EDITORIAL.- We tend to settle in the complaint, it is what touches, because it is already known that who does not cry does not breastfeed, but it is that the complaint moves away and from well-born it is to be grateful. Ok, now that we have managed to put 3 sayings in a paragraph, let's go to what we want to explain.
The issue is that in this past week there have been two events at the political level that imply important advances for the collective LGTBI and since the political class is always blamed for what it does not do, it is fair to recognize
s gestures and advances when they occur.
The first has to do with the issue of assisted reproduction of lesbians. And is that the new Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya has engaged in a meeting with representatives of the Observatori against Homophobia a guarantee free assisted reproduction to lesbian women. And that is a very important advance if we take into account that in some countries access to TRA (assisted reproduction techniques) is limited precisely to single women and especially lesbians. Not to mention the impressive expense involved in resorting to private treatments when, obviously, nobody can guarantee that a pregnancy will occur at the first attempt.
The agreement is one of the points contemplated by the Social Shock Plan Driven by Junts Pel Sí and CUP and took shape between the president of the Observatory against Homophobia, Eugeni Rodríguez and the current director general of Equality and responsible for the LBTBI policies, Mireia Mata.
At the same meeting we discussed two important issues covered in the Law against the LGTB phobia and how it is implemented. This is on the one hand the right to reassignment of sex does not require the justification of a clinical diagnosis that certifies gender dysphoria. And it was also an urgent need to address the issue of bullying and to act effectively against bullying.
The other great news of the week has been the decision communicated by the Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, not allow councilors who refuse to marry same-sex couples to celebrate weddings. In the official statement made at the session of the LGTBI Council, he affirms that "The City Council formally stipulates that the councilors who have any reservations to celebrate this type of wedding do not have the capacity to celebrate marriages in any case. " In the 2014 year there was a case in which the PP councilman of the City Council Óscar Ramírez refused to marry a lesbian couple alleging conscientious objection The girls denounced the case to the Síndic de Greuges (defender of the people) who described what happened as a violation of LGTBI rights and told the City Council that this situation should not happen again.
After all, holding marriages is the power of the mayor and if the councilors can do it is because she delegates their duties, so if you decide not to do so under certain conditions is in full right.
But both in one case and in the other, it becomes clear that it DOES matter who we vote for, that NOT all policies or all parties take us into account in the same way and that we should ALWAYS remember this kind of thing when we go to deposit our vote in an urn.
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