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MURDER OF TRANSEXUAL IN PORTUGAL AND THE ON-GOING ATTEMPT TO SILENCE IT:
URGENT APPEAL TO INTERNATIONAL ACTION !
Dear TransGenders, Communities, Friends !
We are deeply shocked and furious.
Gisberta, brasilian imigrant, transexual, HIV positive, having drug problems, sex-worker and homeless, was found dead on the 22th of February inside a pit 10 metres deep, in an unfinished building in Oporto, the second biggest portuguese city. The crime was confessed by a group of 14 boys, between 10 and 16 years old. They turtured and raped her for days. Most of the boys come from a child protection institution belonging to the Catholic Church although financed by the state.
At the TransGender Council in Vienna we voted on common demands:
The first supported demand (groups score) and the fourth supported demand (members score) was:
[52] Protection in hate crimes
Hate crime protection should recognise the need to protect transgender people.
Let our words become reality and follow the appeal of the Portuguise Community !
Love, strength and deepest sympathy for Gisberta's relatives and friends !
The European TransGender Network - Steering Committee * tgeurope@tgeu.net
THE APPEAL (at. and Panteras Rosa / Portugal)
Towards a terrible murder that more and more is becoming a hate crime, towards the biased omition of the sexual and transphobic component of the crime, towards the confused reaction of most LGBT portuguese associations that contributed to the huge amount of mediatic confusion and desinformation, because they weren´t able to inform correctly about the victim’s identity nor about the diference between homophobia and transphobia, towards the openly mediatic and political attempt of minimization of the crime, of the omition of the “hate” component in the death of a person, who acumulate so many social exclusions, towards the attempt to blame the victim, and the public “silencing” of this case, we appeal to the urgent support of all LGBT colectives and entities all over the world:
- to denounce as widely as you can the facts occured in Portugal, specially in the movements and national and international media;
- to protest – with knowledge to the portuguese LGBT associations– near the portuguese Government, official entities, political parties and media because the way they are dealing with this case (the contacts are in the end of this message). The model letter, also in the end of this message, can be used to do it;
- to manifest near this same entities and portuguese LGBT movement your solidarity with the efforts made to change this dramatic situation.
- WE FIND IT FUNDAMENTAL, AT THIS POINT, A STRONG INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE OVER PORTUGAL.
Jó Bernardo - at. - Association for the study and defense to the rigth to Gender Identity -
a.trans@clix.pt * jo_bernardo@clix.pt * http://a-trans.planetaclix.pt
Sérgio Vitorino - Pink Panthers –Combat Front Against Homophobia
Panteras.Rosas@sapo.pt * svitorino@gmail.com * www.panterasrosa.blogspot.com |
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