8-M is approaching and the refrain returns that feminism is more divided than ever and that there will be two separate demonstrations. But nothing separate. The more the vital transgender project designed by the Government of Spain advances, the clearer it is that these marches are going to be diametrically opposed: in one will be those who advocate the feminist agenda and, in the other, those who defend transactivism, cuirismo and a law that was already born misogynistic and homophobic, with forgiveness for all the charges that have sworn this flag.
Being a feminist is not an intimate experience. It cannot be emotional, experiential and uncritical. The philosopher Alicia Miyares – a member of the PSOE, in case anyone doubts – says this to remember that women's rights do not constitute an agenda that can be dynamited to adapt it to everyone's expectations. Support for the diversity and plurality of feminisms has proven to be very unfeminist. One only has to look at the consequences of gender self-determination (which actually refers to sex self-determination): anyone can simply declare themselves a woman and claim access to women's locker rooms or women's sports categories, to give two examples. The helplessness is total and absolute. And filing a complaint means being literally crushed by the weight of the law, accused of at least a hate crime.
Misinformation and the lack of a serious debate about what it means to legislate based on an act of faith – a debate that has been replaced by a “pro-rights” propaganda bombardment that no one dares to question – will make one more year appear like a Kelly's old-fashioned violent statements to those in this country who work for real emancipation of women. People who fight against sexist violence in all its aspects, including sexual exploitation (prostitution) and reproductive exploitation (wombs for rent), and who find themselves accused of not having understood that what makes a woman is the dress. Or not even that!
A clue for those who have doubts about which of the demonstrations is the feminist one: wherever they sing Zorra, that's not it.
