Pressemappe - Transgender.at

Pressemappe
First European TransGender Council
Erste europäische TransGenderRatsversammlung
3. bis 6. November 2005, Wien, Rathaus
TransX - Verein für TransGender-Personen
Wiener Antidiskriminierungsstelle für gleichgeschlechtliche Lebensweisen
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Erste europäische TransGender-Ratsversammlung,
3. bis 6. November 2005, Wien, Rathaus
„Schluss mit dem Operationszwang!“
Betroffene aus mehr als 20 Ländern organisieren sich gegen sexistische Strukturen,
diskriminierende Körperpolitik und brutale Eingriffe ins Persönlichkeitsrecht: beim
Ersten Europäischen TransGender-Rat in Wien (3. - 6. Nov. 2005)
„Wir haben es satt, aufgrund unserer geschlechtlichen Identität lächerlich gemacht,
diskriminiert und diffamiert zu werden. Wir haben es satt, der Willkür von Bürokraten und
der Ahnungslosigkeit der Gesetzgeber ausgeliefert zu sein. Wir haben es satt, aufwendige
Zwangstherapien und Operationen über uns ergehen lassen zu müssen, nur um sein zu
dürfen was wir sind. Wir haben es satt - und darüber wollen wir reden und dagegen
wollen wir etwas tun!“
Nicht zum ersten Mal werden Anklagen gegen die rückständige Körperpolitik vieler - fast
aller - Staaten Europas erhoben, aber noch nie in so konzentrierter Form wie diesmal, bei
der Ersten Europäischen TransGender-Ratsversammlung in Wien. Betroffene aus rund
dreißig Ländern, von Portugal bis Russland, von Island bis zur Türkei, versammeln sich
von 3. bis 6. November im Wiener Rathaus, um der staatlichen und alltäglichen
Diskriminierung sogenannter TransGender-Personen ein Ende zu bereiten.
TransGenders, also Menschen mit einer von der Körperbiologie abweichenden Identität,
haben es im Europa von heute nicht leicht. Anders als in vielen außereuropäischen und
archaischen Kulturen gilt die Abweichung vom männlich/weiblichen GeschlechterStereotyp als Verstoß gegen eine Norm, die in den westlichen Industriestaaten umso
hartnäckiger aufrecht erhalten wird, je weniger sie modernen Erkenntnissen der Medizin,
Biologie und der interdisziplinären Geschlechterforschung entspricht.
„Geschlechtsidentität darf kein Grund zur Diskriminierung und zur Verweigerung politischer
Rechte sein“, formulieren es die AktivistInnen vom Wiener Verein TransX : „Um ihr selbstbestimmtes Geschlecht leben zu können, werden nicht nur in Österreich Menschen, die
sich der quasi naturgegebenen Geschlechtszuordnung widersetzen, zu Operationen
gezwungen. Schon allein zur Annahme eines passenden Vornamens müssen sie sich oft
der Psychiatrie, öffentlichen Gerichtsverfahren und Operationen unterwerfen.“
Doch selbst nachdem sich TransGender allen erdenklichen „geschlechtsanpassenden“
Operationen unterzogen haben, können sie sich in manchen Ländern nicht sicher sein,
dass ihr gelebtes Geschlecht anerkannt wird oder dass sie ihr ursprüngliches Geschlecht
nicht immer wieder preisgeben müssen: „Diese peinliche Offenlegung der Intimsphäre ist
längst nicht mehr notwendig“, beklagt TransX – Sprecherin und Buchautorin Eva Fels („Auf
der Suche nach dem dritten Geschlecht“) massive Eingriffe in die Persönlichkeits- und
Menschenrechte der Betroffenen. Selbsthilfegruppen in ganz Europa rebellieren dagegen.
Und es gibt auch bereits einige mühsam errungene Erfolge. Eva Fels: „In einigen
europäischen Ländern kann man schon ab Beginn des sogenannten Alltagstests mit
passendem Vornamen und adäquaten Dokumenten leben. In manchen Staaten, wie in
Großbritannien, wird nun auch unabhängig von Operationen die Geburtsurkunde geändert
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und es genügt eine psychologische Begutachtung. In Irland und Portugal dagegen kann
selbst nach geschlechtsanpassenden Operationen der Personenstand nicht geändert
werden.“
Trotzdem: „Ein neues Jahrzehnt für TransGenders!“ postulieren die AktivistInnen. Und um
das allzu dröge Fortschrittstempo in den Amtsstuben und gesetzgebenden Körperschaften
zu beschleunigen, kommt auf das Wiener Vernetzungstreffen mit seiner Forderung nach
„gemeinsamer politischer Arbeit über alle Grenzen hinweg“ einiges an Arbeit zu.
