Marta Ostiz
Madrid (EFE) m.
Well-known faces linked to activism, such as the former deputy in the Madrid Assembly Carla Antonelli or the president of the Trans Platform Federation, Mar Cambrollé, appear on the Madrid lists, but, although less in the media, others have also taken the step from activism to policy.
One of them, Emma Colao, even aspires to preside over the Government of the Canary Islands as head of the list of Reunir Canarias Sostenible, a new left-wing formation on the islands.
This candidate, who has suffered the misunderstanding of many since she has not carried out the transition of sex, affirms that trans people have had to fight “three times more than the others” and she is convinced that “they are not going to go back to the closets”. “It is the beginning of what is to come,” she says in an interview with EFE.
Raffaela Corrales, in Castilla-La Mancha
On the list of United We Can to the Courts of Castilla-la Mancha is Raffaella Corrales, trans activist and councilor of Tórtola de Henares, a municipality of Guadalajara with 1,300 inhabitants.
Corrales made headlines in March 2021 when she went on a hunger strike along with other activists due to the delay in processing the trans law. She has stated that she wants to work to “bring different sensibilities to the institutions” and achieve “a more feminist and inclusive region.”
In the Community of Madrid, Carla Antonelli and Jimena González appear at numbers 5 and 45, respectively, on the Más Madrid list.
Antonelli, who became the first trans deputy in Spain in 2011, was a PSOE parliamentarian in the Madrid Assembly until 2021 and in October last year she left the party in protest at the delay in processing the law trans.
He has shown his support for Yolanda Díaz’s political project in the debut of his candidacy with Sumar and days later he signed as number five on the electoral list of Más Madrid for the May 28 elections.
In her day, Antonelli had to claim the protection of the Assembly after a Vox deputy referred to her as “the representative” of the PSOE, a problem similar to that experienced by Jimena González, number 45 on the same list.
In March of this year González, spokesperson for Más Madrid in the Chamberí district, denounced that in the district plenary session the Vox spokesman, Álvaro Belda, insulted her by calling her ‘Don Jaime’, alluding to the name he used before his transition. gender, which is why the Vox vocal was expelled from the session.
Mar Cambrollé, for her part, closes the list of Podemos to the Madrid City Council headed by Roberto Sotomayor. Activist for the rights of trans people in Andalusia, she has participated in movements for LGTBI rights since the years of the Franco dictatorship.
Kim Pérez, in Granada United
In Andalusia, Kim Pérez, a teacher and historic activist, is number 26 on the United Granada list for municipal elections, at 82 years old.
In September of last year, she received the medal for the promotion of equality values awarded by the Ministry of Irene Montero, in an act in which she claimed equality in the face of the strangeness and concern generated by the group.
Twenty years ago she became the first transsexual to be part of an electoral candidacy in Spain, occupying number 17 on the list that IU then presented to the Granada City Council.
For years he presided over the Andalusian Gender Identity Association, an organization thanks to which it was possible for this community to become the first Spanish community in 1999 to include in its catalog of health benefits the complete process of genital sex reassignment treatment and surgery. .