Noelia Lopez |
Madrid (EFE) reform of trans laws.
Withdrawn this Tuesday by order of the Central Electoral Board, the canvas hung by Vox in a central building in Madrid, where a hand with a Spanish bracelet threw a feminist logo or the LGTBI flag into the trash can, has summarized several of the issues of the pre-campaign and has loudly sounded alarm bells among activists.
“They are not going to make us disappear. We will not take a step back. Against hate, visible and proud,” said the president of the LGTBI+ State Federation, Uge Sangil, when photographing herself in front of the controversial canvas, hoisting the rainbow flag.
“Those of us who have had to fight for our rights are not going to take any step back,” the Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, guaranteed on Tuesday.
Without a flag and with the Trans Law in question
With her newly released absolute majority, Isabel Día Ayuso announced in her inauguration speech as president of the Madrid community that she will reform the Madrid trans law as promised to Vox, which reproached the popular for criticizing the law promoted by the Ministry of Equality and maintain similar regional regulations.
The rejection of the law that allows changing sex in the registry from the age of 16 without conditions and with the endorsement of the parents from the age of 14 unites popular and Vox, whose appeals have already been admitted for processing by the Constitutional Court.
In various town halls, their alliance has also led to the removal of the rainbow flag from the town hall balconies, but the PP has decided to distance itself and illuminate its national headquarters on Génova street in Madrid for the first time with LGTBI colors.
He has also hung the flag in municipalities where he governs alone, such as Valencia or Logroño, but the pacts have marked the pace of other administrations.
A “consensus” has not been possible, admitted the mayor of Toledo, the popular Carlos Velázquez, who seized the command rod from the PSOE in the Castilian-La Mancha capital with the support of Vox.
Brandishing the Supreme Court ruling that established that unofficial flags cannot be used outside public buildings, José Luis Martínez Almeida already made that decision years ago in Madrid, but this Wednesday he will once again illuminate the façade of the city hall with LGTBI colors. the capital and the Cibeles fountain.
In Náquera, the first Valencian municipality governed by Vox thanks to the support of the PP, the government pact included the removal of LGTBI flags from official buildings. Today various associations have called a demonstration in the town with the motto “Proud Náquera”
Shoemaker, icon of pride for the left
Faced with Vox, the figure of former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has become iconic for the left.
With Pedro Sánchez and his minister Irene Montero still further apart every day, Zapatero’s voice opens the video with which the leader of the PSOE and president of the Government has congratulated Pride and the Ministry of Equality presented him with one of its Rainbow awards on Tuesday , with which it recognizes the work of individuals and entities in favor of the rights of the LGTBI collective.
It was during his tenure that Spain was at the forefront by recognizing the right to marriage between people of the same sex and when the gender identity law was also approved, which allowed people of legal age to change their sex in the registry with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria and two years of treatment, the forerunner of the current trans law.
From Hungary to Italy
LGTBI associations and activists do not hide their concern at the entry of Vox into different administrations and warn of the involution that is already taking place in countries governed by far-right parties, such as Hungary or Italy, where the authorities have begun an offensive to prevent registration of children of homosexual couples.
The State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Trans, Bisexuals, Intersexuals and more (FELGTBI+) is committed to mobilization.
“To protect the rights that we have already achieved and fight for those that remain, we must fill the streets and the polls with Pride for the rights of all, everyone and everyone. So that it is not our last Pride. Let’s take to the streets. Vote with pride ”, she has requested through social networks.
The state demonstration of Pride 2023 will take place this Saturday, July 1 in Madrid and it is expected to be massive. The Government delegation, which has designed a special security device, predicts one million attendees, 300,000 more than in 2022.