Ziele des Treffens, von der Antidiskriminierungsstelle der Stadt Wien unterstützt wird, sind
unter anderem:
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Europaweiter Erfahrungsaustausch
Länderspezifische Dokumentation zur sozialen und rechtlichen Lage
Zusammenstellung von Forderungen der teilnehmenden Gruppen
Formulierung und Abstimmung gemeinsamer Forderungen
Abklärung europaweiter politischer Aktivitäten
Dazu kommen Rahmenprogramme wie das Gastspiel der durch den Film VenuzBoys
„kultig“ gewordenen Kingz of Berlin bei TransMission, dem 10-Jahresfest von TransX im
Wiener Szenelokal Andino (5. November), ein Auftritt der Diseuse Lucy McEvil ebendort
und eine Fotoausstellung im Rathaus. Wie das Fest TransMission wird auch ein Vortrag
des bekannten US-Queer-Aktivisten Patrick Califia am 5. November und die Präsentation
der Kongressergebnisse am Nachmittag des 6. November öffentlich sein.
Zu welchen Ergebnissen der Rat kommen wird, zeichnet sich nach den Vorbereitungen
schon ab. TransX-Sprecherin Eva Fels: „Im Sommer haben wir alle teilnehmenden
Gruppen gebeten, ihre wichtigsten Forderungen einzubringen. Wir waren überrascht, dass
trotz sehr unterschiedlicher rechtlicher und sozialer Bedingungen weitgehende Übereinstimmung besteht. Auf den Punkt gebracht: Anerkennung. Wir wollen Anerkennung
unseres eigenen Geschlechts ohne Operationszwang und staatlichen Geschlechtsterror.
Genauso wie früher die Nennung von Rasse und Religion in den Ausweispapieren
dokumentiert hat, worauf es bei der Unterscheidung von Menschen ankam, tut das heute
noch die Nennung des Geschlechts. Der Staat soll uns ungeachtet unserer Herkunft,
Religion und unseres Geschlechtes behandeln. Wir fordern die Anerkennung unserer
selbst bestimmten Geschlechtlichkeit ohne Diskriminierung und Diskreditierung. Auch
wenn TransGenders in vielen Ländern zu schwach sind, um etwas zu verändern:
Gemeinsam haben wir die besseren Chancen, diesen sexistischen Strukturen etwas
entgegen zu setzen.“
Aktuelle Informationen: http://tgeu.net (Englisch)
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Facts & Figures
Zur Teilnahme an der Ersten Europäischen TransGender Ratsversammlung (3. bis 6. November
2005) in Wien werden über 120 TransGender-Aktivisten und -Aktivistinnen aus ganz Europa
erwartet. Sie repräsentieren rund 60 Gruppen und Organisationen. Dabei werden nicht nur
westeuropäische Länder vertreten sein, in denen TransGender-Initiativen schon seit Jahren
existieren. Erstmals in einem solchen Rahmen werden sich auch Gruppen aus Russland, der Türkei,
von einzelnen Balkanstaaten und den sogenannten „neuen“ EU-Mitgliedsstaaten zu Wort melden.
Stichwort TransGender
TransGender-Personen sind Menschen, die aus den verschiedensten Motiven Geschlechtsgrenzen
überschreiten. Einige gehen den „klassischen transsexuellen“ Weg, der mit einer gegengeschlechtlichen Hormontherapie und geschlechtsangleichenden Operationen verbunden ist. Die
meisten leben vorübergehend oder kontinuierlich im „anderen“ Geschlecht, ohne über das für sie
essentielle notwendige Maß körperlicher Anpassungen hinauszugehen.
Das Spannungsfeld zwischen sozialem Umfeld, medizinischer Unterstützung und staatlicher
Anerkennung der eigenen Identität gestaltet sich für TransGender-Personen innerhalb der
europäischen Union sehr unterschiedlich.
Manche Staaten - wie etwa Ungarn - verlangen für die rechtliche Anerkennung des Identitätsgeschlechts lediglich einen psychiatrischen Befund. In Großbritannien wird darüber hinaus eine
zweijährige Lebenspraxis im anzuerkennenden Geschlecht verlangt. In den meisten Staaten
Westeuropas können die Dokumente nur geändert werden, wenn sich die Betroffenen nach
Therapien auch einer Reihe von geschlechtsanpassenden Operationen unterziehen. Die
Bundesrepublik Deutschland fordert darüber hinaus explizit die Sterilität ein.
In Irland und Portugal ist eine rechtliche Anerkennung des neue Geschlecht unter keinen
Umständen möglich.
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Das Programm der Ersten Europäischen TransGender Ratsversamlung
Donnerstag, 3. November
10:30
Pressekonferenz
18:00
Registrierung und Get-In-Touch-Meeting.
