Carla Antonelli leaves the PSOE due to the delay in processing the trans law

“There are drops that fill full glasses”, and Carla Antonelli’s (Tenerife, 1959) was overflowing. The political activist has thus graphically explained her decision to withdraw from the socialist party, the same one for which she has asked for the vote for 45 years and under whose acronym she has become the coordinator of the Transsexuality Area of ​​the PSOE . The reason for Antonelli’s departure from the PSOE is the extension of the deadlines when processing the ‘trans law’. The first transsexual deputy in Spain, she leaves the PSOE militancy as a protest against the “maneuver of extending deadlines” that, according to the also activist, the PSOE plans in the processing of said law in Congress. Antonelli denounces lengthening the time can suppose a “threatening of more cuts” in the norm. The former deputy of the Assembly affirms that she is leaving “with deep pain” and that even if she says goodbye to the PSOE, she will not be able to “never lose” her “socialist nature”. “I was, I am and I will be a socialist”, she has said.(1) Today I have requested my withdrawal from membership in the @PSOE, not in my name. But, even so, what I will never be able to take down is my socialist nature that goes in the vein, I was, am and will be a socialist, wherever I am and whatever the field of life.— Carla Antonelli / 🏳️‍⚧️ ☂️ (@CarlaAntonelli) October 18, 2022 The 2023 elections, another “possible obstacle” for the lawAntonelli assures that he makes this decision in the face of the “new maneuver of extending the deadlines for amendments until December with the threat of more cuts in the Law “, which, in her opinion, takes her to next year “already immersed in the regional and municipal elections, which will be another of the possible arguments for further delays and in a sigh towards the end of the legislature.” The former deputy asks Sánchez let him reconsider “I exhort and call on the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to put the Law back in its place, as it did at the time, to close the deadlines for amendments and to continue its urgent process, by the word given and the commitment acquired”, he adds. The spokesman for Podemos in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has advanced this Tuesday in the Lower House that they suspect that the PSOE intends to delay the approval of the norm with an extension of the term of amendments. For now, the deadline for submitting amendments to the articles of the Trans Law has been extended until October 26 and this deadline could continue to be extended weekly despite the fact that it is a Law that is processed by urgent procedure, like, for example , that the Abortion Law, whose deadline to submit amendments does end this Wednesday. For the former deputy, this extension is the “last straw.” And although she assures that she will never lose her “socialist nature” and proudly recalls the struggle of many colleagues for LGTBI rights, she also affirms that there are people whom she does not recognize and whose “metamorphosis only instills fear.” Against Valcárce, Miralles y Calvo Specifically, in her letter, she lashes out at State Counselor Amalia Valcárce for referring to her as a “sixties gentleman” and militant Alicia Millares for stating in a congress: “I call them uncles, because they are uncles.” Likewise, she charges Carmen Calvo for sending a “transphobic pamphlet” to all socialist groups in Spain in 2020. The former deputy acknowledges feeling “profound disappointment and emptiness” and criticizes that she wants to “break the popular will” with “siren songs” , when the terms of the norm are foreseen both in the investiture speech of Pedro Sánchez and in the socialist electoral program and endorsed in two confederal congresses. He also recalls that the socialists themselves brought a more progressive norm to the Lower House in 2017. He also assures that “there is a large number” who are fathers, mothers, grandmothers, relatives or friends of trans people, who are now “immersed in a terrible unease”, as well as those who observe from “silence and stupor”. Finally, he expresses his satisfaction at being “on the right side of history” and makes ugly that those who are against the norm have only achieved “60 people in single file in front of Congress”, despite the “media loudspeakers” they have inherited.