November 20th, Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR)
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in WORLD, 19/11/2012
November 20th, Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR)
Even today, a high price is still paid for transgressing the gender that society imposes according to the person’s biological sex and for breaking the rules imposed by the majority.
For a few years now, the Transgender Day of Remembrance has been commemorated on November 20th. In this date, we remember the comrades of all genders who have passed away due to the irrational hatred of those who believe that disruption of gender boundaries must be punished with death.
We have adopted officially this day in order to remember the death of Rita Hester, which led the following year to the creation of the website "Remembering our dead”, a project that also included a candlelight vigil in 1999 in San Francisco, USA. Since then, this event is held in many cities worldwide.
This date is important to give visibility to the consequences that exclusion and discrimination imposed by the social majority can have on a trans person (transgender, transvestites, transsexuals, cross-dressers and other gender dissidents), marking her or him with stigma. The organizations representing these people and asking for respect for their human rights should continue denouncing this situation, benefiting from this Day to express demands to their States, and to increase the visibility of problems affecting trans people. In most cases, these persons are forced to become sex workers, an activity which renders them vulnerable to Hiv/Aids and which exposes them to becoming victims of violence – often resulting in loss of lives as a result of hate crimes.
These hate crimes on the basis of the gender identity assumed by trans people (transgender, transvestites, transsexuals, cross-dressers and other gender dissidents) are happening everywhere in the world. Today, Trans organizations committed to the defense of the rights of their collective, denounce these deaths through alerts and reports. These are collected in the Handbook of Intolerance kept by the ILGA Trans Secretariat and in the "Trans Murder Monitoring Project” of the European Union Trans Conference (TGEU). In such a way we can inform the world about global social practices that must be eradicated everywhere, since they undermine all values and dignity of the person, says Belissa Andía, of Instituto Runa de Desarrollo y Estudios sobre Genero in Peru.
The situation experienced by these persons worldwide is indeed alarming. They are excluded from education, employment, justice, health services, etc. These spaces and services, to which they are entitled as human beings and citizens, are denied to them due to transphobia. Even when they can access them in some cases, they are subject to discrimination, because they are different from the majority, because they allegedly violate the rules established by the rest of the society. This discrimination is often imposed by religious beliefs that condemn diversity.
Nowadays several international groups are advocating for the removal of the term "transsexual" from the next version of the World Health Organization (WHO) catalogue of mental illnesses. They request that this condition be recognized as part of the complex sexual identity of human beings. Any trans person –so as many non-trans persons– can attest that being trans is not something that needs psychiatric treatment: it is the process whereby a person self defines his or her gender.
According to feminist activist Silvia Buendía "Homosexuality is a sexual orientation, a person who is sexually attracted to someone of the same sex. The transsexual or transgender condition is totally different: it concerns a person born with a certain biological sex, but who starts a process of identification to another gender when growing up.
The price that is paid for breaking the barriers of sex and gender is way too high. We must all do something to stop this.
Marlene Bennedeck Dumont
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Report: 265 Trans People Murdered In One Year
n WORLD, 16/11/2012
A NEW report released Wednesday shows that 265 transgender people became victims of violent killings across the world over the last 12 months. In total, since January 2008 the murders of 1083 trans people have been reported.
A new report released Wednesday shows that 265 transgender people became victims of violent killings across the world over the last 12 months.
The figures were released yesterday by the Trans Murder Monitoring project and they indicated a 20% increase from last year, when 221 trans murders were reported.
In total, since January 2008 the murders of 1083 trans people have been reported.
The Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) project started in April 2009 and systematically monitors, collects and analyses reports of homicides of trans people worldwide.
Updates of the preliminary results, which have been presented in July 2009 for the first time, are published on the website of the “Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide” project 2 to 3 times a year in form of tables, name lists and maps.
‘We are witnessing a significant increase [of murders], which points to the extreme level of violence many trans people continue to be exposed to,’ said a statement from Transgender Europe.
The update shows reports of murdered or killed trans people in 29 countries in the last 12 months, with the majority from Brazil (126), Mexico (48), and the USA (15), followed by Venezuela (9), Honduras (8), Colombia (6), Uruguay (6) and Guatemala (5). In Asia most reported cases have been found in India (6), Pakistan (5) and the Philippines (4), and in Europe in Turkey (5).