Freitag, 4. November
09:00
Eröffnung
09:30
Vortrag Stephen Whittle, Press for Change (GB):
TransGender und die EU: gesetzliche Lage, Menschenrechte, Direktiven, Gesetze und Beschlüsse
10:30
Kaffeepause
11:00
Vorträge von Joanne Sinclair, TNUKdigest (GB) und Simona Vivaldo, trans-european.org. (I):
TransGender in Europa: Vergleich von Gesetzen, Rechtssprechung und der gesellschaftlichen Lage
12:00
Organisatorisches: Zum weiteren Ablauf der Tagung
12:30
Mittagspause
14:00
Kurzpräsentationen: Spotlights auf die TransGender-Politik
Gesetzgebung in Spanien und Belgien / Zur Situation in Russland / TransGender-Jugendliche /
Zur Situation in Portugal / Geschlechtswechsel am Arbeitsplatz
16:30
Kaffeepause
17:00
Offenes Forum: Gruppenpräsentationen
19:00
Ende des ersten Tages im Rathaus
20:00
Gemütliches Treffen bei einem Sieveringer Heurigen
Samstag, 5. November
09:00
Podiums-Diskussion: TransGender-Bewegung und Strategien
Teilnehmer: Armand Hotimsky (FR), Eva Fels (A), Alex Moro (I). Moderation: Justus Eisfeld (B)
11:00
Kaffeepause
11:30
Kurzpräsentation von Jo, TransX (A): Zum Aufbau vernetzter Strukturen
12:00
Kurzpräsentation von Eva Fels, TransX (A): TransGender Politik - Unsere Forderungen
12:30
Mittagspause
13:30
Arbeitsgruppen: Formulierung von Zielen und Forderungen
16:00
Kaffeepause
16:30
Präsentation der Ergebnisse der Arbeitsgruppen und Abstimmung
18:00
Ende des zweiten Tages im Rathaus
20:00
Referat von Patrick Califia: Zur Politik des TransGenderismus
21:00
TransMission: 10-Jahre-TransX Jubiläumsparty. Mit Lucy McEvil und den Kingz of Berlin
Sonntag, 6. November
11:00
Brunch
12:30
Bekanntgabe der Abstimmungsergebnisse
13:00
Podiums-Diskussion: Aussichten und Pläne
14:00
Kaffeepause
14:30
Öffentliche Präsentation der Ergebnisse der Ersten Europäischen TransGender-Ratsversammlung
16:00
Ende der Veranstaltung
Aktuelle und ausführlichere Programm-Informationen: http://tgeu.net -> [Program]
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Kurzfassungen der Referate
Trans People: Our Welcome in Europe
Stephen Whittle, Press for Change, Great Britain
I will review the the current legal and social positions of trans people as European Community citizens.
I will address the inter-state complexities and legal lack of knowledge as it relates to many trans people‘s
lives, in particular how current national laws contradict many of the main rights of being a European
Community citizen, causing conflict and uncertainty in the day to day lives of transgender and transsexual
people.
I will point out some of the areas of law for where it not only needs clarifying, but in which we need to be
campaigning to make sure it is both know and acted upon.
A Comparison of European Transgender Laws
taking into account Cultural and Social influences
and National Legal and Medical Requirements
Joanne Sinclair, TNUKdigest, Great Britain
A comparative examination of the legal, medical and social issues affecting trans people. This will include,
the right to adopt a name reflecting the desired gender. The comparative procedures for a change of civil
status and the safeguards for data protection and confidentiality.
The availability of sex affirmation surgery and associated surgeries such as Facial Feminisation surgery
together with the availability of hormonal treatment and the funding of such provisions.
The Europe-wide social attitudes towards trans people, including discrimination in the work-place and in the
field of the provision of goods and services. The security of trans people in employment, education and
training, particularly in the early stages of transition.
The relationship of discrimination in these areas and the numbers working in the sex industry. The frequency
of violence and discrimination in public and the family.
The requirement in some states for divorce prior to sex affirmation surgery. Are Civil Unions an inferior
status to marriage. Should not Civil Marriage be open to all? The emphasis on infertility in some countries
given the technology to preserve genetic material prior to hormone treatment.
The necessity to appreciate that increasing medical knowledge firmly places Transsexuality within the
definition of Intersex. More important is the extension of categories within Discrimination Law particularly
helpful? Is it not more important to have a constitutionally embedded requirement for non discrimination in
general? Also the need for a Human Right to Bodily Integrity. Can we learn anything in Europe from the
United States developing „Queer Theory“ which enables fluidity of movement between genders, what I have
called „Flexigender“, and which allows us to concentrate on the person and not what they are?
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First law on transsexuality in Belgium: a bridge too far?
Joz Motmans, Policy Research Centre on Equal opportunities (university of Antwerp)
& Genderactiongroup, Belgium
In 2004, 4 Belgian politicians submitted a „law proposal about transsexuality“, hereby following European
Resolution (12/09/1989) that asked member states to regulate the right of transsexuals on endocrinological,
plastic-chirurgical and esthetical gender change, containing the juridical right to change ones first name and to
correct the gender on the birth certificate and identity papers.
In this limited overview, I will present the „life course“ of this proposal, the main (political) actors who were
involved, the mayor objections formulated by TG-groups, and the current state of affairs. Since the debate is
still goign on, there are no definite results yet, but interesting observations on (non-)cooperation could be
made.
Transsexuality in Spain: Close to legal solutions
Alec Casanova, Coordinator of the Transsexuality and Gender Identity Group (GIGT)
of Colectivo Lambda in Valencia, Spain
Since 1983 the sex change is no longer punished by law in Spain. But all the medical care and legal burocracy
transsexual people need to undergo to get our registered name and sex changed, have not been ruled yet.
There’s only one autonomous community, from the seventeen which conform the Spanish State, which has
included the complete medical care for transsexual people in the Community Health Service. This situation is
due to the decentralization of the National Health Service among the different Autonomous Communities.
