25 years of the murder of the transsexual Sonia

The transsexual collective demands that transsexuality is not treated as a pathology

GAYLES.TV.- On October 6 met in the Park of the Citadel de Barcelona institutions, institutions and friends to remember Sonia Rescalvo Zafra, murdered 25 years ago of a beating by a group of neo-Nazis. In Barcelona pre-Olympic night of the 6th October 1991 six skinheads they went to the Glorieta de los Músicos (from 2013 Glorieta de la Transexual Sonia), a common meeting place for homosexual y transsexuals. Sonia and her friend were sleeping there Dori, who received a brutal beating that caused the death of Sonia being that "the first crime of a transsexual by the mere fact of being one of which there is evidence in Spain ". The murderers were sentenced to 310 years in jail, subsequently the Supreme Court he reduced the penalties by half. In 2011, with the exception of two of them, the rest was free.

In the tribute held yesterday in memory of Sonia, representatives of the Barcelona City Council and the Generalitat de Catalunya. Between entities LGTB + who were present and participated in the floral offering were the Couple Lambda, GAG, Gais Positius, FLG Famílies LGTBI, ACEGAL, ACATHI that with his living library he opened the afternoon informing onlookers that they were approaching the roundabout and explaining their personal stories to bring the fact closer trans* to the citizens. As he was in charge of remembering the manifesto read by Trans * form La Salut: "There is no trans identity, but many trans-«.

Under this platform have been joined the majority of trans * associations that make activism in Catalonia: Generem, ATC, ACATHI, In Femme, Chrysallis Catalunya y Young trans in addition to people in a personal capacity. Among its demands «We do not want a psychiatric diagnosis, we know who we are and we have rights such as cis people already have. We demand to include the right of gender identity in the civil rights of our society and for this reason we demand the elimination of the current health system, which does not respect our identity«. One of the moments of the reading of the manifesto that drew the most applause were the following words: «We have political action, and we will not stop. We say it now and whenever we need it: the Gender Identity Unit of Hospital Clínic, the engine of our pathologization, has to disappear. Final point«. The act ended with the performance of the transsexual artist Frau Diamanda and the traditional floral offering.