Asking is not offending, they used to say at home, and I think so too. Go for it. Last week the so-called trans law was approved in Congress. Have all the possible effects of the new legislation been well anticipated, including the unwanted ones? Depending on who answers, especially if they are the authors, they will tell me that there will be no unwanted effects, because if they were foreseen, they would have already been arranged in the law before giving the go-ahead. Very reasonable, but let’s look around us.
The furthest away but not so close is that of Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s chief minister, whose recent resignation has several reasons but one of them has been the scandal over the placement in a women’s prison of a trans woman convicted of the rape of two women when she was still living as a man and who was finally sent to one for men, a solution that activists have already cried out against and that has not left anyone happy, because it is impossible to do.
Can this happen here? If so, have you planned what to do? If so, please explain it. And also the frauds that can be committed. Asking is not offending and it is not transphobia either, but a right, it is knowing how the laws are going to be applied, which once they appear in the BOE have a life of their own. The socialist deputy and former vice president of the government, Carmen Calvo, abstained in the vote when her exchange of views with Pablo Iglesias is recent, on account of the yes is yes law and the “very clear objections” they had in their party, a euphemistic way of calling unwanted effects, which we already know politicians speak differently than normal people. For example, the reduction of sentences in too many cases.
Wanting to know and, above all, wanting to understand is not transphobia, although many keep their doubts to themselves for fear of ending up pointed out, which is a bad thing, both the pointing out and the fear. It would be good that when one expresses her fears, a cordon sanitaire is not established around her. They are only questions, the problem is the answers.
