This week's plenary session will be The last one as an ERC deputy was Tània Verge, former Minister of Equality and FeminismsBut far from receiving kind words as she closes her political chapter and returns to academia, her departure has been met with a barrage of criticism from the current regional minister, Eva Menor. It was during the parliamentary question time that Verge again questioned Menor about the work carried out by the department, now led by the Socialists. This is not the first time the former minister has questioned Menor's approach; throughout the last year and a half of the legislature, the representative of Salvador Illa's government has engaged in heated debates with Virgen, who has also leveled criticism at the department's role. The battle of these past months culminated on Wednesday with tension: "self-satisfied" and "paternalistic" were two of the terms Menor used, who also clashed with Virgen over their views on feminism.

For the first time, it seems we're getting some good news from the Minister of Feminism: that the Catalan government is working to abolish prostitution. These are intentions, of course, and we'll see what happens, but it's already much more than what we've had in Catalonia in recent years: regulationist policies that want to present the so-called oldest profession in the world as just another career opportunity, a job like any other. Ada Colau made things easier for pimps by adopting this position and selling it as open and inclusive. It may seem to ordinary people that this issue doesn't concern them, that those of us who don't know this world have nothing to say, but the existence of sexual exploitation networks and the impunity with which they operate represent one of the greatest shames we live with while we pay lip service to equality and human rights. Can we boast of social sensitivity while there are people being bought and sold, rented by the hour, and subjected to degrading and humiliating practices? The PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) has long since committed to advancing abolitionism, as feminist organizations have demanded, but things are moving slowly because, as Ana Redondo said, touching on the topic of prostitution always generates controversy. The politicians who put the brakes on these much-needed advances in equality will explain why they show such solidarity with pimps. It's clear that the corruption cases that have been uncovered recently, where there is no shortage of "ladies" demonstrate that resistance to ending this ignominy must come from within the party itself. In any case, Councilor Eva Menor's initiative is welcome, and we hope that those resisting it will consider the conditions in which prostitutes live, not their ideological principles, and that they will not use this issue to establish a partisan profile. There are many manipulated ideas on the subject, and that abolitionism is not a persecution of women who practice prostitution, nor does it have the intention of stigmatizing them and plunging them further into misery. This is the intimate sphere of atavistic male domination exercised through economic power. The fact that cleaning toilets is just as degrading as accepting multiple penetrations in exchange for money. With prostitution, it does not punish the exploited and should provide support and assistance measures for them and their reparation. If there is a single woman who can be sold as an object, we cannot say that we are an egalitarian society.

LGBTI-phobia is on the rise at a time when hate speech and anti-rights discourse are rampant on social media, in the streets, and even in institutions. 113 centers of the SAI (Comprehensive Care Service) network and 72 more in the department's Office of Equal Treatment and Non-Discrimination Feminism. In total, 479 complaints were filed, at least one each day, against LGBTI-phobia, in an institutional event also attended by President Salvador Illa and representatives of the movement's associative network. efforts" to counter messages and attacks against sexual diversity and gender expression. In this regard, Menor has warned of the risk of "normalizing" these attacks, especially among the younger population, the group where hate messages are most prevalent. According to the latest survey by the Generalitat (Catalan government) on discrimination, 25% believe the attacks should be more moderate and less visible. They curtail rights within the European Union. For the minister, the 8% increase in complaints in just one year is an "alarming" fact that cannot leave anyone indifferent.