Podemos MEP and former Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has responded to the PSOE’s decision to eliminate the acronym “Q+” from LGTBI and to call for a ban on the participation of trans women in women’s sports categories, describing it as “transphobia.”
«A trans woman is a woman. The rest is transphobia, even if the PSOE says so,” Montero expressed in a message on the social network
Shortly after, she published a longer video in which she assured that “trans women are women, whether they have a penis or a vagina” and that the rights of trans people “are Human Rights.” “Everything else is neither classic feminism nor left-wing, it is pure transphobia,” she added.
Montero has warned that “this transphobia in sport” then serves as an excuse for it to be applied “in other areas of life” and generates suffering, pain, discrimination and violence for trans people.
The former minister’s message immediately sparked the reaction of the Alliance against the Erasure of Women, a network made up of feminists opposed to eliminating the sex category from legislation and statistics. «What you are defending is that a male, with competitive advantages derived from having a body developed with testosterone, keep the records, medals and podiums of women,” they said in their reply on the social network X.
«It’s called dirty play. Or tongo, if you prefer. Women’s rights are human rights,” this platform replied to Irene Montero.
Meanwhile, the Federation of trans groups, Trans Platform, has shown its “rejection and indignation” at the amendment. They criticize that the PSOE “through its large sector of women opposed to the rights of trans people has already started a criminal campaign of misinformation, hoaxes and stigmatization of the lives of trans people in its attempt to undermine the Trans Law”, in words of Mar Cambrollé, president of this entity.
A position of the classic feminism of the PSOE
The Plenary of the 41st Federal Congress of the PSOE has approved an amendment from one of the feminist currents within the party to modify its framework presentation and eliminate the acronym ‘Q+’ from the references that were made within this text to the LGTBI group, as confirmed to Europa Press sources present at the Plenary.
Specifically, the initial initiative proposed by the national leadership of the PSOE made several references to LGTBIQ+ people, incorporating the acronym Q+, which refers to queer people and other identities and orientations.
However, a feminist current of the PSOE has managed to approve its amendment so that in the final ideology that comes out of this 41st Socialist Federal Congress the acronym ‘Q+’ is eliminated, thus returning to what was included in the text of the previous Congress.
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