Central and South America accounted for 80 % of the globally reported homicides of trans people since January 2008.
The figures were released for the 14th International Transgender Day of Remembrance, that will be commemorated around the world on Tuesday 20 November.
The report can be accessed here. hXXp://www.tgeu.org/265_Trans_People_killed_in_last_12_Months
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Events Around the World
There are many events around the globe that are going to take place on November 20, 2012, to commemorate the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Events are about to be held in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, UK, and USA. Details of the events and the locations can be found at transgenderdor.org
If you know of any other event, please post it here.
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The price that is paid for breaking the barriers of sex and gender is way too high. We must all do something to stop this.
OK bears. But, as one "belonging" to the G component of a mebbe commonly known construction, I'd have a question. How does the T component breaks/should break the sex and gender barriers?
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@agis ~ I have no idea not being a T. But I do have empathy for them and their plight to find acceptance in society
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@agis ~ I have no idea not being a T. But I do have empathy for them and their plight to find acceptance in society
And "empathy" is a word we could think to as nice for some reasons. First it's one of those words of Greek descent many if not all the so said "arioeuropean" languages share. If that thing stood for you too so as I've stated it, dear bears, we could also think that the underlying mind operation is the same for you/me/us all. Let's see. It seems to me when I say/write "empatia" which is the Italian equivalent, there is a "pathein" that could be more a feeling than a suffering in the sense of a pain that I feel in (em) me with you cause I presume I can be like you feeling it. Right?
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Another thing showing empirically at least to me is the apparent rarity of our T friends contributions.
Since more than six years I remember only from another forum the poetess Jacquii.Have you known online more T friends than me?
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I remember Jacquii quite well. In fact I tried to invite here here to share her poetry and she declined the offer. :cry2:
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I remember Jacquii quite well. In fact I tried to invite here here to share her poetry and she declined the offer. :cry2:
Well bears, concerning poetry, we must not forget Jacquii is a professional in that field not a poor seldo…m amateur like me :sickr:. We could think instead to a greater effort not in the sense of a general empathy which leaves the things like we found them. An attempt to a deeper comprehension?
Is it difficult? Mebbe yes -
Difficult?
No, because you know dear bears…
I was born as a man and as all the good and well made men I had my GFs, a good number of them go figure and I would even have hated to go sexually with men. It wasn't really my bit... really.
But oiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!! iooooooooooooo!!!!!! there was only a little insignificant problem. I was not a man. I was a lesbian woman
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Difficult?
No, because you know dear bears…
I was born as a man and as all the good and well made men I had my GFs, a good number of them go figure and I would even have hated to go sexually with men. It wasn't really my bit... really.
But oiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!! iooooooooooooo!!!!!! there was only a little insignificant problem. I was not a man. I was a lesbian woman
May I go on? ^-^Of course this was not either agis or an agis's agis meaning a science fiction novel but a not fictional woman, a woman with a name: Mirella Izzo. She was born as a man and could'n t understand/bear her way to live with her GF as a man. Useless to say she is a very intelligent woman I owe many personal considerations to and even a charge filed against me and other ones to my country police for this wonderful anachronistic crime of blasphemy some 7/8 years ago :funny2:
Nothing to be worried about guys ^-^ there are things that even Italian police doesn't do anymore and Mirella was afterwards called to give some lessons at the Genoa uni about her interesting constructions. You can find one of them splitted in six parts here: (Italian sorry)hXXp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G11cl00lzx0#ws
hXXp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ8-IroXfWI#ws
hXXp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lIceDuRSVg#ws
hXXp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSwwJ6B-4_I#ws
hXXp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnMs6vd29kI#ws
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ahem bears… ??? service communication. I've taken the hxxp away but the links show anyway :crazy2:
Fixed the links
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Thank you bears!!!! :urock:
Wondering if Mirella's thought an all the molish pro/vs her mumbojumbo :crazy: wouldn't be better in the philosophy forum :hmmm:
