Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
Here, some excerpts from the panel "Women lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: Turning Against Homophobia, for their rights" , we do as LGBT Group 44 of Amnesty International-Mexico under the World Day Against Homophobia and the exhibition "Discriminate dehumanizes" Last year, for the same dates.
What made the group to combat the stigma of bisexuality?
"The Bisexual Option group, which we tried to do first was to understand what was this stigma of bisexuality, what their components, and we've tried to be dismantled, ie the Women who have a bisexual orientation are not promiscuous, there may be another and who is who no, but that does not matter if it's bisexual or not we are not infidels, we are able to establish long term. The issue of HIV infection is not dependent on sexual orientation are not indefinite, we are in transition. The orientation is not the only lesbian sexual orientation. We'll have to go beyond these dichotomies new gender (male-female, homosexual, heterosexual). Human reality, and as human and humane, we see that is more complex, richer, more full of possibilities and options. We are not unsafe, we know what we want, that's our definition, be bisexual. "
will need to continue fighting the invisibility of bisexual women, which just feeds the stigma: "we will continue to beat at the point, because it is easy to disappear from the map of the vision of people" .
The challenge is to demonstrate. "It's really very difficult to make visible, then the job is just trying to do from Option Bi: visible, fighting stigma. I say we work like ants ... Let pasito in step, not the path we have done lesbian and gay movement. As a movement we are just beginning, we simply position ourselves and say we are bisexual, and explain to gays and lesbians, or is to start at home first, as it somehow ".
"So, look, we just ten years, actually when compared to the work being gays and lesbians working, it's nothing, we are in the first steps and in diapers, we are only at this stage to inform and sensitize" .
Angie Rueda, transgender activist and official of CONAPRED.
"I am a transgender woman. I'm not quarreling with my biological birth sex, in my case. I know there are cases of extremely serious gender discrepancy that led to friends to self-mutilation or even suicide. "
about how she has experienced discrimination, said: " radical feminists and women ... lesbians-and that was a struggle that is taking place, do not consider me as a woman, that is, discrimination is between homosexual men who condemn the queens, transvestites, Jacks; conservative women do not consider me a woman, or lesbian feminist radical women who consider me a man failed, fifth columnist. But also within that trans women have an obsession with the imposition of the dictatorship of stereotypes, which it said Myramar, "who is the fair?, Which manages to pass as a woman to forget not only activism but pretend to forget who it was. I say this with respect, because the issue of gender dysphoria is a very serious issue, but have the risk of building, then, models of women under the stereotypes, the more conventional dictatorships. And we feel between us.
There are girls for whom transvestites people are like the last grade, the last leg ... and there are girls transvestites that even without hormonal reassignment for genetic issues, exercise, otherwise, would like Western women that are in television, and there are beautiful transsexual girls from that point of view, but always with the obsession that no one will discover why it is logical that lived a previous life ... "
Speaking of the changes that have come to life, now as a transgender activist, she says "Yes I have been given a vision, has given me an experience ... not only allowed me to regain my joy ... my children and Angiee, recover my joie de vivre, a sense of authenticity, dignity of who I am and what I believe, and I started talking with them, I just started to talk to them is a long road, is the bet of my life. "
Paulina Martínez coordinates Metal Muses Group AC Gay Women
your organization conducted an investigation on the discrimination lesbians and bisexuals who took two years. Through interviews, shaped the life stories of 42 lesbian and bisexual women, and focused on the analysis of 21. Most are from the Federal District, some from other states, and two Argentine and Guatemalan. Their ages range from 20 to 56 years. Some were mothers, other students, other professionals, some go to the group Metal Muses, some not, some have to do with activism and others do not also interviewed couples and also some women trans.
"The idea was to see or homophobic crimes transphobia are sometimes very violent, end in death, and then that makes them very bright and make an inquiry, not in all cases, not all countries, but what really stands out. The case of lesbian, bisexual, is not so well known because not always or necessarily grows into a murder. And maybe the violence experienced is not so great, why not them realize that lesbians are discriminated against and bisexual women either. Then, as a sector that we consider marginalized within the marginalization, we decided to do this research. "
" Women do not discuss with anyone about their orientation sexual, spends much time for it to open, and sometimes it depends on have found someone who supports them, maybe a first approach can make a big difference, but if not, reach adulthood in doubt with very little information. "
Most respondents reported that their homes had not been appointed the word" lesbian "during her childhood, however, they had heard homophobic messages about homosexuals. Indirectly understood that if they were gay, but had no awareness of the word, they were acting improperly. "lesbiandad do not talk about, but it is understood that homosexuality is wrong, and therefore does not manifest" .
Most families tend to make a remark to the attitudes they consider male. The word "butch", for example, was settled in the stories of those interviewed did not want to be so identified. "It is related to be butch to be inadequate, then I do not want to be inadequate, I have to adapt the model stereotypical female. And femininity is overvalued and going toward the male side is frowned upon ".
Magalli Piña, member of Group 44 of Amnesty International LGBT Mexico.
In 2005, Amnesty International's U.S. section, produced a report on police abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. "The results are staggering. In the most powerful country in the world the abuses against the LGBT community are equally powerful. "
In the U.S., LGBT people under 21 years suffer considerable harassment in school and increased risk of domestic violence. And it is estimated that some U.S. cities up to 40 percent of homeless youth are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual or transgender. This report shows that homophobia and racism often go together. A significant proportion of complaints against LGBT people as protagonists had individuals belonging to minority racial or ethnic groups. Age, socioeconomic status and immigration status contribute to increased risk of abuse by officials who must enforce the law.
"One of the difficulties which we faced each other in Amnesty International's researchers, is that when making his inquiries into abuses against LGBT people, both within the general community as part of state officials no information. The authorities suffer from it, also non-governmental organizations at the national or state level. And this is because there is no complaint, there is no monitoring of complaints when it comes any, to which often are so threatening them, to follow them, can make anyone give up, and feeling so vulnerable, much more. "
(Prepared by: Manuel Herrera L., Group 44 LGBT-AI Mexico)
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