The legal situation is due to be regulated on the next months with the „Ley de Identidad de Género“ (Gender
Identity Law). Until now, 2005, transsexual people had to go to court demanding sex and name change on our
birth certificates. On these trials we are obliged to undergo a medical examination, which is inhuman. On top
of this, judges have the last word on our identity. Thus if anyone has a conservative judge on the trial we are
quite sure we won’t get the name and sex change on our birth certificates.
When the Gender Identity Law becomes a reality, transsexual people will only need the certificate of a
psychologist and the endocrinologist who are attending us to be able to change our registered name and sex on
our birth certificate.
In 1989, The European Parliament passed a Resolution on the discrimination of the transsexual people in
which requests the States members to pass dispositions on the rights of the transsexuals and the prohibition of
discrimination.
The current situation in Spain is that of persistent discrimination at both legal and social level toward the
transsexual people. This discrimination has led to labour exclusion and social scorn of the transsexual
community.
Taking into account the above depicted situation, the following measures are claimed by the transsexual
community in Spain:
• The inclusion in the National Health Service of the transsexual process (psychological support
treatments, hormonal and surgical).
• The regulation of the registered name and sex change in our birth certificate.
• The concession of asylum on grounds of transsexuality.
• Educational programmes which help society understand the transsexual situation.
The government’s financial aid to transsexual associations on their self-help groups.
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Mediterranean Sun and Sea is not always pretty to see
Jó Bernardo, a.trans, Portugal
Transgenderism is a widely unknown reality in Portugal.
There are no statistics concerning the transgender population, and investigation in this field is limited by the
difficulties in accessing individuals that lack support from the law and are stigmatised by society in general.
There are many false beliefs attributed to transgenderism, like for example that all transgender people are sex
workers or have some other type of night life activity (like strippers or drag show performers). In fact, the
most visible part of the transgender community, either national or emigrated from Brazil or from ancient
Portuguese African Colonies like Angola, São Tomé e Principe or Mozambique has a professional activity
related with one of these two (or both) areas.
In a study conducted in 1998 with a sample of approximately 50 transgender individuals, some important
issues were identified; a significant majority of the sample came from rural parts of the country (45%) from
this sample 28% had changed from their birthplace because of their sexual orientation. 39% are originally
from the city and 16% are foreigners.
There are no specific laws in the country regarding transgenderism or transexualism, only a few court
sentences that serve as references about the later and that are sometimes contradictory. In fact, name change is
possible for any citizen that wishes it and is a relatively accessible procedure, but only when the new name
belongs to the same gender category as the previous one or to a gender-neutral name. This last case is the
chosen one by several transsexuals in order to avoid the complicated procedure to have gender identity
recognised. For this, the person has to go through a complicated legal process, and it can only occur with the
decision of a court of law.
Since 1996, sex change operation is possible and occurs in Portugal. It was only that year that the Portuguese
Medical Order allowed it to happen. However, no information is available regarding the real number of
operations performed in the national territory. Nevertheless, the process to have a sex change operation is long
and implies a severe psychological and psychiatric evaluation in order to verify whether the candidate is
eligible for the process.
Besides, transgender persons were until the last 10 years socially not well seen, and were very often,
disregarded as well as discriminated. However, as in the case of homosexuality, the traditional Portuguese
„tolerance“ is usually prevalent in the contact with transgender individuals.
For a couple of years now several institutions working in the field of HIV prevention have organised an
annual transvestite gala on the 1st of December (World AIDS Day) to gather funding for the fight against
AIDS. This gala has considerable impact in the media. Many other Trans people have in the last years
contribute for changing the mainstream idea about the transgender community due to the visibility and
recognition in their professions like Human rights activists, Models, Medicine Doctors, Lawyers or
Journalists.
Young Transgenders:
Between discrimination and (in)visibility?
Ammo Recla, Inbetween, Germany
First we will introduce ourselves and our project. After that we will portrait the legal and social situation of
young transgenders in Germany with the focus on Berlin where the situation is very different to the one in the
rest of the country.
Then we will speak about the special needs of young transgenders from the perspective of the work in our
project. Here we will differentiate into needs in the transgender scene and needs in the help for young people
(e.g. youth welfare, youth work).
We will close our spotlight with a hypothesis about how the definition of trans identities among young
transgenders has changed over the last decade.
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Transphobia in Russia
Brian Dark, LGBT Center together, Russia
Unfortunately, there are few transgender specialists in Russia. They work only in big cities, such as Moscow,
St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk. They say there are some transgender specialists in Rostov-NaDonu, but anyway the situation is far from perfect.
Doctors (psychiatrists) often don’t see the difference between transgender inclination and schizophrenia .
They mix up self-idendification with sexual orientation. There are few endocrinologists, who can find proper
medication for therapy. That’s especially important for MtF. The situation with the surgery is much better.
There are different methods of operations and there’s always a choice. However sometimes doctors show
homophobia and transphobia, for example, they can say to MtF person: “You can’t become a woman with
such an ugly face!” or to FtM person: “Never tell me about yourself as a man! That insults me, because this is
me who is a REAL man!”
