Carla Antonelli, a Spanish politician and LGBTQ activist, has delivered a rabble-rousing speech in defence of trans rights in the Spanish parliament. Antonelli made history as the first publicly transgender person elected to the Senate of Spain.
Addressing the room, she said: “Trans people – we are everyone’s topic of conversation. Everyone has to have an opinion about us. If we are trans, what we are, what we are not.”
Antonelli went on to address Vox, a Spanish far right party: “Members of Vox, today you came here to derogate my colleague Jimena [González, another Spanish politician who is trans], to derogate me. Honestly, don’t you feel ashamed?"
“Do you not feel any shame at all for trying to remove, to erase, to cut out of this society a historically persecuted group of people?”
The lawmaker continued: “People who are finally starting to life our heads, trying to find our place in this world? You are making our lives absolutely unbearable. Just leave us alone, for God’s sake!”
Watch the Antonelli's speech here.
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