More than 100 LGTBIQ+ groups support the Trans Memory Law, and urge parliamentary groups not to hinder its passage
collective LGTBIQ + from the various territories of the State and the main memorial organizations have signed a letter in which they express their support for the registration, on November 19, in the Congress on the Proposed Law of Memory and Justice for the reparation of trans and LGTBIQ+ people for reasons of identity and/or gender expression or sexual orientation, which was signed by Sumar, ERC, EH Bildu, Podemos, Junts and BNG and promoted by Trans Platform Federation.
In a press release, they recall that the modification in 1954, by the dictator Francisco Franco, Law of Vagrants and Crooks, laid the groundwork for the persecution, stigma and deprivation of liberty of people of sexual dissidence. In 1970, it was replaced by the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (LPRS), through the application of both repressive laws, they were imprisoned and exiled around 5.000 people whose orientation "did not conform to the heteronorm» and by people who are gender diverse or non-conforming to the gender assigned at birth.
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Two specific prisons were enabled, Badajoz and Huelva, and modules were allocated in Carabanchel, a model for Barcelona and Valencia. Also in Tefia, Fuerteventura, a was established concentration camp only for people of sexual dissidence, where they were tortured, malnourished and forced into hard labor. Lesbian women were confined in the fascist institution Women's Patronage, where they suffered the same fate as single mothers, republican women, anarchists and communists.
The organization and struggle of the collective LGTBIQ + in 1970, resulted in the First mobilization in 1977, 1978 being the year of demonstrations in different territories. This achieved that the December 26th 1978, the UCD Government, decided to exclude the acts of "homosexuality» of the LPRS.
However, the figure of "public scandal" remained in force until 1988, regulated in article 431 of the Penal Code which allowed fines and detentions in police stations for up to a total of 72 hours, considering it a public scandal to wear clothes that were not appropriate for the gender assigned at birth or publicly display affection between people of the same sex.
«It's time for repairs»
«Imprisonments, banishments, torture, psychiatric abuse and for trans people, the post-Franco period was a very long shadow of the dictatorship. There was never a public policy to remove trans women from the corners, who were forced to engage in prostitution as their only means of support. The only time they were removed from the corners, through police raids, was in 1982, coinciding with the World Cup, to clean the streets of undesirable people.", he declares Mar Cambrollé, President of the Trans Platform Federation.
«It is time for reparation, among the requests that the norm contemplates, a lifetime economic benefit is requested, equivalent to the minimum pension of a retired person without family burdens, signage and location of LGTBIQ+ memory spaces, a budget item for the preservation and digitalization of the graphic and audiovisual documentation archive, among other measures.«, continues Cambrollé.
«Without memory there is no democracy, without dignity there is no justice and very few victims remain alive.", concludes the president of the Federation Trans Platform.
