Concentration in Vitoria-Gasteiz to denounce Sunday's rape and transphobe attacks
- A transsexual woman was raped last Sunday in the Vitorian district of Abetxuko, where another complaint of gender-based violence was recorded on 22 July. The Basque Observatory of the Vision of Álava has detected 15 cases of gender violence against the LGTBI+ group since May. On Wednesday, a rally has been called to denounce the aggressions and denounce the increase in gender violence and LGTBI+ phobia cases.
Araba’s LGTBI+ phobia observatory has detected 15 attacks on the collective in the last three months: seven hate speeches, four physical attacks and four cases of exclusion. In addition, in the entire Basque Country there have been four women murdered by male violence so far this year. The organization, the Vitoria-Gasteiz Feminist Movement and Coordinator E28 have denounced the increase in gender violence and LGTBI+ phobic violence in the demonstration on Wednesday.
“We are facing an increase in the discourses of aggression and hatred. In cases of machismo, racism and transphobia,” the organizers said. In his opinion, these attacks are not isolated events, but a structural problem: anti-collective ideas are “facilitators and legitimizers of fascism” and “they are winning in the streets, in the media and in the parliaments”. Attendees have explained that to end the attacks it is necessary to eradicate LGTBI+ phobic and cysheterosexist thinking.
To this end, they stressed the importance of promoting an “inclusive feminism”. As they have explained, the violent system that promotes violence against women affects "all" women in society. They have added that, leaving behind the “essentialist discourses”, they have to face this structure together, promoting common actions between the feminist movement and the community of sexual dissent.
Attack on Sunday
The organizers met this Wednesday in Vitoria-Gasteiz on the occasion of the aggression that took place on Sunday night in the Abetxuko district. During the weekend, a man had threatened with a knife a transsexual woman he had assaulted and raped. The aggressor escaped, and the woman filed a complaint with the Ertzaintza, who was arrested.
A similar attack took place on 22 July. A 64-year-old woman left a bar in the old part of Vitoria-Gasteiz and a man called it "dirty maricona", according to the Basque Department of Security. The aggressor punched him three punches and threw him to the ground.
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