"It is unacceptable that in Italy a worker or a worker suffers
discrimination in the workplace for their gender identity
, as well as for any other element of their sexual identity or for anything that does not have to do with work performance".
Thus the Minister of Labor
Andrea Orlando
in a long post dedicated to the death of
Chloe Bianco
"To any teacher, to any worker or worker who has revealed or is afraid to reveal such an important part of themselves, I want to reiterate firmly: the Ministry of Labor is on your side", underlined Orlando.
"The possible of an ugly woman is so compelling that it takes your breath away", wrote Chloe in his will - reports Orlando - That 'possible' has the size of the camper in which he lived and in which he decided to put an end to the his life.
That camper is also the perimeter of our prejudices
, of our superficiality, of the bet that is lost when we choose contempt to please ignorance.
Ignorance towards those who are judged different, towards those who, on the other hand, just want to live and be welcomed and respected as a person ".
"This asked Chloe. Was it really so terrifying?
Was it too much to ask to be accepted for what she felt she was?
Still, for too many people, unfortunately, yes. The weight of prejudices is too strong, the spiral of silence that pushes to conform to the dominant opinions. A spiral that pushed Chloe to the margins, locked her in a camper, isolated her from the place where she carried out her work, a school. Work that should be the place of solidarity, of inclusion and dignity has become the antechamber of that camper.
Nobody can be said to be innocent
", underlines the minister.
"Those who sow hatred, those who cultivate it, those who make it bear fruit as a putrid rent. But even we who have not been able to fight it, who accept this quickly grown malaplant as something to live with - he continues - I say the acceptance that should accompany this time that has knowledge of the profound on its side, but not even the pity or the suspension of the judgment of our fathers and our grandparents
. it is the daily stoning
, the cowardly derision or the deaf and blind invective, perhaps digital, because he cannot hear or see the tumult of souls, of feelings, of the effort of living and understanding each other. This dear Chloe is not only ugly, he is precisely the horror.May your death remember that we cannot accept it. "
THE FACTS AND THE POLEMICS
Her charred body was found four days ago inside her RV, her "little house on four wheels" as she called it.
She had decided to
take her own life after years of suffering and prejudice
, killed by that transphobia that had devastated her existence.
Yesterday, on the memory of
Cloe Bianco, a transgender teacher who was removed from her job after the sex change
, there was yet another
shock statement by Elena Donazzan
, the councilor for Equal Opportunities of the Veneto region who had already criticized the case in the past on his social networks, yesterday closed to the comments that were flooding his page.
"It is shocking that the LGBT movement is using the tragic death of a person to make a political controversy - she says in an interview with Radio 24 -. I believe that the one who left Professor Bianco alone is precisely the LGBT movement".
In the interview, the commissioner continued to speak in a masculine fashion about the transgender professor,
labeling her for the umpteenth time as 'a man dressed as a woman'
.
For Donazzan - who denounced insults and threats on his own profiles - "feeling one's sexuality in a different, particular, homosexual, transsexual way is one thing, but the school is not the place of ostentation because that was what it was all about".
"Because to say that one is homosexual is a statement - she added -, showing up in class, because this happened, with a blonde wig, a fake breast, a miniskirt and heels is another thing".
And right from the school - the "Scarpa-Mattei" Agricultural Institute of San Donà di Piave - come the words of a student who entrusted her thoughts on the tragic death of the teacher to social networks.
"
She was my teacher - Sara remembers
- and the worst thing is that
the parents in the first place were shits who saw her as a freak
making very long queues at interviews with her (which never happened before) just to see her in person and then mock it ".
"Unfortunately - he continues - my school had teachers and headmaster understood that he was not tactful in things, they were the first to speak of it with contempt".
Among the comments to the post there is also that of a saleswoman in a shoe shop, where Cloe Bianco was served.
"I had a happy LADY as a client because we had shoes with heels up to 44 - she remembers -. My employer didn't say hello to her, my colleagues 'trimmed it'. Very happy to put her slipper on like Cinderella and I treated her like a real princess ".
And, just to pay homage to the memory of the professor, yesterday dozens of professors, students and activists gathered in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Education to ask that it "
never happen again
".
The message written in capital letters on one of the many signs is clear:
"Let's free the school from transphobia"
, the hatred that killed Cloe Bianco.