The response to our open letter regarding the March 29th assembly at the Mario Mieli Hospital in Rome.
We support your open letter accepting the proposal to speak.
As Rete Liberazione per tutti and Rete Trans Roma, we sent an email to all the associations on the list asking that the March 29th assembly be postponed until after March 31st, to at least allow us to express our concerns, given that several transfeminist initiatives related to TDOV were planned throughout the weekend in the area.
We have always emphasized that our call for the TDOV events predated the decision by "La strada dei diritti" to set the date of the 29th. The event we organized for the TDOV had been announced long ago and was the continuation of a process spanning more than a year that saw a march of thousands of people take to the streets on May 18th. That same weekend, Rome hosted the demonstration for Palestine, the three-day transfeminist eco-event by the Reset Network, and other initiatives related to the Day of Trans* Visibility organized by various groups until Monday the 31st.
Anche già solo per questo ricco calendario ci era suonata stonata una chiamata a un’assemblea transfemminista nei giorni in cui avrebbe avuto senso attraversare le diverse opportunità di fare rete. Da più di un anno stiamo costruendo dal basso una rete locale e nazionale di lotta trans, intersex, non binaria
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a path that was not and is not unknown (if anything, disavowed) by many of the associations that called that assembly, who were also informed of the desire, the necessity and the organization already in progress both of the citizens' initiative for the TDOV (which was very well attended, for those who love numbers and budgets) and of a trans, non-binary, intersex demonstration in which our needs, our desires, what we want, what we think are at the center and in which the rest of the network of alliances has its say on how it makes itself available to realize this plan.
There's a lot of talk about Putin, Trump, Orban, Meloni, Milei, Roccella, Valditara, Piantedosi, and now the UK Supreme Court's decision, which effectively returns to a biological categorization of bodies, as a retreat from "our" so-called "rights," as something unexpected. We also disagree with this historical-political interpretation, with this astonishment at the resurgent winds of fascism, at the return of dark times. We have foretold what is happening, including the latest UK Supreme Court decision, not only in our assemblies but also on every occasion we have been able to represent it. We have therefore experienced and seen in advance what is now inexorably unfolding, taking the path we predicted, unheard.
Our trans, intersex, and non-binary community, in this country and the world at large, has never seen better times! It has always been pathologized, psychiatrized, marginalized, branded as monstrous and dangerous, forced into hospitals and courts simply for being who we are! For us, there have never been better times, nor better governments, nor homelands, nor Europe, nor wars, nor genocides, nor racism that have spared us!
For this reason, we do not want celebrations devoid of political positioning, as the pride parades sponsored by the multinationals responsible for the disasters we are experiencing have been reduced to, nor political parties and flags that have been responsible for completely failing to listen to our community and are now waking up to support their battle against the governments of the day, nor uniformed representatives of the police force to wash their consciences of the scars left on the bodies of so many people in our community.
It is from us, from our bodies, from our euphoria, from our colors that we want to start building the May 18th procession in Rome and not from the chains of acronyms and bureaucratic practices corrupted by the stammering of institutional relations with those who want to erase us, begging for crumbs of "rights" while denying, erasing, mocking, abusing, violating, and killing our daily existence.
Some people who now pass through our network participated in the Stati Genderali experience, led discussions, drafted a law that can no longer be postponed based on self-determination and informed consent for trans people, developed a plan for employment, training, the right to healthcare, the recognition of our relationships, and the importance of making decisions about our lives, of growing in the freedom to be who we are. This experience called for a dialogue between associations and radical grassroots movements, but it was deliberately and strategically boycotted.
In a national and international context that has given us executive orders to disappear from circulation, we brought our gender euphoria to the cities for the TDOV, shamelessly and proudly against all fascism and pietism, to reaffirm our genders and our lives. As mentioned at the beginning of this long but necessary letter, there were three of them in Rome, resulting in a rich, varied, and well-attended weekend.
We are convinced that the patriarchal and violent "fear" toward trans, intersex, and non-binary people stems from the fact that our multifaceted expressions challenge the system on which our society is founded, imposing the control/pathologization/psychiatrization of the "different," binarism, the gender assigned from birth to each person, the roles that arise from this, the hierarchical power over all bodies that is the foundation of a capitalist system. A system founded on exploitation, enslavement, media manipulation, competition, violence, and war.
The alliance between governments and fascist movements defines free will as dangerous, empathy as dangerous, a ladder as dangerous, a trans* person speaking to schoolchildren as dangerous… but for whom? Our self-determination is a danger to the system of control over bodies and social hierarchies that would crumble, and is already crumbling, and for this reason, wounded, the patriarchy strikes even harder.
We are a danger to a system that considers us collateral even in our right to demonstrate and which therefore again tries to brand even the antagonism by taking disused symbols such as lightning and smoke bombs that are increasingly less visible in the communications and practices of a world that as long as it is considered collateral can be poorly imitated and only commercially in a period in which sponsors are scarce, or should be scarce and they always try to call to the streets with rainbows and unicorns, but with a restyling that appears to be a mere exercise in style, precisely, on the part of those who even in the last few weeks have demonstrated an attitude of superiority and arrogance towards the subjectivities that escape the control of cis sexist hetero-normative, who instead dialogue with Roccella and psychiatrists, whom we reject entirely in the process of gender affirmation, but above all we refuse to give voice to those whom our community has denounced and removed from the assembly of Gender States such as Manlio Converti who, without shaking any of the organizing consciences, he was able to reiterate that trans people need psychiatry.
Thus, as trans, intersex, and non-binary people, we want to blow away these societal constructs that are nothing more than sandcastles. As such, we want them to be swept away, thus building a new society finally free from the physical and mental oppressions that still exist. We want to reaffirm our existence by demanding total liberation for our bodies and minds, free to choose who we are from our earliest childhood.
for this, for everything else, we will be marching in Rome on May 18th
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The article The voice of: Liberation Network for all and Trans Network Rome comes from Keep.
