Every November 20 for twenty-five years, trans communities have gathered around the world to gather and commemorate the memory of those who died from transphobia and transmisogyny, murdered, committed suicide or from their precarious conditions and health. .
It is impossible to avoid transphobia. Transphobia kills, and these are not just words thrown into the air. Work, housing, health, family, administration, public places, media: we cannot escape patriarchal discrimination. The most affected are women, non-white people, undocumented immigrants, psychiatric patients, TDS and all workers. This marginalization is the cause of poor living conditions and fears of being put on the street, which pushes people to suicide and makes them even more vulnerable to attacks.
In total impunity and indifference.
We are experiencing in France and internationally an increase in transphobic acts linked to an anti-trans offensive by reactionaries. The United States and Russia have adopted laws that prohibit transitions and criminalize our lives. In France, after attacks, physical or media, against associations, planning, schools or doctors, the Senate adopted a law to prevent trans minors from benefiting from care.
This international offensive is part of a global process of reactionarization and fascistization of the bourgeoisie. Anti-migrant legislation, the expulsion of squats, social breakdowns including that of public services, anti-migrant lawsTDScomplacency with the genocide of the Palestinians, all this is part of a necropolitics which makes our death a variable in the adjustment of capital. This policy associated with militarization and pronatalism serves the imperialist projects of the bourgeoisie.
The bourgeoisie only wants our enslavement and our docility, it does not want us to be able to dispose of our bodies. She uses psychiatrization as a tool of control. Faced with the growing reaction, it is more than necessary for the entire social movement to affirm, reaffirm and concretely support its support for trans people around the world and the right to a free, free transition, without psychiatrists or judges.
These attacks on trans rights are also wherever they take place followed by serious attacks on reproductive rights, and women’s rights in general. November 25 will take place as the day to combat gender-based and sexual violence.
Trans women are particularly vulnerable to this violence. Thus we call for a mutual strengthening of these two events of homage and struggle.
Let’s make this day a moment of contemplation and homage for our sisters, brothers and Adelphi who died of transphobia and transmisogyny.
Let us also make this day a moment of struggle against the racist, sexist, heterosexual bourgeoisie which oppresses us. We call for TDoR gatherings to be held throughout France.
L’OST
Commemorative and protest gathering following the assassination of Frida
Wednesday November 20, 2024 at 6:30 p.m., place Paul Éluard, metro 12 (Marx Dormoy)
