The spokesman for Vox in Chamberí, Álvaro Belda, was expelled from the Chamberí plenary session after referring to the spokesperson for Más Madrid within the district, Jimena González, as ‘Don Jaime’, his identify previous to his gender transition.
This is how Jimena González herself has denounced it on social networks: “If in Vox they suppose that by calling me ‘Don Jaime’ they’re going to make me doubt who I’m, what my id is, what my story is… they take it clear.”
“From Más Madrid we’ll proceed to guard the legal guidelines that assure the rights of trans individuals and a minimal first rate therapy equal to that obtained by any particular person. We is not going to permit Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Vox to chop, a lot much less repeal, the Madrid Trans Law”, Add
The neighboring member of Más Madrid has defined the “ridiculous and embarrassing scenario” when “for the primary time” the Vox spokesperson referred to her publicly with the identify previous to her gender transition.
“He has been within the district for a similar years as me, nearly 4, he is aware of me, he has been seeing my gender transition week by week for greater than two years, however he had the ridiculous thought of publicly referring to me as ‘Don Jaime’, which is my earlier identify, the one I used earlier than my gender transition”, González has detailed.
Political events confirmed their help and the general public chanted ‘her identify is Jimena’. The Vox spokesman refused to rectify and ended up expelled. “It is a delusional scenario to check with any particular person, no matter whether or not he’s trans, with a reputation apart from the one he knowingly makes use of, it’s a common lack of respect,” he confused.
The spokesperson for the formation within the City Council and candidate for Mayor, Rita Maestre, has proven her help: “Her identify is Jimena. She has been working for Chamberí for years and is an distinctive particular person. They solely spit hate and attempt to harm her”, has answered.
The LGTBI+ rights activist Carla Antonelli has proven her help for Jimena González with these phrases: “How shameless and what a chunk of scoundrel: till the day earlier than yesterday you have been Jimena however yesterday you were not anymore. You solely have to scratch this riffraff just a little to seek out the putrid transphobia wherein they drown and wallow like pigs”.