He has been, without a doubt, the star signing of television in recent weeks. The program “Everything is a lie” on Cuatro announced a few days ago that The former Minister of Equality and now MEP, Irene Montero, would become part of its team of collaborators. News that caught everyone by surprise, since it is the first time that the leader of Podemos accepts a role like this in a television program.
This Monday was the day of her debut, and Irene Montero could not begin in any other way than by demanding that Risto Mejide change his attitude in his way of speaking. “I want you to commit to saying death every day I come, but seriously. No joke, machirula. Because these people exist and, normally, what they receive is people’s incomprehension and they suffer a lot,” said the MEP in reference to non-binary people.
A request that Risto, at first, has not accepted willingly. “I am more of the RAE. And the RAE says that ‘everyone’ already encompasses ‘everyone’ and ‘everyone'”, The presenter of the program has defended himself. A reasoning that, as could be expected, has not convinced Irene. “What is not named does not exist. If you say ‘everyone’, perhaps the RAE will change its criteria more quickly,” he told him.
Risto has responded again by ensuring that, unfortunately for him, he does not have that much influence in the RAE. “The day they give me a chair I might think about it,” he added. AND He has stated, assuring the former minister that he respects everyone, even if he does not say everything in his speeches.
It seems that Irene has not convinced Risto in her proposal, but it is clear that the Podemos leader has reached everything is a lie with strength and desire to put up a lot of war.
Non-binaryism in Spain
Non-binary people demonstrate in Madrid
There is no specific data on the number of people in Spain who are considered non-binary people. That is, they do not feel identified with the male or female gender and they construct their identity outside the binary logic of the cisnormative system according to which biological sex and gender identity coincide.
However, a Mastercard study published in 2022 indicated that nearly 10% of Generation Z (those people born from the mid-to-late 1990s to the late 2000s) identify as nonbinary. A percentage much higher than that of the entire population, which was around 4%.
The truth is that the reality of non-binaryism has remained hidden or unknown until now for a large part of society. In fact, according to a state study also carried out two years ago, 75% of people who self-identified as non-binary stated that they were between 15 and 25 years old when they encountered the first label related to it, despite the fact that many discovered that their gender did not fit. in traditional categories from a very early age, facing challenges before finding a language and community that reflects their experience.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.es
