Lucía Etxebarria sat on the sofa at Viajando con Chester on Tuesday night, hand in hand with her presenter, Risto Mejide. The writer has been the subject of controversy on multiple occasions in recent years due to her opinion on trans people, which have earned her all kinds of accusations against her.
Although the interview has finally been calm and calm, its beginning has been marked by the explanations that Risto asked his guest in this regard. “I’m going to try to help you explain everything you want,” the communicator and publicist began by telling her, who has traveled to Valencia to speak with her.
Etxebarria agreed to carry out the interview despite the fact that he initially intended to reject the proposal. “I have been canceled for three years. Nobody wanted to take me anywhere. I have been subjected to a brutal smear campaign, in which my books were not in bookstores or I did conferences,” he confessed. Thus, the writer has seen in this appearance “an opportunity” to be seen.
With regard to the Trans Law, Lucía Etxebarria has spoken of “an economic interest” for it to go ahead. “If you start a hormone treatment at puberty, you will be drug dependent in most cases: 200 euros a month for the rest of your life,” she assured.
“I didn’t know what was going to happen to me or how unprotected I was,” he said about the lynching he received after making his opinions public. Without half measures, Risto has asked her if she is “in favor of people being able to choose their gender”, to which she responds by qualifying that “gender is”, but not “sex”.
“If anyone can self-identify and compete according to their gender, women’s sport is over,” Etxebarria has come to assure, who has compared gender self-determination with her daughter’s deafness (“Why does she have to undergo two years of evaluation when you see that she’s deaf as soon as you see her?”), skin color (“In the United States I can’t choose to be black”) or age.
“Why do we have to start from the assumption that a person can randomly decide their sex, but they can’t decide their age on their identity card? And why can’t they decide their ethnicity? Racial identity exists,” he wondered. Lucía Etxebarria in the face of Risto’s disbelief: “It’s not the same,” the presenter chided her.
Despite her radical position, the writer has defended that her thought “is not transphobic” and that she does not seek to “threaten the debate.” Finally, she has spoken without mincing words about Irene Montero, Minister of Equality, for “applauding” and “starting something” against her: “She is brainless; if she wants to sue me, I will be delighted,” she concluded.
