The Spanish Government Has Gone Full Dentons

Last month the Spanish government approved a draft bill which will allow anyone over the age of 14 to legally change their sex without requiring any medical diagnosis or treatment. Those over 16 years of age will be able to do so without the consent of their parent or guardian.

The law would also offer assisted reproduction to lesbians and bisexual women, outlaw conversion therapy for those same-sex attracted and will afford greater protection to people with disorders of sex development.

The draft legislation is supposed to be subject to a public hearing prior to the parliamentary vote. However, one of our sisters in Spain has been in touch to tell us that the Spanish government isn’t too keen on the idea of the public having their say.

She told us: “The Spanish Ministry for Equalities opened a public consultation on their draft/bill BUT TOLD NO ONE. It's not in the press, and not on their social media. Once we feminists complained, they added a banner in their website. So only AFTER entering the website - if you happen to pass by - then you’ll learn about it. They gave the minimum period legally possible, three working weeks. Exactly when everyone is on holidays.”

In December 2019 The Spectator reported on a document produced by international law firm, Dentons. "Only adults? Good practices in legal gender recognition for youth” was written in conjunction with the Thomson Reuters Foundation and LGBTQI lobby group, IGLYO, which describes itself as “The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer & Intersex (LGBTQI) Youth and Student Organisation”.

The intention of this report was to assist trans lobby groups in bringing about legislation that allows minors to legally change their sex.

It describes the law, policy and 'advocacy' of several different countries and includes contributions from various trans groups. It collates and shares 'best practice' in the lobbying techniques used to change the law so that parents no longer have any authority over their child legally changing sex.

The report advises trans activists to tie their campaign to a more popular movement:

“In Ireland, Denmark and Norway, changes to the law on legal gender recognition were put through at the same time as other more popular reforms such as marriage equality legislation. This provided a veil of protection.”

It also advises secrecy about the changes for which they are lobbying and to avoid public and media scrutiny.

“Another technique which has been used to great effect is the limitation of press coverage and exposure… Many believe that public campaigning has been detrimental to progress, as much of the general public is not well informed about trans issues, and therefore misinterpretation can arise. In Ireland, activists have directly lobbied individual politicians and tried to keep press coverage to a minimum in order to avoid this issue.”

Sound familiar?

The Spanish government have tried to sneak their self ID legislation past the public and the media and they’ve lumped it in with genuinely progressive laws that advance the rights and protections of gay, lesbian and bisexual people and those with a DSD.

This baseless, anti-science and dangerous ideology has to hide in the shadows, deliberately shrouding its aims and methods in secrecy, because it will never survive the sunlight. And the zealots know that.