Italy's leading lesbian group said
Wednesday it agreed with Premier Giorgia Meloni that a man did
not become a woman simply by self-declaring their gender change.
"I agree with Meloni that giving a man the opportunity to
declare himself a woman, beyond any surgical, pharmacological or
administrative path, harms women," said Arcilesbica president
Cristina Gramolini.
"I agree with the fact that one cannot skip the sexed body, that
is, one is not a woman being a man by mere self-declaration,
this would harm reality and women, for example in women's sports
or equal opportunity policies", she said.
Meloni tells Grazia magazine in an interview out Thursday that
"Today, the unilateral right to proclaim oneself a woman or a
man is claimed beyond any path, surgical, pharmacological or
even administrative. Masculine and feminine are rooted in bodies
and it is an incontrovertible fact. Is this to the detriment of
women? I believe so: today, to be a woman, it is claimed that it
is enough to proclaim oneself as such, meanwhile work is being
done to erase the body, the essence, the difference." Italy's
first women premier stressed that "women are the first victims
of gender ideology" and said that "Many feminists think so too".
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