GAYLES.TV.- We love to bring to this space information of those that reveal that great changes are often caused by small individual gestures, by personal actions that end up having an impact on society and transforming the reality of everyone. Mahatma Gandhi He summed it up in one great phrase: "If you want to change the world,
Biate yourself. "
And that's what a transsexual woman has achieved with her gesture in one of the most prestigious sports clubs in Pamplona, the Club Larraina also known as Larraina Sports Field. Founded in 1932, its statutes collected until yesterday that the membership as a member was reserved exclusively for varones. It is what is known as "a club of gentlemen", an adaptation of the gentlemans club British that proliferated in London in the eighteenth century as the cover of gambling venues in a period when bets were forbidden. By legalizing the game, they became centers where the partners shared a private space away from the feminine glances. In Spain they have followed that model entities of all kinds such as the Basque gastronomic societies, the Círculo del Liceo in Barcelona or the Equestrian Circle, but the vast majority have women associated today.
This story goes back to the year 2007 and has its origin in a play orchestrated by a group of partners who wanted to modify the statutes so that Larraina opened its doors to women. A transsexual woman, taking advantage of her male ID, joined the Club exclusively for men and her first action consisted of walking in a bikini by the pool. The board of directors that at that time presided José Ignacio Oroz, decreed the immediate expulsion arguing through the mouth of its president that "breaches a statute and it is not elegant that I say that statute fails."
The uproar that organized the expulsion came into effect and several political parties called for measures to avoid gender exclusion. The process was slow, but already in the 2012 it was accepted that the women could use the facilities but not to associate. The election of a new board chaired by Carlos Rodríguez Espinosa It has made it possible for women to be full members since yesterday, November 15. This has been decided by 70% of the votes that support the change of the statutes of the historic Pamplona club.
Hopefully, the generations of women who, starting today, will be able to enjoy the facilities of the Larraina Club, keep in their memory that transsexual woman who had the courage to walk among her knights in her bikini pride on the edge of a swimming pool.
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