Transgender people often face homophobia and transphobia, especially in small towns. Transgender people
are often abused, insulted and raped. (That referres to MtF and FtM) However, victims seldom go to the
police. There are cases, when transgender persons went to the police, but they were refused any help, because
there is also great homophobia among policemen.
There were precedents when a transgender person lost his/her work because of the change of his/her sex. Now
some transgenders try to go to the law, but they succeed rarely. That’s why most transgenders think that the
best way is to earn money for transition, to change sex and documents and only then – to try to find a new job.
Many transgender people change their place of living, as a rule they move to big cities, for example Moscow
and St. Petersburg, because relatives refuse to communicate with them anymore and are ashamed of them.
In the media this topic has scandalous and marginal trace, most „normal people“ think that transgenders are
prostitutes or people, lost for the society. However, in recent years there have been people in Russia who try
to do their best to give true information about transgender people. For example, in the summer of 2005 there
were series of transmissions about transgender people on one of the main Russian TV-channels with a
presenter Elena Malisheva. Unfortunately, there were great problems with this material, they even try to
forbid it, so it was reduced and shown, but not in prime-time as it was promised to authors of the material.
Nowadays, transgender problem is considered to be completely medical one. That means that only doctors
deal with transgenders, but there is no social support for them. There was a group of psycological help for
transgenders in Moscow, in the winter of 2004/2005, but it has stopped its activity, because the price turned
out to be too high for Russian transgenders - $70 per months for 4 meetings a month. Few transgender people
in Russia can be solvent enough.
Since 2004 there appeared new groups of psycoligical support, but they are not professional, as they are
organised by transgender people themselves. These are simply meetings of transgenders and they are usually
held at home of some friend of the community. So, they are rather scanty and not stable.
There are some internet resourses about transgenders in Russia and that fills up the lack of information – for
example www.transsexuals.ru with law and medical sourses, forum, photos of participants etc. Transgender
people can share their opinion and experience there.
There is no fixed document in Russian legislation, which lets a determine sequence of changing the
documents simultaneously or before changing the sex. Few people can change documents before the
operation. As a rule, a transgender person is observed in some medical centre during a year, and then a
committee gives him/her a permission to change the sex. Only after first series of operations have been made,
a transgender person can change documents.
In 1970 Professor A.I. Belkin become the first to study transsexuality in Russia. He created Moscow Centre of
Psyco-Endocrinology, which studies transgender problems.
We would like to find new friends among foreign transgender people, to learn their experience with
homophobia and transphobia and their adaptation after the change of the sex. We are interested in everything
connected with the life of transgender people abroad.
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Teilnehmende Länder und Gruppen
TeilnehmerInnen der Ersten Europäischen TransGender Ratsversammlung:
Etwa 120 Personen, die 64 Gruppen aus 23 Ländern vertreten.
Österreich
GenderTalk
Grüne Andersrum
http://feminismus.transgender.at
www.gruene-andersrum.at/kontakt
TIS Salzburg
www.salzburg.transgender.at
TransGender Linz
www.linz.transgender.at
TransGender Steiermark
www.graz.transgender.at
transgender.at
http://transgender.at
TransX - Austrian TransGender Association
Belgien
www.transx.at
GAG - Genderactiongroup
www.genderactiongroup.net
Trans Action
www.trans-action.org
Bosnien
Q - Queer zajednice u Bosni i Hercegovini
Kroatien
Zenska Soba
Tschechien
Transforum
www.transforum.cz/tf
Transslide
www.transforum.cz/tf
Dänemark
www.queer.ba/
www.zinfo.hr/engleski/index-eng.htm
PFT
www.pft.dk/
Trans-Danmark
http://trans-danmark.dk
TS-Kontakt
http://tsinfobar.dk
Europa
ILGA Europe
Finnland
Trasek Net
Ex-Jugoslawien
SEE Q - South Eastern European Queer Network http://www.queer.ba/seeqeng.htm
Frankreich
CARITIG
www.caritig.org
Deutschland
Inbetween
www.abqueer.de
www.ilga-europe.org
www.trasek.net
Kingz of Berlin
Polymorph
www.kingzofberlin.de
www.tgnb.de/gruppen/polymorph.html
Sonntagsclub
TGNB - TransGender Netz Berlin
TGNB WB - Wissenschaftlicher Beirat des TGNB
Transgender-Radio
TransInterGenderSex
transray.com
