Protections

Protections for trans people and lesbians and gays are hard to define, laws are one thing but the other is enforcing those laws. Here in Connecticut we have excellent protections and the state does try to enforce the laws but there are road blocks… it is not perfect. While in other states they are doing everything that they can think of to thwarted us.

Internationally it is pretty much the same, some countries want to behead us while other countries have strong protections for us.

Trans Rights In Global Recession–One Year After Transgender Removed From WHO List Of Diseases
Forbes
By Jamie Wareham
May 25, 2020

One year since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declassified transgender people's gender dysphoria as a disease, trans rights are in a global recession, say LGBT+ activists.

Transgender Europe (TGEU) monitor trans rights around the world, with a specific focus on Europe and Asia. They tell me that despite numerous improvements in some countries over recent years, trans rights are in recession:

"The picture is diverse, and some countries are moving forward. But we also see a lot of stagnation and recession." Health Officer Leo Mulió Alvarez tells me.

They've also become the latest in a line of European and Global LGBT+ organisations to point out that COVID-19 crisis is providing a pretence for governments to roll back trans rights.

"The rollback in rights we are seeing is getting even more with the coronavirus situation. Countries are taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to reduce transgender rights," Alvarez says.

"But it's a complicated picture as we are also seeing attacks from religious, anti-gender and even feminist groups."

Gender Dysphoria has been changed in the ICD from "gender identity disorder" to “gender incongruence” which means “marked and persistent incongruence between a person's experienced gender and assigned sex."

Lale Say, the Coordinator of WHO's Department of Reproductive Health and Research, said the change happened because they now have a "better understanding that it was not actually a mental health condition."

Adding, in a UN release last year, that the reclassification will "reduce the stigma" while ensuring "access to necessary health interventions."

And the announcement was received with a mixed response last year. Transgender Europe would still like to see the WHO go even further and remove any reference to gender incongruence.

There are some trans people who say that to remove it completely from the ICD would cause us to lose our health insurance coverage for our hormones, and Gender Confirming Surgeries.

In countries around the world there is still a lot of hate for LGBTQ+ peoples.

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In another Forbes article they write about the laws on LGB people around the world.

Map Shows Where It’s Illegal To Be Gay – 30 Years Since WHO Declassified Homosexuality As Disease
By Jamie Wareham
May 17, 2020

It's still illegal to be LGBT+ in 70 countries, and you could be given the death penalty in 12, as the world marks 30 years since “homosexuality” was declassified as a disease.

International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT), May 17 marks the day the World Health Organisation (WHO) declassified “homosexuality” as a mental disorder.

As the world reaches 30 years since being gay was no longer an internationally designated disease, a map by an international LGBT organization shows it remains illegal to be gay in 70 countries.

The map by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association shows that only 65% of those living in UN countries around the world can now be, legally, in consensual same-sex relationships.
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LGBT+ people are being killed in 12 countries who have the death penalty for consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults.

In Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan this death penalty is regularly imposed across the county. You can also be punished by death in some provinces of Somalia and Nigeria.
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A further six, have legal or religious provisions that also allow for the death penalty for consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults. In Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, the law exists, but there is little evidence LGBT+ are facing the death penalty.

The data presented in this map is based on State-Sponsored Homophobia, an ILGA World report by Lucas Ramón Mendos. 

 ILGA WORLD

The Trump administration I think is just a symptom of a global conservative/oligarchical movement. As the economies collapse around the world because the wealth/social inequalities we become the scapegoats. Around the world I see further eroding of our rights, the protections that we fought for and won in the previous decades.