More than 70 trans activists, family members and allies have announced an indefinite hunger strike to demand that the Trans Law be registered in Congress
GAYLES.TV.- Before him repeated blocking of the eraser of a draft law prepared by the Ministry of Equality directed Irene Montero, groups of trans people and their families have become fed up. Today, wednesday Winners will be announced in March, 70 people have started an indefinite hunger strike to ask for the registration of the Trans Law in the Congress of Deputies.
«This blocking situation is not only delaying full equality for trans people, but it has also generated a very aggressive debate towards trans people that is translating into high degrees of stress and harassment for the trans population, it is not that we have Hurry, we have been waiting for the 42 years of democracy and every minute that passes is late«, Declares the activist Mar Cambrollé, President of the Trans Platform. "Putting conditions on self-determination and depathologization is antagonistic to both principles, principles that are inalienable and that we will defend with our lives if necessary.", Add.
Rights of trans minors
Natalia Aventin, president of Euphoria Trans-Allied Families, has affected trans minors, a vulnerable group to which the State «must protect and not continue to delay the abuse they suffer by not recognizing their identity or protecting and guaranteeing the free development of their personality«, And has stressed that families will not give up their efforts to fight for the rights of trans people.
From the trans collectives they assure that the draft of the Ministry it is already a law of minimums «to which it is not possible to diminish, but to extend»And they reaffirm that they will not accept«no type of condition precedent to the exercise of the right to self-determination of identity«. «This is an inalienable red line that is in line with European standards and the autonomous laws approved in 11 communities of the Spanish State«, They remember. Likewise, they distrust the will of the majority partner of the Government and foresee that a procedure by the Executive, «if it happens, it will be continually boycotted by it«.
Due to the blockade and the lack of political will of the PSOE, they request, that United We can next to the investiture block, make a joint record of the trans law text, as a Proposition of Law, so that it reaches the plenary session of Congress, for its debate and processing, a fact that will end the hunger strike.
Sources: Public,
Photographer: Alberto Ortega (The Voice of Galícia)
