The Nationalist Youth of Lanzarote and the Lánzate LGTBI+ Association claimed this Tuesday, in an event organized at the Arrecife Youth House, the rights of trans people.
"Today, we want to say loud and clear that trans people and their families choose visibility. We show ourselves without fear because we want to be heard, because life does not grow in the darkness of closets, because it is our duty to continue claiming, in honor of those who did it before and to pass the baton to those who will do it later. We claim the space that cisheteropatriarchy denies us and that we are not going to let be snatched away. Gender identity disorder does not exist. What does exist is transphobia," it was pointed out at the Conference on Transsexuality, where the message was "loud and clear": "It is necessary to build a strategy that responds to the demands of these citizens".
With the aim of supporting trans people and claiming their rights, these conferences also included the presence of numerous organic positions of the Canary Coalition Lanzarote. "All of them aware of the importance of normalized inclusion in society of this group, made clear, with their presence, the importance of trans visibility," say the Nationalist Youth of Lanzarote.
"They kill us like cockroaches"
Along with the general secretary of the Nationalist Youth of the Canary Islands, David Toledo, the secretary of the Youth in Lanzarote, Sara Bermúdez, and the representatives of Lánzate, the true protagonists of the event were Tatiana (trans girl), Marcus (trans boy) and Encarna Páez (mother of trans girl).
Each of them spoke of their experience, of what it meant to take such an important step in their lives and of a society that does not quite accept transsexuality. "They study us, they touch us, they explain to us what is happening to us, they do thousands of tests to analyze the cause of our terrible evil, they analyze us, they hit us, they rape us... They treat us like children and they kill us like cockroaches." A reality to which the Nationalist Youth of Lanzarote say 'Trans depathologization, now'.
At the event held this Tuesday, the island director of Education, Mario Pérez, also announced the measures that are being implemented in all educational centers in order to normalize and make the path to trans people easier, an action program developed by the Government of the Canary Islands with LGTBI associations.
The screening of the video 'Grávido', which tells the harsh reality of a trans boy who becomes pregnant, and the painting of a bench with the colors of the trans flag, put the finishing touch to the conferences.