Maribel Castillo, deputy to the National Assembly elected in 2020, assured that suffer harassment and persecution by LGBTIQ+ people. In a video he posted on his Twitter accountassured that these alleged acts are due to his thinking attached to the Constitution of the Republic.
“I want to denounce (the lawyer) Tamara Adrián, Cody Campos, Richelle Briceño. They have dedicated themselves with great cruelty to disrespecting me for thinking differently from them”, said the leader of Avanzada Progresista in the material, which she published in the context of a protest around the Federal Legislative Palace in which representatives of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, intersex and queer group participated.
He stated that he has been working in public office for more than 20 years and affirmed that when he held the position of councilor of Caracas he presided over the Commission for Children and Adolescents. “My career has always been working in defense of these rights, which today you want to violate promoting their gender ideology even in children”, he added.
Catillo assured that Tamara Adrián, the first trans deputy to the National Assembly elected in Venezuela, said that homosexuality begins in childhood. However, in an interview that the lawyer granted to First Pagebroadcast by Globovisión, stated that sexual preferences are discovered in adolescence.
“I tell you as a woman, as a mother. Children have to develop, we give them our cultures, our idiosyncrasies, but they are innocent and you do not have to inculcate what you believe. And to us, who do not want it, they have to respect us, “he said.
Threats and insults?
He affirmed that the activists who were protesting near the National Assembly headquarters, in the center of Caracas, on Thursday followingnoon they threatened and insulted her, without presenting evidence. In the videos that she herself posted on her social networks, at no time are the protesters seen or heard attacking her.
The activist Yendri Velázquez, who stated that it is a shame that Castillo is a deputy, appears speaking in one of the audiovisuals: “Their hate and their prejudices do not represent anyone,” he said. And in other material, Richelle Briceño appears, who asked that people who humiliate LGBTIQ+ people have a duty to apologize and be prosecuted by justice.
“Franklin Duarte and Maribel Castillo must have their parliamentary immunity lifted so that the Supreme Court of Justice can investigate them,” demanded Briceño.
— Maribel Castillo (@CastilloMaribel) July 29, 2022
The activists have urged the authorities to lift the immunity of Duarte and Castillo following an interview they gave to the program First Page, which broadcasts the private channel Globovisión. There, Duarte assured that the homosexuals will cause the extinction of humanity and Castillo assured that the rights of LGBTIQ+ people are being imposed.
“You are men”
The militant of the Progressive Advance, still in the same video, said that she has given the Chavista attorney general Tarek William Saab all the videos of the television programs in which she has participated and in which, she assured, she has spoken in defense of the Constitution, the Civil Code and the Organic Law for the Protection of Children and Adolescents.
#28 July For thinking differently attached to the CRBV. I denounce the harassment, cruelty, persecution, violation of my human rights and violence once morest women. By LGBTIQ members. Led by Tomas Adrian, Koddy Campos and Richard Briceño.@TarekWiliamCan@DouglasRicoVzla@Asamblea_Ven pic.twitter.com/5u1yr1XuoG
— Maribel Castillo (@CastilloMaribel) July 29, 2022
“And I continue to maintain that there are no international treaties that are above our Constitution. And family values, which is also something that belongs to the family, very intimate, as is their homosexual movement. I ask for respect,” she expressed.
The parliamentarian also stressed that she will take action for alleged violence once morest women and that she will denounce trans activists who have rejected her hate speech. “Because you might have surgery in any other country, but you are men and you are attacking me with your persecution, their lack of respect,” he said.
“You represent hate and exclusion”
Tamara Adrián granted an interview in First Page a few days following Duarte and Castillo were there. “In turn, they told me that I did what I wanted to do. And no, I didn’t do what I wanted to do, I did what I had to do but I would have preferred not to have to do it,” said the former parliamentarian.
The lawyer, defender of human rights, said that sexual and gender identity is developed in adolescence and cI am very afraid for the harassment they may suffer from people like Castillo.
“With immense fear many times. Fear of what? To the bullying, to contempt, to what you represent from that point of view. To that hatred, to that exclusion. You intend to impose your values and your principles. It is not that we are imposing our values. The highest value and principle in the Constitution of Venezuela is equality of rights and opportunities. Dignity for all human beings, and that is what you are denying, “Adrián replied.
Tamara Adrian (@TamaraAdrian) criticized the hatred promoted by the leader Maribel Castillo (@castillomaribel) once morest LGBTIQ+ people.
“No one wants to be trans, gay, lesbian or bisexual many times for fear of bullying and hate that you represent.”
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— Direct to the Source (@directolafuente) July 24, 2022
