Spanish government aims to remove ‘Q+’ from LGBTQ+ and ban trans women from sport

Spain’s socialist government has sparked controversy by planning to remove the “Q+” from LGBTQ+ and ban transgender women from women’s sport.

Prime minister Pedro Sánchez’s Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE), or Spanish Socialist Workers Party, made the policy announcements during a party congress in the southern city of Seville at the weekend.

The changes would limit participation in female sports to “people with a female biological sex” and result in the Q+, which refers to people who are queer and questioning, and who do not fit into neat gender and sexuality category, removed from the LGBTQ+ acronym – within a plan to protect queer minorities from social inequality.

For many, the move will be seen as contradictory to Spain’s progressive LGBTQ+ legislation, including its sweeping reforms to gender recognition laws which allow

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