“Not pass“. This idea has led the arrival of the Campaign of the general elections this Saturday to celebrate the pride in Barcelona. Representatives of the PSC, ERC, Comuns and also Junts have been seen in the parade of floats and have called for a vote against “the extreme right” to guarantee LGTBIQ+ rights and to “prevent them from ending everything.” Given the possibility that PP and Vox achieve an absolute majority on July 23 and carry out some of their promises, such as the repeal of trans lawthe celebration of Pride in the Catalan capital has been more demanding than ever and has had the right-wing parties as clear adversaries.
From the institutional part at the head of the demonstration, which has passed through Paral·lel avenue, the mayor of Barcelona has expressed himself, Jaume Collboniwho has defended that there are more reasons than ever for this claim and has assured that “the rainbow flag will never return to the closet”, after rejecting the request that vox He has sent the municipal government to remove this sign from the balcony of the town hall. “In this country, more than ever, we have to take to the streets and we have to participate democratically so as not to go backwards,” she stated, referring to 23J.
Under the banner with the slogan ‘The pride of our lives’, Collboni has coincided with the ‘councillor’ of Igualtat i Feminismes, Tania Verge, that before starting the demonstration, he wanted to value the work of his department in LGTBIQ+ matters and has assured that, given the possibility of a government of PP and Vox, the Generalitat will continue to “stand up defending the rights of the whole world” . “We are a refuge of rights, we are the hope for the territories that see them taken away,” Verge said, referring to the pacts that these formations have already reached in various town halls and autonomous communities.
trans law
This is the first Pride since the trans law came into force, in March of this year, but the celebration is bitter, given the possibility that it will be abolished depending on who occupies Moncloa in the next legislature. This is how the head of the PSC list, Meritxell Batet, although he has not made a specific allusion to this law, which received the support of the PSOE, although with internal division. Batet has celebrated that Spain is “a pioneer in rights and freedoms”, but has warned that “now everything is at risk”.
For this reason, he has requested a I vote to “keep going” and so that Spain continues to be a “positive and not negative reference”. Some statements that he made next to the socialist float, and accompanied by militants from the formation who wore a T-shirt with the face of Jaume Collboni and the LGTBIQ+ flag, puffing up the fact that Barcelona now has the first openly gay mayor.
The number one of ERC on 23J has expressed himself in a similar sense, Gabriel Ruffian, who has asked to “defend freedom, democracy, social justice and human rights, before everything that comes.” Rufián has assured that there is no “better cause than love” and has defended that everyone must be able to “want as they want” and “be as they want to be”. He has also said the same thing the candidate of the Comuns Aina Vidalwho has indicated that voting is an “obligation” before a right that is “willing to end everything” and that it is a “pride of expansive happiness, but also of vindication.”
Finally, the candidate Miriam Nogueras It has also been seen in the demonstration and in the float of togetheralthough he has not made statements to the press.
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On March 2 of this year, the trans law, which was approved by Congress in December of last year, entered into force. The main novelty of the standard is that it allows the administrative procedure of Change of sex and name in the DNI and in the civil registry without medical endorsement or prior hormonal treatment. One of the controversies of the law has been the treatment given to minors. The final draft allows those over 16 years of age to change their sex, while between 14 and 16 they must have the endorsement of their parents and between 12 and 14 a judge has to give the green light.
The norm, which is officially called the ‘law for real and effective equality of trans people and for the guarantee of the rights of LGTBI people’ received 188 votes in favor, 150 against from PP and Vox and seven abstentions, including that of the former vice president and deputy of the PSOE, carmen baldwhich from the beginning was opposed to the wording because it considered that it could be harmful to the rights of women.