Sumar and Podemos have criticized the approval of an amendment in the PSOE’s political presentation so that “no male person“can participate in sports competitions for women.
Three years ago, at the Federal Congress that the PSOE held in Valencia, the feminist currents opposed to law trans They lost the battle and the Government, then in coalition with Podemos, carried out a law that opened the door to gender self-determination.
In the Congress of Seville the socialists have marked limits, by introducing in their political presentation a amendment presented by the Guadalajara delegation so that “no male person can participate in the categories intended for women.”
It was one of the recurring arguments of the feminist currents opposed to the trans law, which consider that gender self-determination would end up damaging the women’s rights.
“The fight for rights cannot leave anyone behind. “You do not fight against the extreme right with the ideas of the extreme right,” Sumar has warned the socialists from his account on X.
The reaction of the Podemos MEP has also been blunt. Irene Huntsmanpromoter of the trans law as Minister of Equality in the previous government of Peter Sanchez.
“The PSOE has approved in its federal congress to defend the prohibition of the participation of trans women in women’s competitions. This is transphobiatrans women are women, whether they have a penis or a vagina,” she stated in a video posted on X.
Montero, who rejects that this amendment can be presented from a feminist point of view, emphasizes that Human Rights Watch considers that the sex tests carried out by some federations or sports organizations are “degrading practices” based on “arbitrary definitions of femininity and racial stereotypes“and assures that the UN has also considered them unnecessary and humiliating.
He has encouraged anyone who has doubts about this to inform themselves and not to look the other way because “transphobia” in sport, he has warned, generates “violence transphobic“in other areas of life.
In addition to this amendment, and also at the request of feminist groups, The PSOE has agreed to delete the Q+ from the acronym LGTBIQ+to eliminate references to the term queerthe umbrella that covers sexual orientations or gender identities beyond lesbians, gays and transsexuals.
The Q+, according to various socialist provincial delegations, had a meaning “misogynist, ultraliberal and antifeminist“.
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