A group of feminists opposed to the Trans Law has boycotted the institutional act organized by the Ministry of Equality to commemorate 8-M. In addition to launching proclamations against Irene Montero, when they have been given the floor they have openly confronted the minister asking her “what is a woman”.

“Women, due to the fact of being women, have a greater risk of suffering violence and poverty and that is why it is important that we make public policies that respect all women, all of them,” Montero replied, at the event organized at the Teatro Pavon from Madrid.

The response did not convince the activists at all. “You don’t know how to define what a woman is and you don’t know why we are oppressed”, one of them has recriminated, who has emphasized that it is because of the sex with which women are born and because of a biological reality that the Ministry “denies “.

For his part, Montero has criticized his positions. “Perhaps what you want to explain to us is that there are no women who have a penis, that is, that trans women are not women,” she said. For her, immediately and immediately, to claim that her mission as her minister is to “respect human rights” and promote “safe spaces” where they are respected.

The improvised confrontation, which took place after critical feminists loudly interrupted the act (“feminism is not divided, it is parasitized”) and offered to speak, ended with the activists challenging Montero to ” debate” for real with the feminist associations that denounce that the Trans Law “erases” women. “You don’t listen to us”, she has become ugly.

For his part, Montero has pointed out that the “threat to women” is not trans people, but “the lack of sexual education, machismo, patriarchy and sexual aggressors.” It is against that, she has finished off, against what you have to “fight”.

It is the second time in the last two weeks that feminists critical of Montero sabotage an act of his. It already happened in another meeting of women organized by the Ministry of Equality, in which the same criticisms were also heard. On that occasion there was no discussion.

For the rest, the institutional act for 8-M has dealt this year with sexual diversity and taboos related to sex. Under the name Now that you see us, this 8-M let’s talk, the importance of giving a comprehensive and “fearless” sexual education to young people has been addressed and all this is claimed as a “right”. It has also wanted to focus on female pleasure.

In said act, the institutional campaign for this 8-M was projected for the first time. In it, she delves into all this trying to make sex visible beyond the usual canons, showing scenes of disabled people or people with different bodies. The objective of the campaign is to send the message that all people are “valid” and have the right to enjoy themselves.

The act has consisted of a round table in which they have participated, in addition to Montero; the Secretary of State for Equality, Ángela Rodríguez, Pam; various students and podcasters.

Unlike other years, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has declined the invitation of Equality to attend the institutional act in the midst of the dispute within the coalition for the reform of the law of only yes is yes. Going would have been a gesture of détente and not having done so shows his disapproval of the attacks unleashed by United We Can against the PSOE. Yesterday the women were called “traitors” and “fascists” in Congress.

Sánchez has not only planted Montero. It is that, in addition, he has organized his own commemoration of 8-M with a meeting with women managers in Moncloa.

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