ES — Asturias. “Gender-based violence is a crime committed by a man on a woman with whom he has had a relationship. … My professional criterion is that you cannot apply gender violence legislation because you have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria,” Íñigo Urien Azpitarte, Special Lawyer for Violence on Women of the Vizcaya Bar Association, said about the case of a now 50-year-old client accused by his wife of psychological abuse, which she says had driven her to file for divorce.
“My client is a woman from birth even though her genitals were male, so the law cannot be applied as if she were a man when the supposed facts were committed,” the lawyer, a pro-nuclear family and anti-abortion advocate, stated.
The client, who is male, began identifying as a woman during the divorce proceedings, and received a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. He works as a firefighter, while the woman who is divorcing him holds an administrative position. The embattled pair share two children. The case has been in litigation for over nine years.
“The law speaks of man’s violence against women, and he was not a man,” Mr Urien Azpitarte remarked about Constitutional Act 1/2004 of 28 December, on Integrated Protection Measures against Gender Violence, a Criminal Code enacted in Spain that established a framework addressing violence committed by a man against his female intimate partner. The 2004 Act, which had been fought for by Spanish women associations since 1993, brings harsher penalties against against those whose abuse is deemed gender-based violence. The purpose of the provision was to counter rampant violence against women plaguing Spanish society.
“We are no longer facing an alleged perpetrator but the alleged psychological violence perpetrated by a woman against another woman.” He demands that his client not be registered as an ‘abuser.’ The allegations in this case should simply be “aggression, with less harsh penalties,” the lawyer said.
“My client already has a new name and it is on his ID. I think he cannot be judged for gender-based violence. … He has already been granted the name change in the registry after undergoing hormonal treatment, prior to surgical intervention.”
The woman had filed several complaints against her husband for psychological abuse during the marriage, including insults and vexations.
Mr Urien Azpitarte vows that he is willing “to take the case to Strasbourg if necessary.” Strasbourg Court is the European Court of Human Rights, which is located in Strasbourg, France.
The case, apparently unprecedented in Spain, has sparked debate in lawyers’ forums.
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El Confidencial
Íñigo Urien Azpitarte, el abogado que lleva el caso del bombero que cambió de sexo después de estar incurso en un juicio por violencia de género, fue candidato a las elecciones europeas de 2014 por el partido Familia y Vida, cuyo ideario está muy próximo al de la asociación Hazte Oír, con quienes también ha colaborado y ha dado charlas difundidas en la página web de esta asociación que se hizo célebre con su autobús en el que se hablaba de vulvas y penes.
When I first read this it made me so furious I was frankly unable to comment. Upon rereading the article, I’m still incredibly angry but cannot claim to be surprised by this lawyer’s incredibly low “argument” for his client, although with any luck, the Court will see through it and charge him as an abuser.
I see that the couple have 2 children who have spent the last decade in turmoil. They’re the individuals for whom I feel the most and I hope the court in question has the decency to rule in their and their mother’s favour.
So gender dysphoria is a free pass then? I guess this clown will also disregard the kids, since “she” did not give birth, therefore she cannot be the mother OR father. What lies
To answer your question “So gender dysphoria is a free pass then?”, yes – it would appear to be increasingly the case but the case which exemplifies this the most in my opinion is this one: https://www.womenarehuman.com/male-violent-child-rapist-secures-early-prison-release-by-identifying-as-a-woman-josie-ne-joseph-smith/
To answer your second question regarding whether or not the guy will likely disregard his kids now, yeah, I’d say he’ll either do that OR insist upon fighting his ex for the “right” to access them regardless of their feelings on the matter (frankly I’d bet on that outcome if I were the betting kind).
What really irks me about this case is the fact that his lawyer is ordinarily a strictly “for the nuclear family” kind of a guy – in other words, he’s almost certainly a hard-line misogynist. It certainly shows the Trans Cult’s true colours if you ask me.
The fact that this lawyer is a ‘pro-nuclear family’ and ‘anti-abortion’ advocate just proves my point even more about how the political right benefit greatly from the trans movement!