Bulletin T-informa / Year II - 2009 - Issue 016
CONTENT
Article: National TransCrefor Meeting
Gabriela Galeano - Transcrefort
The III National Trans Meeting was held on April 4th, 5th and 6th in the city of Cordova. Twenty seven colleagues from around the country attended the meeting. The reunion was held at the headquarters of the Wings of 422 Fragueiro in Cordova...
Analysis and research about trans legislation: It happens everywhere: A Report of discrimination in the European Union
The second part of the report about homophobia and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity has just been published in the European Union. The first part contained the legal analysis and was on market in June 2008, this second part discusses the social situation, shows a difficult and harsh context, rather than the progress of the legislation....
Books: Mema's house. Drag queens, crazy ones and males
Prieur, Annick.
Translated by Julia Constantine and Irene Artigas.
Mexico DF: UNAM-PUEG, 2008.
This book is the doctoral thesis of Annick Prieur, where did his fieldwork in the House of Mema, Nezahualcoyotl city, a part of the Mexican State, but for reasons of the city growth has been located around the Federal District...
Action Alert: Perú: National Coordinator for Human Rights of Peru. Visibility of trans people in its 2008 Annual Report
The 2008 Annual Report. The difficult path to citizenship, the National Coordinator for Human Rights (CNDDHH) of Peru has included in the section 2.2.4, violence against citizens of the LGBT community (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transvestites), which is a more involving title instead of setting this group a different sexual preference because not all of them match with that concept...
Personalities:Dana International
Born Yaron Cohen 2 February 1972. She is an Israeli pop singer of a Yemenite Jewish origin. She is most famous for having won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Diva". She is arguably one of the most famous transsexual celebrities in the world
Arts: Alondra. The story of a transsexual
As the title says, this is not a story of super heroes and wonder women, but a story of courage. Alondra was born as a man and will have an appointment in Thailand the next month to make her dream come true: a surgery and sex change.
Mailbox: Hi, I'm Andre, a transsexual Colombian anthropologist. I’m worried about the mobilization against appearing in the next DSM - V manual, which is a complex issue with multiple edges. It is not something so simple I think, especially for transsexuals and transvestites like us who change our bodies to search our true identity.
ITS: Andre. Thank you very much for your letter. As you say this is a complex subject and makes clear the differences not only between identities represented in the T, but the various agendas that exist in different regions of the planet. This campaign is driven mainly from Europe and in Spain where it already has taken place several years ago. In Latin American countries there are other priorities such as how to access the health care, how to fight against violence and the access of job positions, not just trans people, but in the general population, that makes explicit the large gaps on having a common agenda.
Miguel Missé: My name is Michael and I wrote an article last April in the newsletter of ILGA Trans-rise where I suggested organizing a network coordinator to fight against gender identity disorder. I read your ideas carefully and I answer
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T-informa Bulletin
Financed by Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Trans and Intersexuals International Associated (ILGA) and
The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights ( RFSL)
Director: Belissa Andía Pérez / Editor: Bethsabé Huamán / Designer: Vanessa Laura / Translator:Janeth Roca Morales
Regional Collaboraters: LAC: Andrés Rivera / Europe: Justus Eisfeld / ANZAPI: Joey Mataele / USA: Aidan Dunn