TransSisters Berlin
Wigstöckel
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www.sonntags-club.de
www.tgnb.de
www.tgnb.de/WBmain.html
www.transgenderradio.de
www.tgnb.de/gruppen/tigs.html
http://transray.com
www.transsisters.de
www.wigstoeckel.com
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Großbritannien
a:gender
www.ftm.org.uk
FTM Network
GIRES - Gender Identity Research and Education Society
www.gires.org.uk
Press for Change
www.pfc.org.uk
The Gender Trust
www.gendertrust.org.uk
TNUKdigest
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TNUKdigest
Transmarriage
Transsexual UK
www.transyouth.org.uk
TransYouth
TS TV Newsletter
www.tstv-news.co.uk
Ungarn
Tranny Club
Island
FSS - Organisation of LGBT Students in Iceland
Irland
TSI - Trans Support Ireland
Italien
Arcitrans
http://gay.mis.is
www.arcitrans.it
CGIL - Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro
www.cgil.it/org.diritti
Crisalide - AzioneTrans
www.crisalide-azionetrans.it
Gruppo Luna of Turin -
www.mauriceglbt.org
M.I.T. - Movimento di Identita Transsexuale
www.mit-italia.it/prima.htm
trans-european.org
Niederlande
ww.trans-european.org
LKG T&T - Landelijke Kontaktgrouep T&T
www.lkgtent.nl
T-Image -
www.t-image.org
Portugal
a.trans
Russland
LGBT Center together
Spanien
GIGT - Grupo de Identidad de Genero y Transsexualidad
http://a-trans.planetaclix.pt/index.html
http://gay.ru/english/index.htm
http://gigt.org
FELGT - Federacion Estatal de Lesbianas, Gays y Transsexuales
Schweden
FPE-S - Freedom of Personality Expression
GLBT-Socialdemocrats
Ukraine
Lambda Istambul
www.fpes.se/
www.hss.socialdemokraterna.se/styrelse.asp
RFSL - Riksförbundet För Sexuellt Likaberättigande
Türkei
www.felgt.org
www.rfsl.se
www.lambdaistanbul.org
Amargi
www.amargi.org.tr
ULGA
www.ugla.odessa.ua/enter.htm
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Forderungen der Organisation TransX für Österreich
Was wir wollen: T r a n s X Forderungspaket
Recht auf freien Ausdruck der eigenen Geschlechtlichkeit ohne Diskriminierung und
Diffamierung!
JedeR hat das Recht auf freie Wahl des eigenen Geschlechts und auf den uneingeschränkten Ausdruck aller
geschlechtlichen Empfindungen. Geschlechtskonformität darf kein Kriterium für die Achtung oder Missachtung von Menschen sein.
Das Verhalten und die Wahl der Kleidung sind persönliche Entscheidungen, die nicht mehr zu
Diffamierungen im Beruf und im Alltag führen dürfen. Wir fordern klare Gesetze, auf deren Basis sich auch
TransGender-Personen gegen sexistische Belästigungen und Diskriminierungen wehren können.
Recht auf freien Namenswahl!
In Österreich ist es nicht möglich einen Vornamen zu wählen, der nicht dem staatlich zugewiesenem
Geschlecht entspricht. Wer offiziell einen anderen Vornamen führen möchte, muss sich einer Zwangstherapie
und einer geschlechtsangleichenden Operation unterziehen1.
Wer sein Geschlecht auch in seinem Namen ausdrücken möchte wird als krank angesehen und zur Operation
getrieben. Wir fordern unverzüglich das Recht zur eigenverantwortlichen freien Wahl des Vornamens.
Keine Geschlechtsdiskriminierung in Ausweispapieren!
In den Pässen wird das staatlich zugewiesene Geschlecht ausgewiesen. Damit werden viele gezwungen eine
Geschlechtlichkeit zu deklarieren die ihrer Lebenspraxis widerspricht.
Genauso wie früher die Nennung von Rasse und Religion in den Ausweispapieren dokumentierten, worauf
bei der Unterscheidung von Menschen Wert gelegt wurde, tut es heute noch die Nennung des Geschlechts.
Der Staat soll uns ungeachtet unserer Herkunft, Religion und unseres Geschlecht behandeln.
Geschlechtsdeklarationen und Geschlechtsdiskriminierungen in amtlichen Ausweispapieren sind zu streichen.
Abschaffung unnötiger Untersuchungen von Transsexuellen!
Zur Änderung des Personenstandes müssen operierte Transsexuelle beim Institut für Gerichtliche Medizin der
Universität Wien ein Gutachten einholen, das die Durchführung der geschlechtsangleichenden Operation
bestätigt. Trotz des Vorliegens von Operationsberichten werden Transsexuelle noch einmal im Genitalbereich
inspiziert und müssen die dafür verrechneten Kosten auch zur Gänze selbst tragen.
Die Nachbegutachtung von Transsexuellen, die Operationsberichte aus dem Europäischen Raum vorlegen, ist
zu streichen.
Darüber hinaus ...
Darüber hinaus unterstützen TransGender-Personen alle Bemühungen zur Einführung eingetragener Partnerschaften ohne einer Diskriminierung nach dem Geschlecht.
Wir fordern die Sicherung und den Ausbau des Gesundheits- und Sozialsystems und die Gewährleistung von
Datenschutz bezüglich unserer gesundheitlichen und geschlechtlichen Entwicklung.
Der zentrale Punkt unserer gesellschaftspolitischen Forderungen bleibt jedoch das Recht zum freien Ausdruck
der eigenen Geschlechtsidentität. Sein Geschlecht in all seiner Vielfalt zu leben darf kein Grund für soziale
Diskriminierung sein!
