He Ministry of Equality is once again a focus of conflict within the coalition government. On this occasion it was due to the recent election of Isabel Garcia as new director of Women’s Institute. Sumar, a minority partner of the Executive, has called his appointment “shameful” and has demanded his dismissal due to his critical positions on trans laws.
“The Women’s Institute cannot be directed by someone who supports the conspiracy of the erasure of women and criticizes the ‘dictatorship queer‘”, he assured Elizabeth Duvalwho serves as Sumar’s spokesperson on Equality issues and is also part of its management.
Yesterday García was appointed director of the Women’s Institute by the Minister council at the proposal of the head of Equality, Ana Redondo. Barely 24 hours later, Sumar assures that his appointment is “shameful” and that it “sends a regrettable message.” Therefore, she requests her departure from office after the dissemination of old messages on Twitter in which she criticized the postulates and theories. queerwhich are what inspire the gender self-determination laws and trans laws.
In these messages, García wrote against the “delirium queer“or the “bullshit queer“. “The theory queer “It advances relentlessly with the sole objective of perpetrating heteropatriarchy and erasing women from politics,” she published in 2019 on the social network now called X.
More recently, in December 2022, in the midst of the debate on the processing of the Trans Law in Congress, he maintained the following: ” Podemos came to politics with the firm conviction of dividing the feminist movement and the LGTBI collective. It has achieved this in record time with the complicity of those who have bought their postulates from other acronyms queers. The fight continues [sic.]… #StopDelirioTrans”.