(en) France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - Libertarian
resistance 1 - Pride: it remains to still fight for equality (fr, it,
pt) [machine translation]
In 1969, the United States, riots broke out in response to one of the many raids aimed
what is now called the LGBT community (Lesbian, Gay, Bis, Trans). By this violent and
daily repression, official (police raids, identity checks, denial of access to basic
rights ...) or informal (blows, insults, discrimination in recruitment, rape, bans
families , humiliation, mockery ...), the company along well LGBT return to their closets.
If law enforcement modes are sometimes more insidious, the situation has not changed much.
That is why, even today, we go out in the street because no one should have to hide. ----
State of play ---- Since the law allowing marriage to homosexual couples and adoption in
this context has passed, it is often said that equal rights was obtained. What about the
reality?
First, concerning the Taubira law. There is a state of racism dimension in access to
rights: in fact, it took a French-Moroccan gay couple go up courts of cassation in order
to validate his marriage, arguing that the prosecution celui- it should not be authorized
under an agreement between states.
Moreover, lesbians couples had to call for the adoption of their child conceived by LDCs
is finally recognized in court. It is therefore noted that it took in a number of cases,
conduct legal battles just for the law to be applied.
The law which governs the adoption is supposed to be applied to any child living in a
family founded by a couple. But contrary to his campaign promises, the government does
have buried the law authorizing the LDCs, and yielding to the pressures cathos and
reactionaries. In addition to the legal uncertainty that follows, this situation increases
social inequality since the couples are forced to go to other countries to be eligible for
LDCs, costly act, without any help or refund.
What equality and which rights?
Furthermore, the notion of equal rights for the LGBT community is much broader than the
issue of marriage and adoption.
- One can not speak of such equal rights as the civil status change for trans people is
still subject to a long and costly legal proceedings, the outcome is completely arbitrary
and depends on the judge. The practical consequence is that it makes it very difficult for
many trans people the fact of finding a job or housing.
- Likewise, access to health care for trans people remains uncertain: if the law is
supposed to guarantee everyone the free choice of doctor in the many facts are those who
refuse to follow the treatments related to transition, referring their patients to teams
"specialized" who often assume the right to decide who has the right to make a transition
according reactionary criteria and are present only in major cities, complicating the
access to care for a large part of the population. And do not talk about the issue of
reimbursement of a number of treatments (surgeries, waxing, ...), which is still subject
to administrative arbitrariness.
- One can not speak of equal rights in a context of renewed attacks against LGBT people.
These have indeed exploded in connection with the Manif for All: according to reports from
SOS Homophobia, the testimony of homophobic attacks increased by 78% between 2012 and 2013
and if the numbers have dropped a little in 2014, they are still 41% higher than the 2011
figures, before the discussions of marriage for you tou · · s. At the same time the courts
are relatively lenient with offenders, while a number of militant LGBT were sentenced for
having defended during an assault or for disturbing homophobic action.
- One can not speak of equal rights when we know that the suicide rate among LGBT youth
remains higher than among young heterosexual cis *. This is fueled by the climate of
homophobia and transphobia uninhibited in which we operate, among other relayed by the
"Manif for all" and "anti-gender".
The social destruction policy towards LGBT
If the government supposedly "socialist" proved incapable of the slightest political
courage when it came to oppose the reactionary and religious fundamentalists La Manif for
All, he has not shown the same timidity when it was to continue the policy of social
destruction and repression of previous governments. The Macron law and the law on
intelligence are two recent examples.
If these anti-social policies are detrimental to the entire working class, they may prove
even more catastrophic for groups who combine other oppressions, including lesbians, gays,
and trans bis. Labor code breaking policies may indeed hit particularly hard those people
who are already very precarious. Similarly, since the outing * remains a tool of pressure
or reprisals exercised facing gay people, bi or trans, the means given to intelligence and
lack of control may have even more impact when is also an LGBT person.
Fight for real equality of rights, so this is not just formal equality before the law in a
society which, moreover, goes against people and groups against each other and only allows
access to fundamental rights as those who have the financial means.
Fight for real equality of rights is to start by building solidarity between you to oppressed.
Because-Equal rights is not effective!
Because-lesbophobia, homophobia and transphobia kill!
Against domination hétéropatriarcale cissexiste * *!
Because this year, it is important to be visible and to allow our number to affirm once
again that our bodies belong to us and our courses!
Because all systems of domination mutually reinforcing fight against patriarchy,
capitalism and racism!?
Vocabulary:
Cis: cis person is someone whose gender matches the one assigned to him at birth.
Cissexisme: cissexisme is the oppression experienced by trans people.
Outing: Revealing without its consent, a person is homosexual, bisexual or trans.
Hétéropatriarcat: system which establishes the hierarchy between genres. This system is
intended to establish the domination of men over women, and will base on the injunction to
heterosexuality (so that the patriarchal scheme is the only possible) and cissexualité (to
present the kind not as a tool of domination but a fact of nature, purely biological).
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Resistors libertarians 1 - The state and employers are attacking us! Continuing the offensive!
http://www.c-g-a.org/motion/marche-des-fiertes-il-reste-encore-lutter-pour-legalite
