Also In Spain, biopolitical issues have become major topics and are playing a decisive role in the electoral campaign.
In view of the general elections on 23 July there is already discussion of change the laws on gender identity, less than 6 months after the approval of the Ley Trans wanted by former minister Irene Montero of Podemos, almost extinct political formation at the last local elections.
The first to speak about it was the newly elected president of the Madrid region, Isabel Díaz Ayuso of the Popular Party (Spain's main centre-right party), which claimed to voler to reform the regional law on gender self-determination in his investiture speech. A move that rides on the general dissatisfaction with gender self-determination (self ID) i.e. the possibility of freely changing one's sex on documents with a simple self-declaration, without any medical diagnosis.
The infiltration of the ideology of gender identity into Spanish legislation had begun quietly, at the level of regional laws, and then culminated with theabsurd Ley Trans state that provides for free gender self-determination from the age of 14 (from 12 to 14 a judge's ruling is required) and the right to change one's name (social transition) from the age of 12.
Irene Montero's law also grants the possibility to change one's mind and return to one's sex of origin after six months, clause that could allow men to identify themselves as women in order to escape justice, particularly in cases of domestic violence. Furthermore, prohibits so-called 'conversion therapies'. -preventing therapists from helping especially minors with psychological therapies and instead pushing towards a hasty medicalisation.
Finally, the Ley Trans opens up access to medically assisted procreation to 'transsexuals, including single people', provides for the automatic registration of children of same-sex couples without going through adoption and deletes the word 'mother' and replaces it with 'pregnant spouse'.
A ideological law to the point of delirium cannot hold with a different majority, and the reform of a regional law such as that proposed by the governor of the Region of Madrid represents a first step towards a radical rethinking of the gender identity issue, which is likely to eventually lead to a repeal or reform of the national Trans Ley.
Next, an extensive excerpt from the investiture speech by Isabel Díaz Ayuso taken from El Diario.
Maria Celeste
The President of the Region of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, pledged this Wednesday during the investiture debate at reforming the regional trans law, commitment he made to Vox in the last parliamentary term and which he has now announced he will fulfil with his absolute majority. "No one will be left without their legitimate rights, but neither will social engineering be done at anyone's expense'. assured Ayuso during his investiture speech.
"We must continue to do effectively what the Madrid region has pioneered: protect transgender people. But always guaranteeing the quality of the legislation; the constitutionality of all articles of law; equal opportunities for women in sport and in all spheres of life; protection of minors; educational and academic freedom; legal certainty'. he listed. He continued 'and also the presumption of innocence, the freedom of the press and the non-criminalisation of the intervention of health workers'. (referring here to the punishability of therapists who undertake psychological courses with persons suffering from dysphoria, a sanction introduced by Ley Trans, ed)
Translation by @Fede_RRe
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