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Spain’s Socialists to ban trans women from female sports (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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The Socialists, led by Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister, included plans to limit participation in female sports to “people with a female biological sex” in a policy document decided on at the party’s congress over the weekend.

The decision to also remove Q+ from a plan to protect sexual and gender minorities from the impact of social inequality sparked fury from LGBTQ+ activists and politicians from Left-wing partners of Mr Sánchez’s minority government.

The passing of a transgender rights reform in 2023, allowing anyone to change their official sex simply by stating their wish to switch, caused a bitter rift within Spain’s ruling Left-wing forces.

Carmen Calvo, the former Socialist deputy prime minister, said at the time the reform would “destroy the powerful battery of equality legislation in our country”.

Pathetic display from so-called socialists

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They actually cut it down quite a bit from what it was a grassroots law with support of politicians. And it was possible amidst the inner confusion of PSOE itself, with its transphobe "feminism" wings taking positions inside the party. There was a gap of possibility between the two discourses:

transphobe discourse representation

"we are trans-friendly as long as it's a secondary issue and you don't threaten the binary status quo" and this "trans women with penis are trying to erase us women and must not enter women toiltets"

And some sources: actually PSOE tried to cut it down a lot, but faced too much opposition mostly in the streets, and defended by the equality minister of the more leftist then-coalition party Unidas Podemos. https://www.elsaltodiario.com/ley-trans/psoe-asume-no-puede-recortar-ley-trans-aprobaci%C3%B3n-dictamen-sin-enmiendas

Also, one of the "successful" cuts was against non-binary people.