GATE joins today the global commemoration of the International
Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. As every year, May 17th
represent for us a renewed opportunity for calling to struggle
against homophobic and transphobic violence –and, in particular,
against all those forms of violence associated with gender
identity, gender expression and bodily diversity. We celebrate
those advances that, in different countries, are contributing to
substantially improve the legal and social situation of trans*
people, as well as the increased attention to their specific
issues at the regional and international human rights systems.
However, GATE notes with concern the persistence of those
conditions that, very often, sustain, produce and/or aggravate
transphobia: poverty; racism and xenophobia; institutional
violence (including schools, hospitals and law enforcement);
ableism; familiar and community violence; religious segregation
and persecution; media degradation; pathologization; lack of
access to gender recognition