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Carmen Calvo criticizes that feminism has to “carry” LGTBI claims: “We could also join those who design tractors”

The president of the Congressional Equality Commission and former vice president of the Government, Carmen Calvo, has wondered why feminism “has to bear” the demands “of other groups, such as the LGTBI.” She has done it in the delivery of the III Awards for Equality in the Legal Profession, according to El Español.

“Feminism has always been endorsed that it has to go hand in hand with the demands of other groups (…) We could also choose to go hand in hand with those who design tractors or paint facades,” he said, charging again against the trans law, in whose approval he abstained. Thus, Calvo asked to “end this synergy”: “We take it for granted that an LGTBI man is a feminist and he doesn’t have to,” she said.

Calvo’s statements have not gone unnoticed and have reached social networks. “Did anyone come to believe that he was only going after trans people?”, Carla Antonelli, a former PSOE deputy in the Madrid Assembly and former socialist militant, asked in a Twitter message, “one since she is an old lady, Mrs. above all, she catches them on the fly…”, she has finished.

“There is no need to assess these statements by Carmen Calvo because they are valued alone,” the spokesman for Podemos in Congress, Pablo Echenique, wrote in a comment on his Twitter.