On Saturday, November 2, a new pride march in the City of Buenos Aires and it does not occur in any situation. mercy and their spokespersons replicate hate speeches from the State against sexual diversity. The Minister of Justice in charge of gender areas, Mariano Cúneo Libaronahe even said in Congress “We reject the diversity of sexual identities that do not align with biology”directly denying LGBTIQ+ people. Messages that endorse and amplify social violence against sexual diversity as happened with him murder of three lesbians in Barracas in May. The next pride march raises the debate about how to confront the reactionary offensive.
Pamela, Roxana and Andrea lived in a room of an extremely precarious boarding house, crowded in a neighborhood of the richest city in the entire country. There a neighbor threw a homemade bomb at them. In that postcard, discrimination against sexual diversity and the material inequalities that most of the population goes through intersect.. An inequality that was also expressed in the case of Tehuel, a young trans man, who disappeared in March 2021 while going to look for a precarious job in the southern area of the suburbs.
Ten months into Milei’s government, speculators are celebrating, poverty is growing and incomes have fallen. But that doesn’t end there, When it finds a channel, discontent is expressed collectively.. Of the forceful paro what it felt like on Wednesday trains, subways and airportsalso participated truck drivers, teachers and state. The extended university movement Throughout the country he stars in mass takeovers, assemblies and marches. The retirees and retirees They make their rounds in front of Congress every week. AFIP workers and of the health They are also fighting.
As soon as you pull one end of the thread you see the connection of one thing with the other and that other with another. He Caputo’s plan armed to the extent of paying the IMF It intends for teachers and university workers to earn poverty wages and these cuts to education have their own version in areas of gender, for example, The Comprehensive Sexual Education program disappeared in the 2025 Budget. The same in health, cropping los funds who are going to respond to the HIV and sexually transmitted diseasesthe State already does not buy condomsdoes not comply with the distribution of hormonal treatments for trans people and empties the program for the prevention of teenage pregnancy. Against all this policy a strong message is necessary in the streets.
In many cases these are programs and laws that They previously had a low allocated budget or came from adjustments in previous governments if we compare the funds allocated with the magnitude of the problems they address, as was the case with the trans labor quota or the Acompañar plan.
Los spokespersons of the cultural battle what the government practices against the feminist movement and sexual diversity They seek to point out the rights conquered as a privilege. A way to target people LGBTIQ+ as culprits of the crisis and justify their attacks.
Under the story of “privilege” they deny that there is structural discrimination towards the LGBTIQ+ population. At the same time, they reproduce stigmatizing discourses. Nicolas Marquezbiographer and friend of Javier Milei, a few months ago He called homosexuality “insane and self-destructive”.
So They dialogue with feelings of uncertainty and instability growing after years of crisis, spreading conservative ideas that They seek to return to a supposed natural or “normal” order of things: the prototype of the patriarchal and monogamous family, the mandates of sexuality in a reproductive (heterosexual) key and gender from a biological perspective. Lest it occur to us to question the mandates and ways of relating of a capitalist society that reproduces all types of hierarchies and inequalities.
These speeches embolden the reactionaries who were always there to promote campaigns against the claims that sexual diversity demanded from a State that until not long ago, in legal matters, placed us as second-class citizens. But The reactionary offensive does not come only from Milei, they are ideas that coincide with the doctrine of the Catholic Church and sectors of Peronism itself.. Recently you could see Guillermo Moreno throwing against equal marriage and the right to abortion.
In Peronism in crisis, the Catholic Church gains more weight every day thanks to Pope Francis. Characters like Moreno they rant against what they call “progressive agenda”an idea fueled by an unrealistic argument: that the problems of sexual diversity are a supposed niche that has nothing to do with the economic and social problems of the majority of the population. Even Juan Grabois adhered to that thesis By stating that it was idiotic to problematize the words of Cúneo Libarona, according to his vision, debates such as gender violence are opposed to “the effective, material and palpable reality of the popular majorities.”
It seems necessary to clarify that among the students who grab a megaphone to defend public education, among the nurses marching against poverty wages, or among the railroad workers who were part of the strike, we exist lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites, trans and non-binary .
If Milei became presidentit was not because of the public policies achieved in recent decades. But because of the coexistence between the speech of the Frente de Todos that promised full refrigerators, barbecues and equality, while the adjustment on workers and popular sectors grew. Now the future promise is tied to the electoral speculation or parliamentary threads around the 2025 Budget how radicalism and Peronism propose in the university. We are not interested in any debate where more money for education means less money for health, while a fraudulent debt to the IMF is religiously paid.
Why should we trust the same Congress that has just let retirees and universities veto the veto or that with votes from the PRO, radicalism, the Pichetto bloc and Peronist sectors managed to pass the base law allowing the closure of INADI and the dismissal of their workers. The attacks are happening right now, the consequences are being suffered today and there are sectors that are going out to fight, we have to redouble the organization to put up a fight that includes each and every one of our claims.
During the last decades institutionalization of each of our demands had as a correlate the incorporation into the State of activists as public officials. An operation with which States seek take the complaints off the streets and that at the same time subscribe to an idea fashionable in the neoliberalism based on climbing individually in positions of secretaries, ministries, NGOs or directly companies.
Las organization in study places where delegates vote, where students from different faculties meet to debate and decide how to continue, where workers decide to stay at the Bonaparte hospital to avoid its closure by surrounding themselves with solidarity, they are the example of what other collective, democratic perspective that emerges from below is possible. They give rise to the emergence of new debates that put at the center the urgencies of the great majorities that do not follow the lanes and times of the union bureaucracies and the management of student centers. Because we need a plan right now to confront and defeat this adjustment by Milei, the governors and the IMF that is accompanied by an offensive against our rights.
That’s why we have to fight for an LGBTIQ+ movement that resumes its best traditionsare organization independent of the State, government parties and Churches. like when accompanied the human rights movement in the 90s. The one who with his counter-marches after 2001 questioned the presence of companies in the marches of pride, the same ones that earn millions at the expense of the precariousness of the lives of millions. Let him fight for equality in all areas and without restrictions, repudiating the use of our flag for aberrant purposes as Israel does with genocide that carries forward against the Palestinian people.
We need to unite each and every struggle and demand. We can’t wait for a true egalitarian perspective to emerge from the top, we have to build it.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
