The school desks of Alana and Leila, the 12-year-old Argentine twins who threw themselves into the void on Tuesday from the balcony of their house in the town of Sallent, province of Barcelona, are now pure
graffiti
.
At the suggestion of some teachers, the classmates wrote
messages for both
girls on the benches .
"Rest in peace", "We are going to miss you", are some addressed to Alana, the twin who died when she fell from the third floor.
"I hope you recover," says another for Leila, who survived her sister although she is still hospitalized and is serious.
"Iván, we love you", reads on a side.
Ivan was the name Alana had chosen for herself.
She had cut her hair and did not hide
her desire to change her sex
, a decision that would have cost her, more than once,
ridicule and harassment
among her classmates.
This possible
transphobia
is today one of the clues being investigated by the Manresa Investigation Court number 5, in charge of determining whether the twins would have decided to jump together from the balcony of their house of their own free will and why they would have done so.
Nor is it ruled out that the girls suffered bullying
due to the Argentine accent
with which they spoke.
They had arrived in Sallent, a Catalan town of 6,700 inhabitants where about 20 Argentines live, in 2020.
The Argentine twins who emigrated to Barcelona with their family.
Initially, the Department of Education of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the public school where they were studying the first year of ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education) firmly denied that the Argentines suffered from bullying, because there were no records of any procedure that was carried out. was processing about it.
Although they admitted that the twins were receiving psychological support.
Three days after the tragedy, however, harassment is an increasingly solid argument according to the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Catalonia Police that is participating in the investigation.
On the "tuned" desk of messages for the twins, affectionate words abound.
But there is also
a disturbing “Alana off”
(“Alana out”) next to a heart.
"Yes, they have ever laughed at the name change," admitted the mother of a teenager who shared a class with the girls.
For the Observatory against Homophobia of Catalonia (OCH), Alana's death is a
"social murder"
.
The Argentine twins jumped from a third floor.
Photo: @TribunaLibreES
"This is news that breaks our hearts, a 12-year-old trans boy commits suicide in Sallent," the Observatory posted on its social networks.
“A death marked by
intolerance, bullying, transphobia
.
We send all the heat to Iván's environment and we make ourselves available in case psychosocial and legal support is requested ”, they offered from the Observatory.
Five days before the twins fell from the third floor where they lived with their parents and their 10-year-old brother, Spain approved, amid controversy, the trans law that allows sex change from the age of
16
.
The law for the real and effective equality of trans people and for the guarantee of the rights of LGTBI people - an acronym that includes lesbians, gays, transsexuals, bisexuals and intersex people - establishes that, from the age of 16, you can change the sex in the Civil Registry without therapeutic requirements.
Between the ages of 14 and 16 it can also be done if the parents agree and support the free self-determination of their children.
Yes, judicial authorization will be necessary for those between 12 and 14 years of age.
The new trans law would have allowed Alana, still 12, to change her name on her ID.
Madrid. Correspondent
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