STOP TRANS PATHOLOGIZATION 2012
Stop Trans Pathologization – Goal 2012
This is an international campaign against Trans Pathologization. Website (in English, Castellano and Français): www.stp2012.wordpress.com
The Stop Trans Pathologization-2012 campaign is advocating for the despathologization of the trans identities (transexual and transgender) and their retirement from the manuals of disorders (the DSM from the American Psychiatric Association, the revised version of which will be due in 2012, and the CIE from the World Health Organization, due in 2014). Transgenderism and transsexualism are not mental disorders. Transgenders and transsexuals are human beings deserving equality in dignity, rights and freedoms.
This blog aims to visibilize the actions within this campaign and to center the people and organizations who support the manifesto. The main action of the stp2012 campaign is the simultaneous demonstration, in various cities around the world, every October since 2007.
Next demonstration will take place the 17th of October 2009, in more than 20 cities.
If you want to join the campaign and start mobilizing things in your city, or for any doubt, question, support, joining, encouraging… write to stp2012@gmail.com
The fight must go on!
Facebook Cause: Stop Trans Pathologization – Goal 2012
Positions:
1. The retirement of GID from the international diagnosis manuals (their next versions DSM-V
and ICD-11)
2. The withdrawal of sex mention from the official documents
3. The abolition of the binary normalization treatments to intersex people
4. Free access to hormonal treatments and surgery (without the psychiatric monitoring)
5. The fight against transphobia: working for education, social and labour insertion for trans people
Description:
The campaign Stop Trans Pathologization-2012 is an action coordinated by the International Net for Trans Desphatologization. This net is a coordination platform created by a group of advocates from different citites (mainly from the Spanish State) who work for the trans identities’ despathologization.
Though many of the activists from the net live in the Spanish State, our goals reach an international level because the desphatologization depends on international organizations (the American Psychiatric Association-APA- and the World Health Organization-WHO-).
Message from the International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA)
Dear friends,
The manifestation/campaign against Trans pathologization will culminate October 17th 2009 with a series of cities committed to the right of a trans identity organizing events.
Let us eradicate the discrimination and social exclusion of trans people fomented by the stigmatization of trans identity as an identity disorder through its registration in the DMS (Statistical and Diagnosis Manual of Mental Diseases).
Send your adhesion to this manifestation before September 1st to stp2012@gmail.com and belissa@ilga.org (subject: Adhesion SPT 2012) with the following information: name of your
organization, group or collective, city, country, logo.
We copy hereafter the Manifesto of the International Network for Trans De-pathologization.
Regards,
Belissa Andía Pérez, ILGA – Trans
Secretariat
Philippine Forum on Sports, Culture, Sexuality and Human Rights (TEAM PILIPINAS) supports the equality in dignity, rights and freedoms of all transgenders and transsexuals.
I LOVE P.R.I.D.E. / I LOVE Pinoys who Respect Rights, Identity, Diversity & Equality