A-Infos (en) Brazil, OSL: January 29th: National Trans Day of Visibility (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

This January 29, 2024 - National Trans Visibility Day -, 20 years are 
celebrated since the date was chosen in 2004. 20 years that signal the 
organization of transvestite and trans movements for the right to exist 
and survive in a society marked by capitalist exploitation, social 
inequality and political projects that defend the annihilation of the 
lives of non-cisgender people. Although the struggle of transvestites 
and trans people is old, prior to the definition of the date and 
extending beyond it, designing a national day of visibility meant an 
important step in organizing resistance, boosting community 
articulations. This step was reinforced with the public event in 
Brasília ("1st Marsha trans Brasil"), held on January 28, 2024.

According to data from the "Dossier: Murders and violence against 
Brazilian transvestites and transsexuals - 2024", an annual survey 
produced by ANTRA, referring to 2023, Brazil continues to be the country 
that murdered the most trans people for the 15th consecutive year. In 
2023, there was a 10% increase in the number of murders compared to 
2022. Of the 155 trans people killed in 2023, 145 were murdered - many 
of these murders involved extreme violence, such as charring, beheadings 
and torture. The 10 other cases refer to suicides, pointing to the fact 
that living conditions tragically affect the mental health of the 
community. Underreporting of data still constitutes one of the problems 
faced in surveying this situation, it is clear that the numbers are much 
higher.

The moral patrol guided by the most regressive ideas of the extreme 
right, the denial of citizenship by the State, the difficulties imposed 
in obtaining and maintaining jobs and access to Education and Health, 
the precariousness of life, gender-based violence, hate speech , 
persecution, death threats and murders make life expectancy very low for 
the trans community. All this in the country that ranks first in the 
world in terms of consumption of trans pornography on digital adult 
content platforms - violence and objectification appear as two sides of 
the same coin.

The fight for social protection requires public policies in the areas of 
health, education, security, combating gender-based violence, etc. 
focused on the life needs of transvestites and trans people. However, 
even the claim that the social name be the main identification in the 
new ID was recently denied by the federal government, which opted to 
maintain the differentiation between "registration name" and "social 
name", in addition to the "sex" field. . Current governments continue to 
provide no answers for the preservation of human integrity and trans 
existences.

In this context, collective organization, with class independence and 
combativeness, through direct action, has demonstrated itself as the 
only concrete path to real social transformation, a transformation that 
enables dignified conditions for trans existence. The systems of 
domination structured by the State, the Patriarchy and Capitalism act 
directly in maintaining a predatory society. We long for a world in 
which lives and social rights are not violated and denied, in which 
sexualities flourish with the right to develop freely. Therefore, we 
defend the struggle of the trans and LGBT+ community and collectively 
build the tools to make this new world possible.

For struggle, resistance and trans lives!
For the Social Revolution and Libertarian Socialism!

Libertarian Socialist Organization

https://socialismolibertario.net/2024/01/29/29-de-janeiro-dia-nacional-da-visibilidade-trans/
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