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Spain’s transgender wars are turning nasty

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Lidia Falcón O’Neill is a legendary figure in Spanish politics. Half a century ago, she stood up to Franco as head of a cell in the communist Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. In 1974, this opposition led to her being brutally tortured:

‘When she fainted they untied her and laid her on the ground.

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