Georgina Saldierna and Enrique Mendez
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday, February 18, 2022, p. 7
Transgender people confronted deputy Gabriel Quadri yesterday, whom they asked for a public debate, but the PAN member eluded: I think not right now
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Faced with criticism for his speech transphobic and transodyant
Quadri fled to his offices in the Chamber of Deputies, while his partner Teresa Castell sought to defend him with fists and shouts: I am indeed a woman!
Activists demanded a public apology, but Quadri wriggled out of it again: I have never attacked them
. Castell took him by the arm and pulled him away. I am indeed a woman!
, insisted the PAN deputy, as she opened the way, helped by the security personnel of the chamber. Pale and speechless, Quadri slipped into the PAN area.
-Stand back, stand back! the legislator demanded.
–Do it yourself, because for your comments they are killing us! We are women too! Transphobic!
With Quadri hidden, Castell tried to leave the blue and white offices, but the transgender deputy María Clemente García (Morena) blocked his way. You don’t pass!
He snapped.
