The Socialists, led by Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister, included plans to limit participation in female sports to “people with a female biological sex” in a policy document decided on at the party’s congress over the weekend.
The passing of a transgender rights reform in 2023, allowing anyone to change their official sex simply by stating their wish to switch, caused a bitter rift within Spain’s ruling Left-wing forces.
Carmen Calvo, the former Socialist deputy prime minister, said at the time the reform would “destroy the powerful battery of equality legislation in our country”. Activists espousing what they call traditional feminism have flagged abuses of the law, including newly registered transgender women attempting to avoid convictions for violence committed against female partners.
[Ed: Great to see feminist resistance scoring a win in Spain! We don’t need to join the right wing of politics to resist what is clearly an attack on women’s rights.]
Source: Spain’s Socialists to ban trans women from female sports