Everything that goes up comes down. In 2007, under the government of Zapatero, the mixed commission of Women's Rights concluded, after months of study, that prostitution should not be regularized as work, given that it was sexual exploitation linked to trafficking people The practice would not be pursued, or even work would be done to abolish it - it must have seemed to the then minister Rubalcaba that the Spanish had already been restricted from smoking and drinking alcohol while driving and, on top of that, expected them to stop 'going to whores', but trafficking was, obviously, a crime specified in the Penal Code.
The question is whether it will continue to be so. Because the first idea that the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, has launched these days to define the draft anti-trafficking law that she is retrieving from the drawer of the previous mandate is that "it is not a punitive law". As you have indicated, it will serve the victim, protect and reintegrate, give him papers regardless of his cooperation in the criminal investigation, but... is it intended or not intended to be a punitive law with the traffickers and the beneficiaries of the traffic? Or has the minister had a Freudian slip typical of a pro-prostitution feminist?
Politics sometimes feels like a Netflix series doomed to end badly. Although Nordic and some British productions have unexpected twists. Like what the English National Health Service has just done by determining, after a decade of radical transactivism in that country, that children will no longer receive prescriptions for puberty blockers, at least not by the State. They will only be provided to young people who were already participating in clinical research trials.
England has concluded that there is not enough long-term evidence about what happens to children who are given puberty blockers, something they have already seen in Sweden, Norway and Finland. This has required a public consultation, an interim policy and an independent review of England's gender identity services for minors, a department that handled 5,000 cases between 2021 and 2022 alone and will now close. Let's see how many children will have to be given hormones in Spain, by law, before the alarm goes off.
