to hosts This is how the Spanish left is dealing with the successive extensions, now five, of the term for amendments to the trans law and the guarantee of LGTBI rights…xyz. The successive extensions for weekly periods of the period of amendments to the text, which has been processed by the urgent route, has set off the alarms in United We Can. The purple ones fear that the text prepared by Irene Montero and her ministry of cultural agitation suffers adulterations that limit its original ambition and distance it from its objective: that Spaniards enter the metaverse of identity from the age of 12. Every day it is more unlikely that the law will enter into force before the end of 2022, as the Minister for Equality has repeatedly promised.
Classic feminism linked to the PSOE – with former minister Carmen Calvo as a battering ram in the presidency of the Equality Commission – feels like a death threat that the text is approved in its current terms. The war cry is that “being a woman is not a feeling”. And what derives from it is the fear that this law will erase with a stroke of the pen the meaning of the current legislation in favor of women, to the extent that any man could be one overnight with no other condition than his own. his decision. It has been the mobilization of this group –but not only– that has pushed the Socialists to extend the processing period with the aim of trying to reconcile the different positions that nest within the formation and also –rather above all– among voters. For starters, the historic socialist militant Carla Antonelli has already broken her card and accused her former classmates of betraying the trans collective. For her part, from the left wing of the Executive, Yolanda Díaz has appealed to Pedro Sánchez to take action on the matter and enforce his promise not to put buts to what was promised. But the tidal wave in the PSOE on account of this matter is not minor. Because if the concept of gender self-determination that the initiative incorporates raises blisters in feminism, the fact that it also contemplates it for minors from the age of 12 has made opposition to the norm generalized and increased the number of groups that consider it , without nuances, a nonsense.
The majority opinion in the PSOE –even among those who remain silent– is that the law is nonsense and that it is one thing to have a couple of books by Judith Butler in the personal library at home to give them a high place on the subject, and it is quite another to make reality through laws all that essay literature that argues that to be a man, a woman or neither one thing nor the other, it is enough to verbalize it. But the mobilization from the left itself has added more arguments. The most effective have been those that refer to children for the irreversibility of depending on what decisions are made at too early ages. It appeals to the problems that are occurring in the countries that were pioneers in approving laws similar to this one –Finland, Sweden, the United Kingdom– and that are now considering undoing the path trodden by the suffering already accredited among the now adults to whom that access to sex change therapies was facilitated as children or adolescents.
Spanish society as a whole is resistant to this law. The feeling of the social and electoral body of the country is light years away from the text that the Podemitas have written. If it is finally approved under the current terms, the countdown will begin on the day of its entry into force for its future repeal, once any other majority comes to power. For this reason, and for the benefit of the trans community itself, it would be better to avoid this coming and going. That your honorable Members make an effort to accommodate the law to a greater consensus that includes realities as simple as, for example, that I, not to mention anyone else, cannot be a woman with my current body, even if I start shouting it at every squares not one, but a million times plus one.