1)
Geregelt in den Empfehlungen für den Behandlungsprozess von Transsexuellen in Österreich vom Juni 1997 und
dem "Transsexuellen Erlass" des Bundesministeriums für Inneres, Zahl: 36.250/66-IV/4/96 vom 27.11.1996.
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Zur TransGender-Ratsversammlung eingebrachte Forderungen
Siehe auch http://tgeu.net -> [Demands]
Im Vorfeld der TransGender Tagung haben viele teilnehmenden Gruppen schon ihre wichtigsten
Anliegen und Forderungen eingebracht. Die vorliegenden Dokumente bringen sowohl die
inhaltliche Übereinstimmung innerhalb der europäischen TransGender Bewegung zum Ausdruck,
wie auch die kulturelle Vielfalt und die regionale Unterschiedlichkeit gesetzlicher Regelungen und
Bestimmungen, mit denen sie konfrontiert ist.
Allgemein sind nicht nur der Kampf um staatliche Anerkennung des gelebten Geschlecht, das Recht
auf freie und unbürokratische Wahl des Vornamens und Selbstbestimmung bezüglich der Art und
Reihenfolge operativer Eingriffe.
Mehrere Gruppen, genannt seien hier nur CARITIG aus Frankreich und die Gruppo Luna aus
Turin, fordern die Möglichkeit, die Änderung des Geschlechtseintrags in offiziellen Dokumenten
auch ohne verpflichtenden operativen Eingriff vornehmen lassen zu können.
Die belgische Gruppe Trans-Action, sowie das TransGender Netz Berlin zielen inhaltlich auf das
selbe ab, wenn sie einen Ausbau der Menschenrechte bezüglich persönlicher Selbstbestimmung und
Autonomie fordert.
Darüber hinaus fordern Gruppen wie der Sonntagsclub aus Berlin oder T-Image aus den Niederlanden eine finanzielle Unterstützung bei den medizinischen und sozialen Kosten des Übergangs.
Schutz gegen Diskriminierung mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf Schutz gegen Diskriminierung am
Arbeitsplatz haben trans-european.org aus Italien und die Grupo de Identidad de Genero y
Transsexualidad aus Spanien zu ihren Forderungen erhoben.
Forderungen, nach Themenbereichen zusammengestellt:
Anti Discrimination
Anti Discrimination Law
Having a specifying anti discrimination European law for transgender people and not only
European Court sentences. We must be present in any future European constitution as subjects for
whom is not allowed any kind of discrimination.
Specific anti-discrimination law at European level
Specific anti-discrimination law
No Discrimination
No more discrimination of transgender people
This means social change in attitude by the general public: transgender people should not be seen as
'outsiders' and treated as such.
No more discrimination and acceptance in today's society of GID-people
GID raises a lot of questions and evokes al too often the wrong picture in the mind of people.
Dissemination of correct information and campaigns for better understanding would dispel fears, refute
misconceptions and lead to a better understanding and acceptance from the rest of the
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Civil Status
Documents without Surgery
Possibility to change id documents without the need of demolition surgery.
Especially important when already under hormone therapy and with physical changes taking place.
No discrimination of sex in passports and other public identity papers
Declaring ones sex in passports implies severe problem for all travelling TGs but is not logical for
public security. To adjust the gender marks in identity papers transgendered persons are still forced to
undergo the procedures required by the state to recognise sex change. In fact, these entries express the
sexist ideology of the state similar as race and religion were shown in identity papers of racist and
fundamental regimes. But they imply also a severe discrimination of all people who don't represent one
gender all their lifetime.
Legalise Change of Birth Certificates
Legalise change of Birth Certificates
At the present time, only Andorra, Albania & here in the Republic of Ireland, Birth Certificates cannot
be changed.
No Sex Registration
Abolition of sex registration
Sex registration is private information that the state has no business with. Just as religion and race
registration were abolished, sex registration should be kept out of the state's records. Since the
abandonment of military service for men, there is no reason for the state to register one's sex at all. A
first step towards this abandonment could be a simplification of the process of name/gender change.
Recognition by the State without Surgery
A law allowing the change of the mention of the sex without obligation of SRS
But also assuring of the right of privacy, for example: The future card in France of the health care will
included the entirety of the medical file of the person. If this one does not wish to make known its
transsexuality with all its doctors, that will not be possible!
A law like UK or Spain allowing a full change of gender without to be obliged to undergo SRS
We think that every day of a transgender person lived with documents different from her/his new real
gender is a day spent in violation of privacy. So that kind of law is totally necessary. We provided to
interest Italian Privacy Authority questioning what written above but we still are waiting for reply. In
next months we will re-write in a way that Privacy Authority must reply.
All certificated sex entries should be adjusted according to the actually lived gender without
being forced to surgery.
Everybody should be respected in performing his/her own gender without defamation. The state might
register our gender but should neither force us to physical adjustments nor to unfold our privacy by
foreshowing a previous gender-status in any file public available. Living in one gender should be
sufficient for full official gender recognition.
The possibility of changing one's name and sex, stated at our birth certificate and DNI (National
Identification Card), without having to go through all surgeries. That is to say, we want our
psycho-social sex-gender to be considered as the one to rule. Up till now, we have been forced, by law,
to fulfil all surgery, even though, some of us have health problems with the anaesthesia and other parts
of the surgery, to obtain at court the sex and name change.
