Spanish lawyer, author, and feminist politician Lidia Falcón is being investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office for Hate Crimes and Discrimination in response to a complaint from Federación Plataforma Trans (the Trans Platform Federation of Spain), because of her gender-critical views. Woman's Place UK features a translation of an interview she gave to a Dominican newspaper:
We are opposed to the idea that everyone has a “gender identity” that ought to be legislated. To begin with, we are opposed to the term “gender” full-stop. The term gender is a linguistic construct that has displaced Marxist categories, and that has displaced anthropological categories. That is to say, it alleges that neither men nor women exist.
The bill proposed to abolish the words “man” and “woman” and to replace the terms “father” and “mother” with “pregnant parent” and “non-pregnant parent.” These are the linguistic monsters fomented through postmodernism. Apart from the fact that the bill intended to legally recognise within the civil registry, any person who declares themselves to be the opposite sex, simply on the basis of their wishes. We are mostly talking about men claiming to be women. This has consequences for sports, prisons, shelters for victims of violence, scientific research, and feminist quotas where being a woman is a determining factor.
We find ourselves at a point in history when women are being erased from the law and public policy.
In my long career fighting for women’s rights, I have to confess my deep concern. I would never have thought that I would find myself at this stage of my life, having to defend the fact that I am a woman and that women exist as human beings, independent from men. Engels said much the same in the Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State 150 years ago.
I don’t think there is anyone sensible, educated or not, who does not know what a woman is and what a man is. These are the two sexes of the human species, corresponding to the two sexes of all mammalian species.
It's a interesting take from someone brought up as a communist, fighting fascism under Franco, who's now seeing the old Marxist thinking of the left being displaced by what she views as postmodernist nonsense. I have no great affection for those old Marxist dogmas, but she does have a point.
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