A year ago, Spain introduced gender self-ID, and the results have been predictably disastrous for women, with predatory men granting themselves access to female spaces. Spiked‘s Lauren Smith investigates.
Barely a year after Spain passed its ‘trans equality’ law, gender self-identification is wreaking havoc across the country. To almost no one’s surprise, the law that makes it significantly easier for anyone to legally change their gender has turned out to be a predator’s charter.
Since early 2023, it has become astonishingly easy to change your legal gender in Spain. All you have to do is make two official declarations at a registry office, three months apart. There is no medical consultation or intervention needed, nor do you need to show proof that you actually intend to live life as your chosen gender. You don’t even need to be over 18. Sixteen-year-olds can legally change their name and gender, while 14- and 15-year-olds can do so with parental consent. Even children as young as 12 can legally make the switch with a judge’s approval.
The new law has taken a shredder to women’s rights. As anyone could have predicted, single-sex spaces have been all but abolished. And many other legal protections that women once fought for have disappeared overnight.
Last week, Ana Dávila-Ponce de León, councillor for family, youth and social affairs in Madrid, sent a letter to Spanish equality minister Ana Redondo García denouncing the new law. She had been made aware of a number of cases in Madrid in which men accused of crimes against women have abused the self-ID rules.
These cases, detailed in El Mundo and reported on in English by Reduxx, are truly chilling. According to records, there have been six known cases so far in Madrid of men accused of violence against women legally changing their gender. In three of these cases, the men went on to apply to stay in women’s shelters. So far, it appears that shelter staff have refused them entry. But this is technically illegal under the trans-equality law. It is only a matter of time before a woman’s shelter is punished simply for doing its job – namely, for protecting women from predatory men.
In one particularly disturbing case, a woman reported a man to the police for allegedly drugging and raping her in front of her young daughter. She later found out that he had legally changed his gender. This meant that a number of protections she would ordinarily be entitled to have now been taken away.
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There are no doubt a good few old A340s in service with commercial services that don’t have their flaps fail to retract on their revenue-earning services.
I think the Luftwaffe needs to up its maintenance game somewhat.
Not with the budget they have.
“I think the Luftwaffe needs to up its maintenance game somewhat.”
Some of us might prefer that they didn’t.
Wir verenden Annalena!
Baerbock is infamous for her inability to use the correct polysyllabic words in German sentences. One of her famous wrong statements (from the election campaign) was Wir verenden Europa! What she obviously meant to say was Wir vollenden Europa! — we’ll finally turn the EU into what it should always have become, this being code language for We really want to get rid of the German nation state. (and preferably, also all others). The verb she used instead – verenden – means dying, usually of animals, due to old age or succumbing to injuries.
Germanys very own Kamala Harris
So what? Apart from the waste of money, what’s the problem?
I seem to remember that one of the reasons why Ursula Von der Leyen was moved on by Mutti from her role as defence minister was because she couldn’t keep Mutti’s Luftwaffe operated executive transport in the air long enough for Mutti to go anywhere. But the had very nice crèche facilities. It looks like nothing much has changed.
Yeah.. the German Defence Minister Von Der Liar.. the one who couldn’t keep the German army in boots.. says it all.. move her to the EU Commission where she can screw up everything good and proper.. job done..
Now, that’s a great story.
Well knock me down with a feather! Their loyalty to the cause will always be rewarded. *Behind a paywall but the ‘Esc’ trick worked*.
”Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s former deputy chief medical officer who became one face of the government Covid pandemic response, has taken a job as senior medical consultant at vaccine giant Moderna.
The move is likely to prompt fresh consideration of the “revolving door” for prominent government figures who move into business roles.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jonathan-van-tam-job-moderna-vaccine-b2395006.html
Or as they like to put it nowadays, “There are fears the move will only encourage the conspiracy theorists who say there is a revolving door…”
There is no shame involved with these dirty dirty lying po faced Barstewards ! I had him pegged as a complete sh1thouse with his regular televised public covid procrastinations ! Bought & Paid for duplicitous Chunt ! Where,s a lamppost when you need one
I can just imagine the ceremony if the “priceless cultural artefacts” were handed over.
1st aborigine “Pressies!”
Baerbock “There’s this”
1st aborigine “What is it?”
2nd aborigine “It’s a stick”
1st aborigine “Is it a stick, Baerbock”
Baerbock “Yes, but it’s a special kind of stick. When you give it away it comes back”
Slight caricature of Black Adder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfTdnWLMLDA
I don’t deny the cultural value of the artefacts, which have their devotees on the antiques market.
But just imagine a contemporary parallel to the giving of gifts to long-serving missionaries bringing faith, or maybe education and medical care, in the nineteenth century.
“You teenage English volunteers have helped us so much here in [name developing country] by building us a school and showing us how to pipe fresh water from the well you dug. We have little, but would like to thank you by giving in return some of the locally woven fabric you see every day in our clothing to remember us by.”
“No, we can’t possibly accept that, because it is cultural appropriation. But maybe a couple of those imported Swiss Army knives?”
Or, being naive teenagers, perhaps they’d accept, only to be castigated by the sending organisation, whose CEO has to take a special flight and Land Rover trip to return the roll of cloth.
Couldn’t she have posted the sticks?
Isn’t she the innumerate politician who referred to an about face as a 360 degree turn?
Yes.
Another famous one would be that she got once trapped in a discussion about EV batteries and lenghtyly blathered about these containing kobold. No one can really tell if she confused this with cobalt or possibly actually believes it. She isn’t very technical. She also once referred to eastern Ukraine as Ostkokaine — eastern cocaine.
Sorry to hear she has so much trouble with her flaps
I think we all know full well what the purpose of the trip was: a nice little holiday, courtesy of German taxpayers.
Spot on..
Its a toss-up between what dies first.. Germany or its politicians.. the only way Germany won’t is if its present day politicians do.. excluding the AFD of course..