#LegalAbortion: Transfeminisms abort submission
The girls, the trans boys, the lesbians, the transvestites, we all look each other in the eye on the street when we see the enormous green handkerchief on a backpack, wrist, or neck, a symbol of solidarity. It's like saying, "I don't know if we'll agree on everything, but there we have the cause that allows us to open a dialogue."
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By Violeta Alegre
Photo: Ariel Gutraich
The girls, the trans boys, the lesbians, the transvestites, we all look each other in the eye on the street when we see the enormous green handkerchief on a backpack, wrist, or neck, a symbol of solidarity. It's like saying, "I don't know if we'll agree on everything, but there we have the cause that allows us to open a dialogue."
A dialogue that became increasingly deeper and allowed us not only to discuss the urgency and necessity of legalizing abortion, but also to debate bodies and identities.
We're expanding on the topic of public health because we're talking about sexuality and autonomy. About how we want to exercise our rights. Autonomy that, historically and even today, is opposed by the very systems and institutions that embody it with names and surnames, using retrograde rhetoric.
When we demanded the Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) law, they told us it should only be in the name of love. Today we demand abortion, and those who previously opposed it are now clinging to CSE, which we have been fighting for for years.
The same thing happened with women's right to vote, divorce, same-sex marriage, and the gender identity law.
The consensus on pursuing clear agendas has symbols (green, purple, rainbow) that unite us. But above all, it demonstrates that the women's and feminist movements go hand in hand with the movements for sexual and gender diversity, and that they are popular movements.
It doesn't matter whether we get the law passed today or not. But one thing is certain: there's no going back, because there are more and more of us: new generations.
We understand that diversity is not just about dissenting identities. We are all rejecting submission. Diversity finds us in dissent from all those who seek to restrict our autonomy.
With all the turmoil surrounding these historic days, with all the memories that come to mind of the countless actions we took and shared, with all the turmoil caused by the arrival of thousands of bodies flooding the streets of our capital from all over Argentina and Latin America, today I shout: Legal, safe, and free abortion! Let it be law!
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