Silvia Carrasco (Ep. #2)

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Silvia Carrasco (Ep. #2)

We don’t have to be afraid to speak the truth

Annette Pacey

Mar 24, 2025

Transcript

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Now, on to the main event:

Silvia Carrasco on, well, just about everything:

In this episode of Gender Lupa, I’m joined by Silvia Carrasco. If you’re not already familiar with her work, you’re in for a real treat. With decades of experience in both academic research and feminist activism, Silvia has many insights to share into the current state of gender politics in Spain. I certainly learned a lot.

We discuss the two separate demonstrations held in Barcelona for International Women’s Day this year, the stark differences in their approaches to feminist issues, and the difficulty of getting feminist perspectives into mainstream media when gender identity ideology dominates the discourse.

Silvia also shares key findings from a report by Feministas de Catalunya on the Catalan Health Service’s Servei Trànsit, which highlights an alarming rise in the number of young girls seeking medical interventions related to gender identity. We examine the shift in co-education from a feminist framework to one shaped by gender identity ideology—and what that means for children and teachers in schools.

We also talk about the ongoing efforts to silence Silvia and other feminists raising these issues, and how rights are sometimes more fragile than we think, but we also well as the resilience and resurgence of Spain’s radical feminist movement.

Guest info:

Silvia Carrasco Pons is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and director of the EMIGRA-UAB Research Group. She’s a specialist in migration, education and inequalities. Silvia is also an active feminist campaigner: The president of Feministes de Catalunya and co-founder of DoFemCo (Docentes Feministas por la Coeducación - a feminist teachers organisation). She is the lead author of the book La Coeducación Secuestrada (Coeducation Hijacked) which is a feminist critique of the encroachment of gender ideology into education in Spain. In 2024 she was a candidate for the Partido Feministas al Congreso (the feminist party) in the European elections.

Twitter / X: @SilviaCarrascoP

Resources & Links:

Feministes de Catalunya

Report on Catalan Health Service’s Servei Trànsit - Executive Summary in English

Cass Review Final Report - The UK government commissioned independent review of gender identity services for children and young people.

Video of Silvia presenting the findings of the report to the Spanish Parliament (in Spanish)

DoFemCo Docentes Feministas por la Coeducación (a feminist teachers organisation).

The book about the replacement of the the feminist objectives of coeducation with gender identity ideology: La Coeducación Secuestrada (in Spanish)

Spanish news report (2024) including an interview with Silvia when trans activist protesters attempted to prevent her teaching her classes at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and called for her to be sacked (in Spanish).