Eduardo Rubiño condemns Jaime de los Santos in 'Espejo Público' for his defense of reviewing the Trans Law: "You are buying into the far-right agenda"

Jaime de los Santos began his speech by denouncing the criticism received after the interview granted to El País and assured that the PP "is not here to be singled out, nor to be tried to be removed from the defense of those things we believe in, much less to be threatened," in reference to the reactions that, as he explained, his stance on the Trans Law has provoked.

Next, the deputy of Más Madrid Eduardo Rubiño responded to the statements of the PP deputy Jaime de los Santos, starting by condemning the threats he claims to have received after his words about the Trans Law. "Anyone condemns the threats you may have suffered, like those, by the way, I have also received," he affirmed, recalling that in recent days he has also been the object of homophobic insults.

Rubiño then reproached De los Santos for the content of his statements during Pride. "In the middle of Pride, you called trans people 'gender fiction'. To me, this seems very serious. Carla Antonelli is not a gender fiction. Bibi Ándersen is not a gender fiction. Abril Zamora is not a gender fiction," he responded, rejecting that characterization of trans people.

The parliamentarian also accused the PP of wanting to cut the Trans Law and return the debate to the framework of pathologization. As he explained, the proposals put forward by the popular party would mean that "what is not a disease is treated as a disease" and that trans people are forced to overcome "an obstacle course, a calvary, to prove that they can live life as they really live it."

Finally, Rubiño rejected the argument of alleged fraud in the application of the norm, assuring that the detected cases are "absolutely derisory," and accused the PP of adopting Vox's discourse. "What you are really doing is buying the far-right agenda and that is what you are criticized for, Jaime. Beyond the insults, which of course I condemn, what you are reproached for is having the lack of coherence to buy Vox's agenda on such a sensitive issue of rights that affect all of us," he concluded.

Rubiño also took advantage of his intervention to explain the origin of the criticism that the PP leader claims to have suffered for other statements made in the past. "We have also heard you, Jaime, on many occasions," he affirmed, before reminding him that he compared journalist Sarah Santaolalla to "a prostituted woman," an accusation that De los Santos immediately denied. Likewise, he alluded to some statements in which he assured that Sumar's ministers were "almost always quite unkempt," in reference to words directed against Mónica García and the participants of the 15M movement.