Human Rights
Self-determination
Enforcement of Human Rights concerning the bodily and psychological self-determination and
autonomy
Enforcement of the Human Rights of self-determination and autonomy
TransGender as Reason for Asylum
Recognition of trans* as a reason to be granted asylum
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Medical Treatment
Finance by Public Health Services
Better funding for treatment.
Treatment should be funded for all surgeries, psychotherapy sessions, medication etc. necessary for
somebody to live in the desired gender - be that male, female, neither of the two or somewhere in
between. Basically everything should be funded that makes it possible for somebody to manage/live
with their gender dysphoria: be it altered or unaltered bodies. Right now it is especially hard for people
who don't identify as 100% transsexual to have some kind of treatment and/or hormones and/or
surgeries
Free choice of the doctors (private or public hospitals) and funded by the Health Care.
Only some medical teams are recognized and give the possibility to the transsexuals of being funded
with the Health Care. If a person goes in the private one, it will have to pay from its pocket the surgery.
That represents in France one of the most significant problems.
Lack of medical services & a great lack of trained professionals in the field of Transgenderism.
Hormones available through national health service.
Having to take hormones for our whole life, we should be included in the categories for which
hormones are "life-saving medicines".
Medicine generally
Inclusion of the whole transsexualizing process, starting from the point in which people search
for information on transsexuality, psychological. hormonal therapy, surgery and any implications
this process has on our health. We think that there may be people who may need information to clear
out the doubts they have about their possible transsexuality, which is a previous step to the indication of
the psychological therapy. We also think that our body, once it has been modified, will need special
treatment on some illnesses common to non-transsexual people. Therefore, it is not only the process we
need coverage, but the whole health understood from the point of view of transsexuality.
Self-determination
No interference of any kind of authority in the medical treatment of GID
No statutory determination of GID. No legislation concerning the dispensation of medical care nor its
treatment. No restrictions of any kind and the right to choose one's doctor
Total free transition in a different ethiology of transgenderism (no more psychiatric, or not in the
way we are now in DSM IV and ICD 10).
We are close to diffidate the Ministry of Public Health because HRT is not free for transgender. We
know and think that the only reason of this exclusion is a discriminitatory one.
No Force to Divorce
No Force to Divorce
No automatic and forced divorce in case of sex change. That should be a free choice of the
spouses.
Right of Name
Free Choice of Name
Free choice of ones first name without need of undergo SRS or any other surgery
Free choice of ones first name
Each person should have the right to change her first name in self-responsibility regardless of her sex.
Names express personality and identity. The adoption of an official name should take place according
to one's own declaration. People must not be forced to psychiatric and medical treatment respectively
specific legal proceedings when they choose a name not according to their native sex.
Every person from 18 years and above should be able to change their first name to a gender
specific name without any bureaucratic obstacles.
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Social Issues
Acceptance of Gender Diversity
The Questioning and Criticism of the two-sex/gender-order.
Recognition of the gender diversity as a logical part of our society.
At the medical level by an exit of the DSM and ICD. But also by a better training of the professionals, a
governmental financial support for non profit transgender organisations, information campaigns in
direction of general public, etc.
Acceptance in today’s society.
Even in 2005 many people have where little knowledge about transgendered people. Often people have
difficulties to distinguish between drags, transvestites and transsexuals, whish is clouding their mind.
Therefore we have to be better in communicating our message to the general public, in order to obtain a
better understanding and acceptance from the rest of the society.
Education in issue of Transgenderism
Education
Teachers and instructors in all areas, but with focus on education of young people, should be well
educated about transgender issues. They should be educated directly by transgender people.
Educating people at a very early age on the whole issue of Transgenderism
Organized publicity campaigns within the schooling systems to bring greater understanding to a whole
new generation & thereby attempt to eradicate discrimination within a generation.
Financial Support of non-pathologizing TG/IS Infra
Support (e.g. financial among other things) of non-pathologizing TG/IS infrastructure (like
support and advocacy groups, centers and projects).
Support at the Work Field
Protection against dismissal
Transgender people, holding a job during the SRS period (not only surgery), should for a certain time
be protected against dismissal by law. The target should be a similar system like the maternity
protection for women after birth of a child.
We also demand positive discrimination at the work field because the transsexual population is
discriminated on grounds of the transsexuality
We want to achieve some income benefit for the employer who gives work to transsexual people. So it
would be as an incentive for them and for transsexual people.
TransGender Law
TransGender Law
Get a law that complies with transsexuality
Our main goal is to get a general law for transsexuality. At the moment many different laws in this
country has to be considered when dealing with transsexuals. Many of the laws that applies at the
moment are form the beginning of the 20'th century and where not intended to apply to people with
Gender Dysphoria Syndrome. At the moment our lawyers are looking into how many laws would be
affected if we would make a general law for transgendered people so that we are better prepared when
we talk to the political establishment. When dealing with a law complex, you have to make a political
decision on how to approach the problems and how to sell your ideas to the decision makers.
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