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The August celebrations of patron saints in many Spanish towns are a period in which, according to president of Abogados Cristianos (‘Christian Lawyers’) Polonia Castellanos, provocations such as town halls promoting gender ideology or the mocking of Christian religious beliefs are becoming more and more frequent. One of the most recent cases happened in Calviá, a town in Mallorca, where, before an audience of families and children, a queer show was performed, in which an individual dressed in lingerie, pretending to be a woman, made all kinds of sexual comments. Christian Lawyers filed a complaint, arguing that the divisive and controversial show was put on with taxpayer money.
The complaint provoked a tense debate on the television program En boca de todos, on channel Cuatro, between Polonia Castellanos and Daniela Vallejo, ‘Miss Trans 2025,’ who defended the queer event. The discussion became heated when the president of Christian Lawyers referred to Vallejo, in each of her interventions, as a ‘gentleman’ and addressed him as ‘Sir.’ “Don’t call me ‘Sir’! Respect me, because I respect you. You should refer to me as ‘Madam,’” Daniela protested, to which Polonia pointed out that she was just sticking to biology. “Even if it’s politically incorrect to say it, he is a man, so I’m not going to treat him any other way,” Polonia commented to me when I asked her about this controversy.
As expected, Miss Trans 2025 called the words “this gentleman” a transphobic attack and filed a hate crime complaint against Christian Lawyers, with the support of the Ministry of Equality. Shortly after, Vallejo made a comeback to the same television program, discussing the complaint and reaffirming that “biology is not everything, not 100%.”
Polonia Castellanos, who was also invited to participate in the program, stood firm: “I have every right to believe that he who is born a man dies a man. Let him denounce me, but he should not be allowed to try to impose his ideology over my beliefs.”
Attacks against Christian Lawyers, and even accusations of “violence against the trans collective,” have multiplied since this incident, and Polonia published a video on social media to explain and reaffirm the organization’s position:
We at Christian Lawyers are living through veritable persecution because a trans activist has denounced us for calling a man ‘sir.’ Although of course Christian Lawyers defend respect for all people and their dignity for the simple fact of being born, and of course we are against insult and violence, what we cannot tolerate is that they [trans activists] are trying to impose their ideology over our beliefs or their self-perception over our faith. For this reason, Christian Lawyers will continue to fight for the respect of the fundamental right to religious freedom, and for the respect also of our children, on whom they want to impose this ideology, and for freedom. Imposing the idea [of transgenderism] through intimidation is not only wrong because it goes against people’s religious convictions, but also because it contradicts biology and anthropology.
Vallejo has also accused the mayor of Badalona, Xavier García Albiol, of the Popular Party, of being “homophobic” and “transphobic” for publishing the following message on X after being interviewed by the same television program and erroneously being identified as ‘Miss Trans 2025’:
Absolutely not! Today I was interviewed on @cuatro @EnBocaDe_Todos and I can do a lot of things in life, but as for entering the Miss Trans Spain 2025 pageant, I’m not at that stage yet, much less likely to win the title.”
For the moment, García Albiol has not been denounced for a hate crime, but what is evident is that in Spain, wokism is very much alive.
