The acting president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has reopened the debate on the Trans Law by announcing that she will modify it. She advanced that she will change the regional ‘Trans Law’ during the next legislature with the aim of “protecting” transsexual people.
It is an idea that already flew over the Madrid Assembly at the end of the previous legislature, but the Madrid PP failed to reach an agreement with its then government partner, Vox. In fact, the discrepancies between the two parties on this matter was one of the points that caused this year’s budgets to not go ahead in the region.
Ayuso made it public on the first day of his investiture speech held in the Autonomous Assembly, in which he warned that in the Community “no one is going to be left unprotected in their legitimate rights”, although he pointed out that “social engineering is not going to be done either at nobody’s expense.” But the debate has continued this Thursday.
“We will carry out a modification of the ‘Trans Law’ of the Community of Madrid,” he said, to “protect transsexual people” without going into more detail. She also commented that “at all times” “legislative quality, equal opportunities for women in sports and educational freedom” will be guaranteed, among others.
In this sense, the spokesperson for Vox in the Madrid Assembly, Rocío Monasterio, has celebrated that Díaz Ayuso is going to modify the Trans Law, but has also asked him to repeal “the LGTBI Law and the Law on Gender Violence if he believes in equality”.
For his part, the spokesman for the PSOE in the Madrid Assembly, Juan Lobato, has assured that the Trans-regional Law has “functioned normally” and sees it as “stigmatizing” that “the melon is opened” now proposing a reform. To which he has added:
“Madrid should be the vanguard and flag of the rights of the LGTBI collective (…) What reasons are there to open a debate about it now?”, questioned the socialist.
The current Trans Law in the Community of Madrid came into force in 2016, when Cristina Cifuentes was in the presidency, but the PP did not have an absolute majority. The legislative initiative was presented by the socialist parliamentary group and the Ciudadanos parliamentary group and was the first to be approved by the opposition without the support of the regional executive, which abstained. In addition, the current socialist government approved a few months ago regulations on this matter throughout Spain.
