The Government has approved to present an unconstitutionality appeal for the changes that PP and Vox introduced in the LGTBI+ regulations of the Valencian Community. The Ministry of Territorial Policy and Historical Memory, led by Ángel Víctor Torres, and the Ministry of Equality, led by Ana Redondo, are leading this lawsuit before the Constitutional Court. “This Tuesday, the Council of Ministers approved an agreement, with a favorable opinion from the Council of State, for the filing of an appeal for unconstitutionality against the modifications to the trans law of the Valencian Community,” Torres announced.
The Government questions the modifications in Valencian regulations, which have been observed by the Ministries of Equality; Health; Youth and Childhood; and Education, Vocational Training and Sports. In general, they consider that modifications are introduced and provisions of a previous autonomous law – 8/2017, for the recognition of the right to identity and gender expression in the Valencian Community – are introduced, which violate “the competence attributed to the State to regulate the basic conditions that guarantee the equality of all Spaniards in the exercise of rights and in the fulfillment of constitutional duties.” Furthermore, the Government considers that “several articles of Valencian law, while they modulate the prohibition of conversion therapies, violate rights.”
At the beginning of February, the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, already announced that the Government would appeal the Accompaniment Law (of fiscal measures, administrative and financial management) of the Valencian Community because. Finally, Torres’ ministry has joined the analysis of the file, in addition to having the support of other portfolios.
Although the rule was approved in May 2025 by the Valencian PP to ensure the support of Vox in the processing of regional budgets, one of the amendments to it opens the door to the implementation of false conversion therapies for LGTBI+ people; prohibits educational centers from addressing sexual and gender diversity; and gives parents of underage adolescents the power to block their children’s gender change.
They denounced that PP and Vox emptied the trans-Valencian law of its content “through amendments that eliminate LGTBI+ rights that have already been consolidated in Valencia for years.” They consider that the changes promoted by conservatives and the extreme right in Valencia “weaken the right to gender self-determination; commitments to diversity education are lowered; or the door is opened to so-called conversion therapies, among other cuts.” Hence, the organization, which represents more than 55 entities throughout the territory, celebrates the initiative of going to the Constitutional Court.
“We are not going to allow Valencian citizens to have fewer rights or freedoms than those of the rest of Spain,” Minister Redondo said a few weeks ago, when she announced that the appeal was going to be presented. “LGTBI+ rights have been used [en Valencia] as a bargaining chip to reach budget agreements, something immoral, unfair and unconstitutional,” added the head of Equality.
A little over a month ago, Redondo and Torres showed harmony when they participated in the event Proudly free, at the Ateneo de Madrid, The initiative was promoted by both organizations, and was part of the acts of Spain in freedom: 50 yearswhich celebrate the end of the Franco dictatorship.
While promoting cuts in LGTBIQ+ laws, the Generalitat Valenciana, chaired by Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca (PP), held its first Diversity Gala. However, a few days before, the popular members of Valencia received an argument in an email from the group’s entities that detailed the purpose of that event. “Disappropriate the left of the symbolic monopoly of diversity, without direct confrontation, recognizing coexistence, social cohesion action, institutional recognition, transparency and accountability,” explained the text, advanced by eldiario.es.
After the revelation, fifteen organizations showed their rejection of the event and denounced it as a mere strategy of pinkwashing. “No gala can hide the reduction of rights that this same Government has promoted and that the LGTBIAQ+ movement has managed to bring before the Constitutional Court,” they expressed in a statement.
Madrid reforms
Pedro Sánchez’s Executive has already brought to the Constitutional Court the reforms proposed by the Madrid PP to regional LGTBI+ regulations. Among the changes, trans minors were required to have a favorable medical report to begin gender confirmation therapy; The reversal of the burden of proof was eliminated, which forces the accused of discriminating against trans people to prove their innocence; and repealed the right to gender self-determination. Furthermore, part of the attention to trans people in educational centers or in the Administration disappeared, and any consideration of hate crimes ceased to be part of the regulatory provisions.
―which agreed with the central Executive―. “We did it with the Community of Madrid and we are going to do it with any community that approves laws of involution,” Ángel Víctor Torres stated this Tuesday.
For her part, the president of Felgtbi+, Paula Iglesias, highlights that “Spain is a country that defends and values human rights. This was demonstrated by the Constitutional Court when the PP tried to reduce freedoms in Madrid as well.” “We trust again in the intervention of justice [en el caso valenciano] because there are more of us who want an egalitarian democratic society that does not take steps backwards, nor leave the most vulnerable people on the margins,” he adds.
Place of memory in the Tefía neighborhood
Furthermore, Territorial Policy and Historical Memory have confirmed that this Friday the 27th, the Government will declare the former Tefía Agricultural Penitentiary Colony, in Fuerteventura, a Place of Democratic Memory. This space, which will be the first Place of Memory in the Canary Islands, housed a forced labor camp for homosexuals during the dictatorship, through which around 100 inmates passed, living in inhumane conditions.
