"Dear Giorgia Meloni, I am writing to you again a few months after your reply. You declared yourself available and happy to have a discussion with me, but then, although I had publicly accepted my dinner invitation, you are not here to eat pizza with me and Alba never came".
Thus begins the open letter that the Councilor for Welfare of the Municipality of Naples
Luca Trapanese
- single father of a girl with Down Syndrome - addresses to Prime Minister Meloni a few months after the invitation addressed to the Prime Minister and Fdi leader for a discussion on the idea of family and on the theme of adoptions.
"This week - writes Trapanese on his Facebook profile - you gave an interview to Silvia Grilli, director of the weekly Grazia, who put your face on the cover with the words: 'Girls, let's free our power!'. I expected to read from the first female Prime Minister words of praise to women for their talents, an invitation to defend their freedom to develop, cultivate their passions, make choices, work and reach positions of prestige and power on a par with men. And instead it turns out that the power that women should free up, according to your point of view, would be limited to being mothers, bringing children into the world, giving up on aborting where instead they had decided to do so. ".
"I would also like - continues Trapanese - for you to explain to me what the gender ideology that you mention in the interview would be, a term coined by you. Does it also concern me, a gay father? I adopted Alba - underlines Trapanese - an abandoned child with Down syndrome by a woman at birth and unwanted by over 30 traditional families, the ones to which, you say in the interview, every child would have the right. Too bad you didn't come to visit us as you promised, you would have known our family - can I call it that or aren't a dad and a little girl a family?In our house you would have understood that the love and joy that surround Alba are so great that they make her totally happy.I think it is precisely for this reason that you have not kept your promise - he concludes his letter from Trapani - in order not to see what is so evident.
Alba and I greet you, regretted and also a little sorry for you, who are unable to grasp the enormous beauty kept in the uniqueness of all the families who love each other".