Gabriel Quadri, sanctioned for his transphobic attacks against deputy Salma Luévano

The PAN deputy Gabriel Quadri, during a press conference in Mexico City, on March 10. Daniel Augusto (Cuartoscuro)

Gabriel Quadri will have to pay for his transphobia.

The Electoral Court has determined that his repeated attacks against the transgender community, whom he has described as “trans-fascists” and “men dressed as women”, constitute messages of hate that must be punished.

The court ordered the National Electoral Institute (INE) to register the PAN deputy in the list of political aggressors against women based on gender for four years, so he will not be able to be part of the electoral ballots at that time.

The decision of the magistrates responds to a complaint filed in March by the trans deputy Salma Luévano, from Morena, whom Quadri came to refer to as "sir" in the plenary session of San Lázaro.

"It was determined that the defendant committed political violence against women based on gender in the forms of psychological, sexual and digital violence, by making destructive comparisons and rejection for referring that trans women are different from cisgender women and using discriminatory language," explains in a letter the Electoral Court.

The magistrates unanimously decided that Quadri will also have to take courses on political violence against women, offer a public apology and publish the summary of the sentence on his Twitter account.

That social network has been the main megaphone of the deputy's transphobic attacks.

In a post that has since been deleted from last February 1, he wrote: "Trans-fascism takes its claws out in the Chamber of Deputies."

A day later, he continued: “A prominent feature of fascism is to silence, repress, lynch any different opinion (…) That is what Trans-fascism intends…”.

And, on February 3, he insisted: “Morena's Trans-fascism and Trans ideology take over the Congress of Deputies.

It represses freedom of expression, intolerant, tries to overwhelm those who think differently, does not dialogue, does not argue (it has neither the capacity nor the inclination to do so), it insults.

They go against women…”.

For the court, the messages "had the purpose of making the complainant and transgender women invisible" and for that he should be punished.

Salma Luévano celebrated the decision of the magistrates: “This achievement is for you, for me and for everyone.

#HastaQueLaDignidadSeHagaCostumbre”.

Quadri's attacks against the transgender community escalated when, on April 1, he addressed Salma Luévano as "sir" during a session in the Chamber of Deputies, precisely on the International Day of Trans Visibility, which sparked a dispute that ultimately ended with the session suspended.

“Calling me 'sir' and ignoring my gender identity as a woman is clearly gender violence and also hate speech and for that, they are killing us and I will not rest until I see it in the catalog of sanctioned subjects and that it never appears again on the electoral ballots,” the deputy said then.

Less than a month later, the Electoral Court has agreed with him.

Salma Luévano and María Clemente, who was also a brunette at the time, became the first trans deputies in the history of Mexico in September of last year.

In an interview with EL PAÍS, Clemente assured that they had broken "a glass ceiling" for the political participation of a highly stigmatized and marginalized population in the country.

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