I am a transvestite and dangerous
I do not want to be practical
I got tired of it seems very
complicated my existence
it bothers them to use pronouns
with whom I identify
get used to it and they already feel very
attacked milestones when he did not let his
transphobic jokes as they stop
make’m a transvestite because I am
a woman with a penis and not a man with
wig and hate when they talk to us with that
condescending tonito as if we were
gross as if we were buffoons or as
if we were poor victims we are
powerful and we do not leave anyone
I do not have to be patient
I do not have to recognize their good
intentions
I do not have to understand that either
have heard interacted with a
trans person is that we will not continue
letting them condition our respect
to his ignorance or more was missing it sounds
very violent and dangerous if we are
dangerous are dangerous for the status
quo
we are dangerous for all systems
that seem unfair to us because we are going to
change we are the daughters of the
transvestites who could not sterilize
I am the dangerous transvestite of which
they were both warned
but this time they will not be able to kill us
all
they also say that I am dangerous because
I’m a lawyer but that’s like another
different story
I want to remember one of the first
times that I put on feminine clothes and
was when I was in Bogota I was going to leave
of partying with my friends and I went out to
buy me the pint of that day was
premiering from head to toe he had
extensions had some measures
similar to those that now have to
knees but when we try
enter seven bars and discos of
Chapinero in Bogota denied us the
entrance to all and all told us
that transvestites do not let them enter
those places because transvestites
we were dangerous, aggressive and aggressive
anger is defined as a
feeling of indignation that causes
anger
I remember that when I was
they said they could not give their places
first I felt pain after I felt a
deep shame for being what I
I was disgusted to be a person
trans and that’s why I was denying the
entrance to those places
when they deny me the entrance was like
if they made me think that it was less than
them that I had fewer rights than
them but as I am such a person
stubborn I started thinking about those
arguments again and again and I realized
that they were not right that I
yes he was right that I was not that
generous person that they were doing to me
to think that I was wanting to be regal
I still regia and that’s when I gave myself
account that the pain that produced the
exclusion could become anger and
I repeat in that feeling of
indignation that causes anger
I do not know how you feel when
have they go but I for example when
I have anger
I feel that my hands are sweating
makes a lump in my throat that I
my legs are shaking that I am not capable of
talk makes me want to cry I do not cry and
I feel as if all the air out
because I have a heart attack
I feel like they give me a fist and I
will deflate completely and I want
channel that emotion to put together a
part
the history of the lesbian movement
bisexual gays and trans people in 1969
on June 27 in new york
the police try to seal a bar with the
excuse that they did not have a license
to sell alcohol
this bar was called stonewall and still
exists in this bar will meet the
people most excluded from the community
the ft workers and workers
sexual queens trans people
homeless men effeminate and
male women and one of the
images that I like most about this
history is an image repeated by the
historians and that is the drag queens
already the women will be the
going up a car and saw how it came
a leg with some veiled socks and
some heels and they kicked
a policeman and this policeman fell at the
floor and I like that image because I
remember that the transvestite fury was
present in the movement you gmt from
its beginnings and I like that story
because in addition this they have not wanted it
sell like a story about gay men
whites who just want to get married
and forgot to tell the transvestite fury
in the history of the movement lg ve
that night in that bar there were two
trans women who were part of the
revolution the bt axis in united states
one was silvia rivera that was a woman
trans of Puerto Rican descent and
Venezuelan and who was a consumer of
drugs and street dweller when
happened this she said is the
revolution I do not want to miss a single
instant
Silvia was trying to put the issues of use
of drugs and people who do not
they had a home on the agenda of
move lg go and that’s why the
they wanted within the movement many
when I tried to get on the stage to
give their speeches the descent did not fight
and I told him it was very scandalous and
very mouthy to
mar pitt johnson was a trans woman
afrodescendant that later during
during the HIV / AIDS epidemic
became a very activist
important and both silvia and march
They decided to unite their anger and their anger and their
transvestite rage and they founded a
organization that helped people
trans homeless
now we go to Latin America in
Latin America
the life expectancy of the people
trans is 35 years the expectation of
life of the rest of the population is 76
years in Latin America
I am 27 years old that in years francisco
moya blair has died a little bit I’m already
there
on the other side in argentina
lohana berkins who was an activist
trans managed to channel the wrath of
trans people in political actions
that transformed the reality of
Argentina did a study with
three hundred trans people founded a
cooperative work to give you more
opportunities for trans people who
they exercised sex work and together with
two other activists among them marcela
Romero who is now director of the
Latin American and Caribbean network of
trans people and diana sacayán
they decided that the anger that made them
feel the exclusion they were not going to
use against them they did
political pacts to process their
differences and they were organized to do
a political action
that political action was concretized in
a law of gender identity in
Argentina the gender identity law
in Argentina has been a pioneer at the
