She had stopped in front of an ATM to regain her strength before joining her friends. The route did not pass through dark or empty streets. Even though it was six in the morning, in the middle of the September 1st celebrations in Valladolid, there were still many people rushing out in the late hours of the morning. It was then that, as he rounded a corner, he found himself face to face with hatred. Several boys approached this 21-year-old girl. “She was completely alone and there were three of them.” They asked her name and when she answered, one of them hit her while shouting “fucking lesbian”.This is how the victim tells it from the hospital bed where she is recovering from a double jaw fracture for which she had to undergo surgery and for which a long convalescence awaits her.
After the blow, the young woman explains, the three boys “ran away and I found myself spitting blood.” “Thank God, some boys turned the corner at the moment of the punch, They followed them while another boy stayed to help me. They coordinated with the police and located them“Otherwise, they would have gone home laughing and telling it like any other anecdote,” she explains in a message sent via Whatsapp, since this blow prevents her from being able to tell it out loud for the moment. After 40 days, he can no longer speak and has to eat with a straw.
In it, she recounts how “they assumed I was a lesbian because of my haircut and decided to believe they had the power to attack me just for appearances, even though for these types of people, they don’t care if you have short hair, long hair, short hair or girl They only seek conflict“. Maturity is now imposed on his youth in the face of a traumatic event in which he specifies that “it was not my fault that my sexual condition was taken for granted, it was not my fault my clothes (black jeans and black sweatshirt) and even less it was my fault that I had crossed paths with them. We continually struggle not to live in fear precisely because of people like that, but at 21, it seems impossible to me to go home alone.”
“Since we were little, we have always had the fear of going out alone in the street in our body.because of the way you dress (mini skirts, dresses, makeup) or they teach us to defend you on certain occasions (house keys in hand, talking on the phone all the time, sharing locations, etc.) but we should not blame. But we must not teach them that there is no aggression and that the street belongs to them and that they can do what they want with anyone,” concludes the young woman.
One of these three young people was arrested for these events and was brought to justice this Friday, as explained by the government’s subdelegate in Valladolid, Jacinto Canales, who once again “firmly rejected hate speech,” intolerant and anti-democratic and strengthen the commitment of the Spanish government in the defense of human rights and different sensitivities related to sexual orientation or gender.
