Stop Trans Genocide
Stop Trans Genocide
Stop Trans Genocide
[...] Every day millions of trans people experience rejection, stigmatization, harassment and physical violence for not complying with prevailing gender norms worldwide. They were also denied the right to obtain identity documents that reflect their gender identity, are fired from their jobs, denied basic public services, and face deep-rooted discrimination in the health and education sector. These abuses are systematic, but little reported. The response, both nationally and internationally, has been, almost without exception, inadequate. The legal obligations that states have to protect transgender people from violence and discrimination are different from those that states have towards all others. The rights of trans people are not segregated and are not a special subset of rights, these are Human Rights. Trans people are not an inferior class of people and have right to life, like any other human being. They must seek protection from arbitrary detention and torture; ensure non-discrimination and freedom of expression, association and assembly. These and many other rights are universal: accredited by international laws, but denied to many trans people simply because of their gender identity or gender expression. [...]
Trans women are killed primarily because be women, poor women, immigrants, or colored ... And many governments systematically tolerate or promote this extermination as a form of "social cleansing" and have their bodies as they do with the bodies of women cis (no-trans.) To all this is added the cisexism component (not recognized as "real" women) and transphobia, which intensify male violence within a structural context of violence and gender discrimination by their gender. It's a real FEMINICIDE because this genocide against trans women (primary victims) is due to a situation of structural gender violence against women, violence multiplied by cisexist and transphobic prejudice that make this gender violence increased proportionately and enormously against trans women. It is therefore essential to start talking about "FEMINICIDE TRANS" when referring to the entire series of murders of trans women by the virtue of being. And these murders should be counted along with the rest of femicide, with added differential treatment that arises from being a particular type of women, but including them. Also we should make visible all the persecution, violence and murder against trans men and gender variant people, that even being much smaller than the trans femicide is still proportionally much greater than of the population cis [non-trans].
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THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS to: 1st. Demand to the United Nations to urge its Member States to integrate as far as possible, the Yogyakarta Principles on the application and interpretation of domestic laws and international treaties on Human Rights in relation to gender identity. 2nd. Stop all the crimes against humanity that trans people come supporting over our civil and political rights recognized by national constitutions of the High Contracting Parties and / or international treaties on human rights ratified by those High Contracting Parties. 3rd. We demand also the cease all economic, social and cultural supporting violations over trans people that we repeatedly suffer under discriminatory rules. 4th. If any violation in the above rights occurs, enjoin to the competent internal authorities and the High Contracting Party, and especially including the Attorney, to prosecute and punish the offender or offenders as perpetrators of discrimination and hatred crimes against the dignity and the free development of personality. 5th. To restore the victim to the previous situation, or where this is not possible, either she or her family be compensated in proportion to the damage. 6th. The victims of such violations receive protection from the UN, if the authorities of the High Contracting Party does not provide such protection, and
7th. It guarantees the granting of political asylum to the victims of such violations in any member State of the United Nations which protect fundamental rights and civil liberties of trans people, if they continue these violations. ADDENDUM. If the Body to which this paper is addressed is not competent to give effect to these requests, we demand that you submit it to the competent body.
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For example, 2009 data from countries where no data are approximately half the world's population (and most of them are countries with a level of respect for human rights of transgender people and women in generally below the global average) ::
No data from China (the most populous country in the world, which alone accounts for 20% of the world population), Indonesia (4th most populous country in the world), Pakistan (6th country by population), Bangladesh (8th country) , Russia (9th), Afghanistan and Iraq (countries face very high levels of political violence, sexist, transphobic and homo / lesbo / bifbic (which number about 245 million people), nor of Africa (except Algeria), continent with 1,000 million inhabitants ... map 2009: http://www.transrespect-transphobia.org/uploads/downloads/TMM/TvT-TMM-MapTDOR2009-en.pdf GENOCIDE: How and what must be named if not the systematic murder of people of a sector of the population marginalized and excluded just for the fact of belonging to that sector of the population? How should you call if not, when the murder rate is the equivalent of several million people per year in the general population (between 6 and 11 million people killed a year, and probably more so)? Is there a more appropriate term to call it genocide?
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