New legislation also eases abortion limits and makes the country the first in Europe to introduce paid menstrual leave
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Spain’s equality minister, Irene Montero, began her speech to congress on Thursday by thanking Spain’s LGBTQ+ community and trans collectives for helping to get the law passed – and for “saving many lives” in the absence of government intervention. However, the PP accused the government of introducing more ill-considered legislation in the wake of the botched “only-yes-means-yes” sexual consent law that has allowed some convicted sex offenders to have their sentences retrospectively reduced. The Socialists have promised to correct the “undesired effects” of that law, angering their partners in Podemos, which pushed the new consent legislation and still defends it.
She added: “We don’t want to see a new and unbearable roll-call of victims just days after this new law comes into effect. We don’t want a remake of the ‘only-yes-means-yes’ law.” “We’re winning human rights with the free determination of gender ... From today, our lives will change because we are not ill.”
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