The host cut off the transmission with his guest, alluding that the production had chosen the wrong person and then assured that it had been a technical error. The LGTBIQ + activist expressed her anger live and on the networks.
A gender role on Spanish television It went viral this Friday. A presenter on the Conecta Canarias program He confused a trans guest because of her gender and then He refused to admit it.
Ibán Padrón received by video call on his program Emma Colao, transgender person, well-known LGTBIQ+ activist in the Canary Islands and president of the Observatory of Social Rights of the Canary Islands. When the image of Colao appearsPadrón thought that it was a man and that the production had confused the connection.
After cutting off the call and going to the program table, Padrón expressed: “We had a mistake with the video call and we immediately resumed the call we had planned.” Colao was invited to talk about the fact that four out of ten Canarian workers will have mental health problems due to working conditions.
The presenter refused to admit his gender mistake
By reconnecting with Colao, The activist did not want to let the bad moment pass that they had made him live. “Well, obviously, I can’t pretend and What has happened is that they have chosen the wrong gender here and, honestly, it seems so aberrant to me. “What just happened is that I have to cut the broadcast,” he said.
In response, Padrón ignored his mistake: “On the set we have a signal and I was not seeing it on the set (implying that a technical failure had occurred). Let it be very clear. I do know him, perfectly . I know who I’m talking to and there hasn’t been any such confusion. Yes, I would like to clarify it so that you can be completely calm in that case. OK?”.
Later, Colao shared the video of the moment on his social networks and added his denial that it was a technical error. “What just happened was not a technical error. At the very least, it could be recognized, as a matter of dignity.”public.
This is not the first time that this driver has caused controversy.
Another controversial situation happened on February 27 in the same program and with the same host. Padrón went viral by censoring journalist Francisco Pomares live. The next day, he had to apologize for “a reprehensible act that, evidently, “We’re not proud at all.”
Source: Ambito
