(en) France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - Facing
transphobia only struggle pays! (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
Like every year for the past 19 years, trans people, intersex and their supporters
demonstrated in the streets of Paris to claim rights and papers. The Anarchist Groups
Coordination supports the initiative and will attend the event this Saturday, October
17th. ---- October 17 will be held for the 19th time Existrans, walking claim to the
rights of trans people. Indeed, they are forced to face real barriers to access to medical
treatment (including hormones and surgery) allowing them to change their body, or to make
a change in family status, and being issued gender identity papers in which they live.
---- The institutional transphobia conveys and reinforces room transphobia that flows from
patriarchy. Indeed, it recognizes only two possible identities, termed natural,
well-defined roles - men and women. It denies the fact that these are social
constructions, characterized by an oppressive report of a dominant group (men) on a
subordinate group (women). This patriarchal system allowed people to live their identity
as they wish and the freedom to tou-te-s to dispose of their bodies.
Transphobia creates a precarious situation for trans people who have great difficulty in
finding a job or access to health. In everyday life, trans people face violence, whether
in the street, at work, in the private sphere (family, etc.) or in institutions
(administration, police, prison, etc.).
An example of winning fights: the example of Ireland
This summer 2015, a law was adopted in Ireland allowing trans people to change their civil
status upon declaration. Thus, after Denmark and Malta, Ireland became the third country
to facilitate the change of civil status for trans people: the "Gender Recognition Bill"
(law on gender recognition in French) allows transgender people determine freely their
gender marital status, without having to undergo a medical procedure.
Against transphobia struggle against patriarchy!
If we support the struggles for concrete legislative measures, such as a simplified change
in family status or a better consideration by doctors, we believe that they alone would be
insufficient, and it is also essential to fight against the whole patriarchal system, to
end all oppression and violence resulting, sexism, homophobia and transphobia. This system
of domination and exclusion reinforces insecurity and violence generated by all forms of
exploitation and domination that cross society (capitalist exploitation, racism, etc.).
Thus, it appears we need to fight against all operating systems and domination, for the
emancipation of all. As anarchists, we believe that only self-organized struggles and
self-management allow us to get out of such systems, that those who benefit have a vested
interest in preserving. Such self-organization can be truly effective only if those
concerned can now fully take their place in militant organizations of their choice and in
the struggles. Therefore, we are committed daily against sexism, homophobia, transphobia,
racism, state domination and capitalist exploitation, and wear our breaking claims, for a
libertarian and egalitarian society.
We call on you to participate in the march of Existrans Saturday, October 17 at 14h,
departure at Stalingrad (in Paris).
You can also read on our website the leaflet distributed last year:
http://www.cga.org/sites/default/files/existrans_2014_cga.pdf and our anti-patriarchal
motion http://www.cga.org / content / the-fight-anti-patriarchal.
In October 2015,
External Relations of the Coordination of Anarchist Groups
http://www.c-g-a.org/content/face-la-transphobie-seule-la-lutte-paie
