INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR TRANS DEPATHOLOGIZATION 2017 – JOINT STATEMENT
This year, the International Day of Action for Transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. Depathologization has a particular relevance for all our communities around the world: the largely due process of revision and reform of the tenth version of International Classification of Diseases will be completed next year. We expect the World Health Assembly to pass a new ICD (called ICD-11) in June 2018. During the upcoming months all of us will be working together to accomplish transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. depathologization while ensuring full access to healthcare and its coverage.
The technical and political process around ICD-11 still poses serious challenges, including the continuing pathologization of genderrefers to a social construct which places cultural and social expectations on individuals based on their assigned sex. diversity in childhood, the lack of transparent and official information and the exclusion of transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. people from decision-making processes. However, this particular edition of the International Day of Action for Transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. Depathologization requires to expand the focus of our shared statement to reflect on extremely concerning developments.
In spite of some key advances in legal gender recognitionlaws, administrative procedures or processes by which a person can change their sex/gender marker and names on official identity documents., access to transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. specific healthcare is still conditioned by pathologizing requirements in most countries where available. It is necessary to remember, today more than ever, the intrinsic connection between transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. depathologization and the right of taking autonomous decisions about our own bodies. That connection is not only denied by the persistence of pathologization as a requirement for accessing hormones, surgeries and other genderrefers to a social construct which places cultural and social expectations on individuals based on their assigned sex. affirming procedures, but also by socioeconomic injustice.
Worldwide, transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. people face increasing barriers in accessing transitional healthcare, due to the deadly combination of massive impoverishment, shrinking public health systems, privatization of healthcare and institutional stigma, discriminationunequal or unfair treatment which can be based on a range of grounds - such as age, ethnic background, disability, and diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions or sex characteristics, amongst others. and violence. Asylum seekers, refugees and migrants are severely impacted in different regions. Budget cuts are affecting transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. people´s access to other treatments, including those for HIV, Hepatitis C, tuberculosis and removal of industrial silicone. In this political context, many transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. people are forced to join the military to secure, to be diagnosed as mentally or physically disordered, or to renounce their sexual and reproductive rights just to have access to healthcare. Governments and media contribute to create and reproduce the idea of transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. people’s health needs as burdensome, unfair when compared with other health issues (i.e., cancer) and privileged, aggravating cissexism and transphobiarefers to negative cultural and personal beliefs, opinions, attitudes and behaviours based on prejudice, disgust, fear and/or hatred of trans people or against variations of gender identity and gender expression.. Transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. exclusionary dynamics are being deeply worsened by other associated human rights violations, including the widespread revival of so called “conversion” and “reparative” therapies, the legal and religious persecution against LGTB people in different countries, and the constant reality of violence against transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. and genderrefers to a social construct which places cultural and social expectations on individuals based on their assigned sex. diverse people and the impunity of its perpetrators.
On this International Day of Action for Transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. Depathologization, we call our communities and allies to come together for everyone’s universal access to legal gender recognitionlaws, administrative procedures or processes by which a person can change their sex/gender marker and names on official identity documents., to healthcare and its coverage, to protection against all forms of stigma, discriminationunequal or unfair treatment which can be based on a range of grounds - such as age, ethnic background, disability, and diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions or sex characteristics, amongst others. and violence, and to adequate reparations. In this world, transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. depathologization is not only about the psycho-medical classification of our lives, but about our very right to live.
In solidarity,
Mauro Cabral Grinspan
Executive Director Global Action for Transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. Equality (GATE)
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Amets Suess Schwend
Member of the coordination team STP, International Campaign Stop Transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. Pathologization
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Richard Köhler
Senior Policy Officer Transgender Europe (TGEU)
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Cianán B. Russell
Human Rights & Advocacy Officer Asia Pacific Transgender Network (APTN)
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Viviane Vergueiro Simakawa
Project Coordinator, Akahatá Equipo de Trabajo en Sexualidades y Géneros Akahata Equipo de Trabajo en Sexualidades y Generos
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Zhan Chiam
Senior Programme Officer, Gender Identityrefers to a person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. and Gender Expressionrefers to how a person presents their gender through physical appearance – including dress, hairstyles, accessories, cosmetics – and mannerisms, speech, behavioural patterns, names and personal references. International Lesbianadjective/noun to describe a woman whose enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attraction is to other women. Women and non-binary people may use this term to describe themselves., Gayadjective to describe people whose enduring physical, romantic, and/ or emotional
attractions are to people of the same gender. Men, women and non-binary people may use this
term to describe themselves., Bisexualadjective used to describe a person who has the capacity to form enduring physical, romantic, and/ or emotional attractions to those of the same gender or to those of other genders., Transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. and Intersexan umbrella term for the spectrum of variations of sex characteristics that naturally occur within the human species. Intersex people are born with variations of sex characteristics (such as genitals, reproductive organs, hormonal and chromosomal patterns) that are more diverse than stereotypical definitions of male or female bodies. Up to 1.7% of the global population are born with such traits; yet, because their bodies are seen as different, intersex children and adults are often stigmatised and subject to harmful practices – including in medical settings - and discriminated against. Association (ILGA)
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Joshua Sehoole
regional Manager Iranti-Org
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