Jose Maria Nunez: «We ask the country to take to the streets again, as it did with equal marriage«
GAYLES.TV.- While the call Trans Law remains paralyzed within the Government coalition due to internal discrepancies, the collectives LGTB + They have announced demonstrations in the streets of all Spain to demand its final implementation, claim their rights and raise awareness among citizens that it is urgent to end the structural discrimination they suffer. The initiative is motivated by the continuous blockages of the PSOE, first to the draft of the Ministry of Equality and recently when presenting at the Congress by ERC, the CUP, More Country and Commitments.
La State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Trans and Bisexuals (Felgtb), the Triangle Foundation and Chrysallis (Association of Families of Trans Minors) They have presented a campaign with which they will travel all over the country demonstrating with the slogan «We demand trans equality«. According to the president of the Felgtb, Uge Sangil, aim to «convince sectors of the PSOE that continue to have doubts and reluctance about the importance of the rights of trans people«.
«Faced with the blockade, we have no other options than to mobilize in the street. We ask the country to take to the streets again, as it did with equal marriage, to tell our Government that we believe and want equality«, Has asserted the president of the Triangle Foundation, José María Núñez, which has asked the collective LGTB + and feminists who join the cause.
These mobilizations began last Tuesday, April 6 on the island of La Palma -where he President of the Cabildo signed the trans flag as an act of support for these demands - and they will vary depending on the different territories: there will be concentrations and institutional events. The campaign will conclude in Madrid the week of Pride.
Gender self-determination
From Chrysallis, Ana Valenzuela has stressed that free gender self-determination - also for minors - is a "red line" for these groups and has regretted that the rights of trans people are addressed from "ignorance, fear and prejudice»Because it legitimizes hate speech and transphobia.
sangil has recognized that self-determination is the «main stumbling block»In the negotiation of the Trans Law and that the socialists allege that the law will go ahead but with legal certainty. Faced with this argument Valenzuela has stated that gender self-determination is a question «more of political will than of legal certainty«.
The groups reject that a third person has to prove the identity of a trans person for the change of sex and name in the registry, as according to some leaks proposed by the PSOE because it represents a protection and «putting trans people on suspicion of fraud«.
Entities mobilize in Catalonia
The entities of the Xarxa LGBTI of Catalonia reject the proposals of the first vice presidency of the Government and they demand that it guarantee legal and social equality for trans people. They argue that «put trans people at risk and align themselves with the discourses historically used by the far right«. The proposals of PSOE leaked on April 3 violate the right to gender self-determination as recognized by numerous official bodies such as the Council of Europe or European Court of Human Rights.
For this reason, Chrysallis, supported by Xarxa LGBTI of Catalonia, has issued a press release in which it requires the PSOE to rectify its positioning by aligning itself with what the European Commission and what he proposed to Congress of Deputies in 2017 and that it does not use proposals based on the worst European laws, causing a setback of the current legal framework. Also, remember that «in the Spanish state, 14 communities they already recognize the right to gender identity and depathologize transsexualismd »and that since October 2018 it is already possible to change the name of trans people.
Sources: EFE, Public, ElDiario.es, RTVE
Photographer: Europe Press, RTVE