world
for several reasons because he recognized the
trans identities from the state because
allowed trans people
they will change their sex and their name in
identity documents and no longer
they demanded no medical paperwork
psychiatric opinions neither he nor
no type in argentina now the
only way that is taken into account for
having
sex is how the person defines himself
but also the law included access to
body transformations that
trans people we need for the
building our identity in the
gender identity law and
difference from what happens today in
Colombia is not required of people
trans go to a psychiatrist to say that
it involves having a disease
mental in the city of Buenos Aires at
less 1% of public entities
they must have contracted trans people
that is, at least 1% of the
public entities must be people
trans and it seems that the fury crossing has
been an effective political tool
france movements because
life expectancy in Argentina that
before it was equal to that of Latin America
35 years old rose to 40 years in
Colombia there is an organization there is a
coalition of organizations and
trans activists and of which I am a part
it is called the one that portrays it and the year
past we got the government
issue a decree that will allow
trans people change sex in the
civil registry without any kind of
psychiatric medical opinion from the
that the network also intervenes in the
constitutional court in a case where
a trans woman had sued the
district of bogotá because the
they wanted to hire because they demanded
a military notebook in the words of the
cut
the court said trans women do not
they need a military notebook because
trans women are women and we are going
plus
we are also changing the
discussions that exist within the
move him gmt and we said no
do and say nothing of us without
we
this shows us that anger is
making a useful tool and
It also shows us that feminism
we have learned that the personal is
political and so called an article
that he wrote in 1970 was an article
feminist that among many other things
I wanted to reaffirm two things the first
was that the individual struggles of
women were political struggles and the
second was that those discussions that
we considered the private sphere as
intrafamily violence or abortion
they had to know public discussions
and policies
the article is also very interesting
that he says what to
take it personally to the political of
effective way some type is necessary
of theory or analytical framework that we
allow to analyze between the different
political factions which is more
effective than another and be more effective
channeling the personal and politically
but we have also realized that
we fear the personal thing is to say
we are afraid to be angry do not you
we are afraid to feel anger we have
afraid to look angry and that looks like
several very particular stereotypes
the first is the stereotype of women
angry the angry woman is presented
as a woman who is completely
irrational because when feeling anger you can not
think and the dangerous transvestite is
similar because they present people
trans as extremely aggressive people
that they can not think and that by the fact
of being trans are violent and that
caricature of women or trans women
Anger has made us afraid to be that
person
you do not want to be like that caricature
but in my case I feel that to me the
anger has not nullified my reason
I think the opposite has happened to me
anger has helped me to see with
much more clarity those relationships
of power where I am the oppressed and that
clarity
can only be seen if we believe that
other realities are possible if we believe
what we are
it’s fine if we convince ourselves that
it’s normal that never ever will anyone
hurt
but besides that when we respond to
a violent action
it’s fine and the definitive feeling
bravas or how we are expected to respond
to a moment of violence or when we
they hurt
I believe that it is legitimate to feel
when one is hurt but also
It is very important to believe that we are
able to change our realities and
that our destiny is not should not be and
it can not be that they hurt us
that is, we have to always get upset
that hurt us and to be able to
indignant whenever they hurt us
we need that other reality that we
let’s compare what allows us to think
that another world is possible where it does not
it hurts us and I think that there is
where a critical and urgent
trans utopia think about that better world
possible
the best of the possible worlds for
trans people that trans people
we feel the right to
and that society ask us
ask if this reality did not exist
what would your fantasy be and that implies
think that the conditions in which
we live trans people currently
they are absolutely unacceptable implies
also feel the right to
ask if there were no limitations
what would that ideal world be and I believe
which is the best of the possible worlds
I would have more people in the area
needs that prisons or would have
a world without prisons and with many
job opportunities
a world where the economy is fair
redistributive and participatory a world
with critical public universities and
accessible to everyone trans one
world without hierarchies a world where no
absolutely nothing is invested in war
a world where my partner does not give
shame to say that he loves me and that I
you want a world where we do not have to
be remembering that trans women
we are women a world where having breasts
with a penis can also be beautiful and
where to have a beard with a vagina
it can also be synonymous with sexy a
world with a lot of sex with many orgasms
with much pleasure and with an icon hands
taboo free time a world where everyone
and we are all free and happy and not
let’s rest until all the
trans people absolutely all
trans people we are free and happy and
although there are many butterflies that have
afraid of getting out of their cocoon they have to
know that they are not alone because here
out the butterflies we fly in herd and
we beat our rooms with a lot but
a lot of transvestite fury
[Applause]
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