made his homosexuality public. Jakub Jankto, footballer of the Getafe which is currently on loan to the sporting prague. She did so last week in a statement via. of his social networks and has become an example for other footballers LGTBI. In 33 years, only one Spanish professional player has dared to come out of the closet.

Quite the opposite happens with professional soccer players who are much freer and have no problem showing their affective sexual orientation openly. In Spain there are many examples like Irene Paredes, Melanie Serrano, Ana Romero, Lola Gallardo, Vicky Losada or Mapi Leon.

It is estimated that there are 142 gay professional soccer players in Spain

Where are the 142 gay professional soccer players in Spain?

A study of the Universities of Córdoba and Seville carried out with data from 2016, estimated a figure of 42.000 federated LGBTI players within the world of soccer, of whom “142 they would do it like professionals.” The data is deduced from a study that estimates the European population that forms part of this group at 6%.

"If this hypothesis is fulfilled in Spain, about 1,3 million people LGTBI would practice sports, and 270 of the 4.453 high-level athletes registered with the Higher Sports Council in 2017 would belong to it”, is deduced from the study.

 

Where are the 141 homosexual professional soccer players in Spain?

Trans Law is law

Approved in Congress the Law for the real and effective equality of trans people and for the guarantee of the rights of LGTBI people

El Congress of Deputies has approved this Thursday the Trans Law. The call Law for the real and effective equality of trans people and for the guarantee of the rights of LGTBI people establishes that between the ages of 12 and 14, legal sex change may be possible with judicial endorsement; between 14 and 16, with the consent of the parents, and from that age, without conditions. He Council of Europe or the World Health Organization They have been insisting to the States for a long time so that depathologize the legal sex change process.

The processing of the norm, which enshrines the gender self-determination, has led to a political conflict between the partners of Government that came to seem irreconcilable. Two years after the first draft, the Executive has resolved, at least in practice, its tensions in this regard, but not the feminist movement, which remains deeply divided. This will be the second 8M with two different calls for demonstrations, and the division responds, fundamentally, to the conflict that has arisen around the norm that will definitely go ahead today in the Congress and also of the political dispute that has surrounded it.

Gender self-determination

The new standard recognizes the gender self-determination and develops a series of measures to guarantee the rights of LGTBI people. Among them, the free determination of sex in the Civil Registry by the mere will of the person from the age of 16. The modification of the legal sex will be carried out in two phases: first, a form will be filled out requesting the change and, within a period of three months, the person concerned will appear to ratify their decision. Minors under 12 years of age will not be able to make the registration change, but they can change their name on the DNI and be treated by the desired name. The depathologization of the trans condition, as agreed by the World Health Organization. The rule also includes an article whereby acts of sexist violence committed before the registered sex change cannot be evaded.

In addition, prohibits corrective surgery in intersex infants and children (those whose sex characteristics are unclear at birth) up to 12 years of age. Also bans all conversion therapy that is aimed at modifying orientation, sexual identity or gender expression. The norm obliges to promote the study and research on the health needs required by LGTBI people and especially trans people.

Trans Law is Law

Trans Law is lawThe former deputy of PSOE Carla Antonelli, who in October requested the withdrawal of his party due to the delays in the processing of the trans law, is following the debate this Thursday from the guest rostrum of the plenary hall of the Congress of Deputies has declared "Today is a day where all emotions are on the surface, in this rostrum that has incorporated the memory of the civil rights of this country, such as equal marriage or the gender identity law. Today, after two indescribable years of struggles, where we worked our butt off along the way, we will once again make history with the approval of a fair, necessary and reasonable law, because we were always on the right side of history.".

Emotional words from Irene Montero

“It is a law to expand the opportunities for happiness of many people. Today we are freer knowing that you are happier”, with this reflection the Minister of Equality closed an emotional speech in which he thanked all the entities LGTBIQ + the effort to push this law forward. Huntsman He has recalled some proper names that have made this law possible, such as Boti García, Mar Cambrollé, Carla Antonelli or Ana Valenzuela, to whom she has dedicated some heartfelt words for accompanying her in the fight.

"They told us it was impossible. Today is law. So please with all the pride, with all the happiness, celebrate. Fill the streets of our country with pride. Never again a country without trans people. Never again a country without you, without you and without you. And know that this hand that we have joined and that has made it possible for the Trans and LGTBI Law to become law against all odds will continue to be an outstretched hand, a body to body, back to back to continue conquering rights and making the happiness of others effective. all LGTBI and trans people in all corners of this country. The "Trans Law is law", it is finished Irene Montero.

 

Journalist María Casado announces her first pregnancy

María Casado announces her pregnancy on Valentine's Day: «Martina and I are delighted«

"Let's be moms! The family grows... I'm pregnant! Martina and I are delighted to give you the news on such a special day.”. With this message published this February 14 on her social networks, the journalist and presenter María Casado, 44, has announced that she will become a mother for the first time with her partner, the artist martina di rosso. The couple have been in a relationship for two years.

The presenter has written these words on her Instagram account and has accompanied them with a video in which the couple poses kissing and holding an ultrasound and also images of an ultrasound in which the baby's heartbeat is heard.

For its part, martina di rosso He has made his own post on Instagram. The music producer has written: “Infinite happiness! María and I are going to be moms and I couldn't be more excited. I wanted to shout to the world that the family grows and that everything is better with you. Us always on the same team?".

Immediate reactions on the networks

The presenter María Casado announces her first pregnancy

The reactions to the announcement have been immediate and among the congratulations received by the couple are those of a good handful of celebrities from the world of television and culture: Antonio Banderas, Antonia San Juan, Miguel Ángel Muñoz, José Toledo and Elvira Sastre, among others. “You will be wonderful mommies”, commented, for example, the actress Paula Echevarría. "Enjoy a lot of all the wonderful trip", the singer has recommended to them for her part Pastora Soler.

 

The presenter María Casado announces her first pregnancy