“It is unacceptable that in Italy a worker or a worker suffers discrimination in the workplace for their gender identity, as well as for any other element of their sexual identity or for anything that has nothing to do with the work performance”. Thus the minister of labor Andrea Orlando in a long post dedicated to the death of Chloe White underlining: “To any teacher, to any worker who has revealed or is afraid to reveal such an important part of themselves, I want to reiterate firmly: the Ministry of Labor is on your side”.
«I read that the Padova Pride Village will dedicate today’s evening to Cloe Bianco, the transgender teacher who took her own life a few days ago. “The possible of an ugly woman is so compelling that it takes your breath away”, wrote Chloe in his will – writes the minister – That “possible” has the size of the camper in which he lived and in which he decided to end to his life. That camper is also the perimeter of our prejudices, of our superficiality, of the bet that is lost when we choose contempt to please ignorance. Ignorance towards those who are judged different, towards those who, on the other hand, just want to live and be welcomed and respected as a person. This asked Chloe. Was it really that terrifying? Was it too much to ask to be accepted for who she felt she was? Still, for too many people, unfortunately, yes. The weight of prejudices is too strong, the spiral of silence that pushes one to conform to the dominant opinions is too comfortable. A spiral that pushed Chloe to the edge, locked her up in a camper, isolated her on the place where she carried out her work, a school. The work that should be the place of solidarity, inclusion and dignity has become the antechamber of that camper. Nobody can be considered innocent ».
And he continues: «Those who sow hatred, those who cultivate it, those who make it bear fruit as a putrid rent. But also we who have not been able to counter it, who accept this malapianta quickly grown as a thing to live with. There is not, I am not saying the acceptance that should accompany this time that has on his side the knowledge of the profound, but not even the pity or the suspension of the judgment of our fathers and grandfathers. In the name of values, of identity, of well-meaning conformism, there is the daily stoning, the cowardly derision or the deaf and blind invective, perhaps digital, because it cannot hear or see the tumult of souls, of feelings, of fatigue. to live and understand each other. This dear Chloe is not only ugly, he is precisely horror. May your death remember that we cannot accept it ».
The request of the Uil
«The Ministry of Education is guilty as it was complicit in what happened: it suspended Cloe Bianco from teaching, putting her to work in the secretariats, no longer considering her capable of teaching and hitting her as if she were a social patient. Now you should do an investigation and understand that mistakes must be admitted, even past ones, to avoid that the school is conditioned by stereotypes and that such facts are repeated ». To tell the Ansa is Pino Turi, general secretary of Uil Scuola. “The school must guarantee freedom, it must open minds, it must be immune from conditioning,” he concludes.
The story of Cloe Bianco
Professor Cloe Bianco killed herself a few days ago by setting fire to her camper. The transgender woman’s body was found three days later. At the base of her choice, a long history of discrimination and bullying culminated, after her coming out, with a suspension from school.
The story of Cloe Bianco, the transgender teacher who set herself on fire in her camper: “Now I’m free”. The school suspended it after coming out
After the news of his death, it was also to comment on the story the councilor for Equal Opportunities of the Veneto region Elena Donazzan, one of the protagonists of the story of discrimination of which Professor Bianco was a victim. In an interview with Radio24, Donazzan accused the LGBT community: «It is shocking that the LGBT movement is using the tragic death of a person to make a political controversy. I believe that the one who left Professor Bianco alone is the LGBT movement ».
The suicidal trans teacher Cloe Bianco, Donazzan: “Abandoned by the LGBT world, they made it an instrument of political controversy”
