A member of the e28 coordinator in Bizkaia reported that UGI went to the Gender Identity Unit of the Cruces Hospital and that, in addition to hearing gordofobos comments, they denied testosterone for being fat. The concentrates have concentrated on the doors of the IGU to denounce what happened on 8 August.

The member of the Coordinator went to the IGU and, due to the internal protocols, was referred to the psychiatric consultation. According to the staff of the Unit, the objective of the internal protocol is to prioritize the well-being of patients. The members of the Coordinator have questioned it, because during the time of the consultation, the colleague suffered a lot of violence: “Although they told her that she was not a woman, they told her that within the woman’s spectrum there are also male women. In addition, the psychiatrist appointed him as a person with "morbid obesity" and told him that it is clear that when you look in the mirror it is fat and that the body you see on the island cannot like it."

At the same time, he questioned the identity of his partner saying that a fat person is not able to distinguish his gender: “He told him that a fat person can’t be a transe until he slows down and walks into the hegemonic canons.”

Despite being awake for therapy, he was given psychiatric treatment and weight loss treatment, and denied starting testosterone until he lowered some pounds: “He told him that he would repent if he didn’t lose weight and that that rubbish, in reference to the testosterone, would begin to take.”

Need for primary care

They add that the IGU forces trans people to go through psychiatric processes. As a result, in the case of a person who has denounced a fat attack, the psychiatrist has decided to paralyze the hormonal process "by the simple fact of being a gross person": “All of this has had negative consequences on the mental health of our partner and, therefore, on that well-being they speak so much.”

For the clinical and hormonal transitions of trans people to be “as safe as possible,” they are asked to go to primary care: “We demand the disappearance of the IGU because it does not bet on the real well-being of trans people. On the contrary, it marginalizes trans people and pathologies”.

It is not the first time that dissident gender people who come to the IGU have reported cases of violence against women. In November last year, Izei Etxeberria, a member of Gehitu’s trans, nonbinary and intersex commission, denounced that, according to a survey conducted by the commission, they suffer “bad” and “violent” care and are forced to go through psychiatry.