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(en) wsm.ie: Trans Pride 2019 in Dublin
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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 07:52:02 +0300
Around a thousand people took part in the second Dublin Transgender Pride Parade last
Saturday, July 6. This is almost double the number that marched last year. Upon assembling
at Parnell Square the colourful procession made it's way down O' Connell Street, through
Eden Quay, Customs House Quay and Lombard Street, before arriving at it's destination of
Merrion Square. It was watched by crowds of onlookers who offered encouragement and
support in the form of cheering and applause.[video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqeG3Agyevg ---- The parade participants bore flags and
banners displaying slogans such as 'Trans rights are human rights', 'I'm marching for my
trans friends who aren't out', and 'T.E.R.F.-free zone'. The acronym 'T.E.R.F.' refers to
Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists, a group who claim transgender women aren't actually
women.
According to some of the parade's organizers Saturday's event was intended to bring
attention to some of the forms of discrimination that transgender individuals in Ireland
are forced to endure. These include having to wait for three years or longer to access
hormone treatment, the absence of any surgical treatment in Ireland, and an increasing
number of attacks on transgender individuals.
Thomas White, one of the organizers, said in an interview with the Irish Times that
'trangender people face challenges that gay, lesbian, and bi people don't. Being
transgender goes much further against what society determines to be acceptable'.
The Dublin LGBTQ Pride website, which advertised the parade, states that 'neither sex or
gender is binary. They both exist on a spectrum and we want to make that known. The
societal expectations that the gender binary enforces act like a prison for all of us, not
just gender non-conforming poeple, trapping us in outdated and often sexist gender roles
which we are punished for breaking away from. Rigid gender roles have no place in the
progressive society that we need to create if we want trans liberation'.
Judging from the number of participants as compared to last years' parade, and from the
enthusiastic support of onlookers, this years' parade was a great success.
https://wsm.ie/c/trans-pride-2019-dublin-july
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