Milei at the World Economic Forum in Davos: «When I say abuse it is not a euphemism, gender ideology constitutes child abuse«
In a space that was supposed to be for talking about economics, the President of Argentina, Javier Milei, attacked the population again LGTBIQ+ and feminismThis Thursday, in his second appearance as Argentine president in the Davos World Economic Forum, a Switzerland, brought out his hatred against human diversity.
He stigmatized the sexual dissidence taking up the case of an American homosexual couple who were sentenced last December to 100 years in prison for abusing their two adopted children.Just a few weeks ago, the case of two homosexual Americans who, waving the flag of sexual diversity, were sentenced to 100 years in prison for abusing and filming their adopted children for more than two years, made headlines around the world. I want to be clear that when I say abuse, it is not a euphemism, because in its most extreme versions Gender ideology is simply child abuse. They are pedophiles., therefore, I want to know who supports such behavior."He said, taking an extreme case as a standard for the group.
Against everything trans
milei He fiercely attacked people tranny stating: «From these forums the LGBT agenda is promoted, wanting to impose on us that women are men and men are women only if they perceive themselves as such, and they say nothing about when a man dresses up as a woman and kills his rival in a boxing ring or when a prisoner claims to be a woman and ends up raping every woman he comes across in prison.
He also charged against the trans childhoods: "They are irreversibly damaging healthy children through hormone treatments and mutilations, as if a child under five could consent to such a thing. And if it turns out that their family does not agree, there will always be state agents ready to intercede in favour of what they call the best interests of the child. Believe me, the scandalous experiments that are carried out today in the name of this criminal ideology will be condemned and compared to those that occurred during the darkest periods of our history. And covering this multitude of abject practices is the eternal victimhood always ready to fire accusations of homophobia or transphobia and other inventions whose sole purpose is to try to silence those who denounce this scandal in which national and international authorities are complicit."
Rise of hate speech
His statements are framed in a context of the rise of the right and far right on a global scale. Last Monday, in his investiture speech as the new president of United States –an event to which milei was invited–, Donald Trump He charged against the population LGTBIQ +, migrants and other vulnerable groups. Trump, from that day on, made it a state policy not to recognize sexual identities outside the binarism of masculine and feminine gender.
On Tuesday, the bishop Marianne Edgar Budde He confronted the magnate in his sermon during a prayer attended by him and part of his cabinet, in the Washington National Cathedral. "In the name of God, I ask that you be merciful to the people who are now afraid in our country. Democratic, Republican, and independent families have gay, lesbian, and transgender children, some of whom fear for their lives.", he asked Bidder.
The 'woke' attack
In the run-up to the investiture of Trump, Milei He had already made public his speech aligned with Trumpism. At an event he told the press that he hoped the American president would be "The leader everyone is waiting for, fighting against the woke trash that is polluting the world«. Woke It is a term coined in the United States in 1960 during the anti-racial struggle, but which the right now uses in a derogatory way against progressive thought.
En Argentina, the discourse against human rights, which has strongly permeated the Government of La Libertad Avanza, leaves historically vulnerable populations more unprotected. Last June, Milei eliminated the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity, on which public policies in favor of women and the population depended LGTBIQ +.
900 trans people fired
In their attacks on feminism and sexual diversityThe government has also fired at least 900 people who had been hired under the Transvestite Trans Labor Quota Law, according to estimates by activists. This is a Pioneering law in Argentina, which was approved in 2021 and represents an opportunity for entry into the formal labor market for a group whose life expectancy in Latin America does not exceed 40 years.
The libertarian narrative that feminism seeks to "privileges» contradicts the results of the National Institute of Statistics and Census, which indicates that the salary that women receive in Argentina is a 27% lower that of men. Women, unlike men, spend more time on unpaid care tasks and domestic work. In addition, between January and October 2024, according to the organization La Casa de Encuentro, there were 275 feminicides. This term refers to women murdered because of their status as women. Davos Milei He even questioned the criminal definition of femicide.
Following the infamous statements of milei In less than 48 hours, thousands of people gathered in Parque Lezama against hate in an assembly that agreed to call a Federal March of Antifascist and Antiracist Pride next Saturday, February 1, an action that will be replicated in dozens of cities across the country.
