Classical feminism breaks into the campaign for regional and municipal elections. The Alliance Against the Erasure of Women, which brings together the feminist associations that have been belligerent with the Trans Law and other policies of the Ministry of Equality of Irene Montero, calls not to vote for PSOE and Unidas Podemos as “traitors”.
“It is essential when voting to consider non-compliance and not forget that laws to erase women have been promoted, which are blurring the objectives of the equality agenda,” Contra Borrado argues in a statement.. For this reason, she urges feminists to punish these parties and “not give the vote to any party that is not committed to safeguarding women's rights and to recover the path of the feminist agenda.”
It so happens that many historical feminists linked to the PSOE meet in this association. Some even hold a socialist card, such as Ángeles Álvarez, and there are others that have been leaders in Equality approaches, such as the philosopher Amelia Valcárcel.
Contra Borrado has produced a denunciation video in which she repeatedly underlines the idea that “feminism does not vote for traitors” and “does not vote for misogyny” or that “being a woman is not a feeling”. These are phrases that he has also turned into slogans to visualize the campaign on social networks.
In his statement, he calls on voters to “withdraw the vote from parties that have abandoned the women's agenda”. And remember that this legislature has been “marked” by the “closeness” of the coalition government when it comes to listening to the “feminist alerts” that “harmful laws for women” were being implemented.
In addition to alluding to the Trans Law, traditional feminists charge against PSOE and Unidas Podemos for the consequences that some of their policies are having, such as the law of only yes is yes. “We have seen hundreds of sexual offenders benefit from a law based on an 'anti-punitive' philosophy, because it would seem that for some politicians sexual violence is not serious enough to warrant high prison sentences.. There have been no political responsibilities, but there have been mockery of those who have denounced this injustice,” says Contra Borrado.
In the same way, these feminists denounce the “incapacity” and “strategic clumsiness” that the leaders of the Ministry of Equality (Irene Montero or Ángela Rodríguez, Pam) are having because with their way of acting or their public statements they are stimulating “an increase of anti-feminism”, as well as the “denialism of violence and inequality”.
A substantial part of the criticism and complaints of these feminists has to do with the Trans Law. “Equality between the sexes must be at the forefront of the public policies of city councils and autonomous communities. The unquestionable need to guarantee equal civil rights to all people should not be the excuse to introduce lawsuits based on felt identities that put the right to fair play in sport at risk and expose minors to an educational system with anti-scientific content. and new sexist parameters,” the statement said.
Contra Borrado highlights the relevance of the elections because the powers of education and health are in the hands of the autonomous communities. Therefore, it points out that it is “paramount to defend the interests of girls and boys” and an “urgent review of the educational protocols applied in schools with approaches that encourage non-scientific explanations about their reality, romanticizing the hormone and mutilation of their healthy bodies”.
The autonomous communities, it is remarked, “must establish control mechanisms in the health field to prevent the indiscriminate dispensing of drugs with irreversible effects to minors who self-diagnose themselves as trans”. In this sense, it is requested to emulate the European countries that have already taken steps backwards to rule out “the use of hormones with minors to treat gender-related ailments.”