Trans Visibility Day is marked with actions in Lisbon and Porto
ANDm, the associations Ação Pela Identidade, Casa T, Projeto Aniversidade Identidade, Rede Exquo e Transmissão, Anunciarae, Se Apontar, Com Ações de Ação “who want to shout visibility, visibility and autonomy for the marked “trans” people.
In Lisbon, the initiative is scheduled for 19:00, in Praça Luís de Camões, and then marches to Praça da Figueira, where there will be a final gathering. This initiative is organized by five associations.
The concentration in Porto, scheduled for 18:00, “is autonomously organized by several members of the community”, but “with the full support of the collectives above”.
“We call for total urgency in the struggle for the declaration, which are in response to the needs of trans lives, which are in response to the state of enormous precariousness and actions that are consequences in our lives. lives”, refer the associations.
According to the five associations, the day today to give visibility to people’s problems, from the logo to inaccessibility services and discrimination in access to health services for trans people or the social, legal and legal non-recognition of non-binary people .
They want to draw attention to the “severity of attention of areas that are highlighted in work and housing, which is also perceived in the pre-gravity of the trans community and to the violence of areas that are the focus of attention, in schools and other areas .
“The fight we do is for our condition, for our self-termination, for all our lives to live. ” in today’s action, they appeal.
The International Day of Trans Visibility takes place annually from March 31, 2009, by an American trans activist initiative Rachel Crandall, as people to the lack of recognition of transgender people around the world, in addition to commemorating their role and the its contributor to society.
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