Since 2023, Portugal represents March 31 as a national day of transit vision. It accompanies the country, which has been on the International Day since 2008, and takes an important step in what is a recognition of the conflict of converts and all identities that do not correspond to sex/bilateral, female/male/female.
In fact, in recent years, we have been seen with great progress in the rights of transgender people. Since 2011, converting people can change their name and sex in official documents without the need for sexual resine surgery. With Law No. 38/2018, we have witnessed important improvements and a medical report that attests to “gender speech defect.” Later, in 2024, they are Boiled practices for “sexual conversion” Against homosexuals+people, criminalizing actions directed at change, limiting, suppressing sexual inclination, identity, or sexual expression in the country.
However, when we talk to people converted about the progress of these laws and their practical effects in daily life, reality is still different. access It deserves health care It shows survival, but it is a reality for most of these people. Access to education, justice, work, decent and safe housing shows that it still guarantees this. Ignorance, wrong information, social stigmatization about biological sex, sex and experience with experience in preventing the slow recognition that converted people in societies of two sexes have been significantly different. An example of this is the terrible political attacks on transgender people Part of the Trump administration.
Accepting the existence of only two types attributed to birth; Removing terms such as “gay”, “lesbian”, “dual sex”, “transgender” and “LGBTQ+” from the White House sites and federal agencies; Prohibition of using federal funds, public financing and government programs to enhance “gender ideology”; We saw censorship, exclusion and persecution of persons in the United States on the basis of an ideology similar to the person who followed and killed thousands of people LGBTQ+ during the Hitler system in Nazi Germany.
Also large American companies, As a goal Google now shows an attempt to erase political rights and contributions to the LGBTQ community in favor of discriminatory practices and hate speech in the Internet.
We live in a time of tyranny that intends to erase history, control and suppress some identities. We start with Trans and Q for Queer, but later or later other messages from the alphabet such as L, G, B. We have recently seen in Portugal that the right government excludes from the educational context a guide that encourages the inclusion of transit and non -bilateral and young children in the context of the school. Here are the repercussions of the terrible political attacks of a very conservative popular right that acquires global expression. Also here, in this small and calm country, the rights of people LGBTQ+ are far from making sure.
It is important to unite power and not to leave anyone behind. Remember and learn from history. Remember who are the people who built the LGBTQ Rights Movement+: The transgender people are racists. Celebrate characters like Marsha B. Johnson and Silvia Rivera, as well as Jesparta Salis, Lara Crespo, or Edwarda Alice Santos, are unavoidable figures for the international and national movement.
Today, more than ever, it is more important to defend democracy, freedom of expression and protection against hate speeches and discrimination. It is important to understand that the struggle of LGBTQ+, a redemption ram from the radical right, is a conflict linked to all people. You are truly love without exception. It is essentially important to remember, on this day, that without T is not LGB.
