Transgender Community in Portugal
From fifty persons, majority of them are from the field (45%), from cities (30%) and also an important number are foreign (18%) from France, Angola and Brazil. More than a half are dedicated to sexual work (56%) in the street; other places where develop this labor are the disco, the bar, massage house and their own house, in order of frequency. Most of them, the 70%, don’t have health insurance and this is a dramatic situation because all of them had almost one kind of disease of sexual transmission (50% syphilis, 27% herpes, 23% mycosis), and also VIH Aids, it have about 72% of the population. Hepatitis in many of their modalities is other problems that they present.
This research also includes a review of the legislation in Portugal in which don’t exist any law related with Tran’s needs and situation. Just as there was no specific law that enshrines rights to Portuguese transgender population, such laws still do not exist today. ILGA Word is performed the case law in recent decades that served and continues to serve as a legal reference in Portugal and showing that the latest decision is leaning in the opposite direction of legal developments in other countries.
In this context we could understand the ridicule result of the brutal murder of Gisberta that give only few months to the guilty. This research gives us a view of a society that don’t recognizes human rights of trans people, and continue with a prejudice vision of their identity. This is a situation that urges to change.
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