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?"
The 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!".
