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The Councillor for Foreign and Defense of the Rights of LGBT Collective raises a motion to the House (25/04/2016)

The Councillor for Foreign and Defense of the Rights of LGBT Collective has raised a motion to the plenary session in April to establish an agreement and commitment of the municipal institution on the occasion of the celebration of the International Day Against Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, which It takes place on 17 May.

The Plenary of Totana rejects and condemns any attitude, action, demonstration and legislation involving homophobic or transphobic nature;

and undertakes to promote the city, from different areas, favorable to equal treatment of homosexuals and transsexuals policies, in defense of their dignity, and encouraging consolidation and recognition of full equality of rights and opportunities.

For this reason, it is to be performed in commemoration of the World Day Against Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, reading a manifesto to combat such violence, in order to deepen their eradication.

Totana City Council is fully aware of all the steps that remain to take to resolve these situations described above discrimination, and decides to join, with this institutional statement, the commemoration of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, renewing its commitment to work for a more egalitarian society.

May 17 is celebrated worldwide on International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, recalling that on that date of 1990 the General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) finally removed homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses .

Since then, every May 17 becomes a good opportunity to take stock of progress on the road to full equality for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals;

but also for renewed efforts by the whole society, and as a democratic institution, commit ourselves to the goal of ending the scourge of homophobia and transphobia, and fight resolutely through public policies against all forms of discrimination that still persist on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Dignity, equal treatment and equality before the law above any condition is recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a fundamental and universal right.

However, we find that even today, 40 percent of UN member states still criminalized in one way or another sexual acts between persons of the same sex.

According to the report by the International Association of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transgender and Intersex Association (ILGA) in 2012 on State Homophobia, 78 countries have laws that criminalize sexual relations between adults of the same sex, with punishments ranging from lashes, prison sentences up to life imprisonment and even death

In Spain, the adoption of "equal marriage" has meant, in the end, the ultimate recognition for gays and lesbians in their civil rights, dignity, visibility and standardization for these couples and families, condemned until then to social and legal ostracism .

According to legal reforms of this kind is contained in the motion advance in a real way towards full equality for all citizens recognized in Article 14 of our Constitution, and a vital contribution to the fight against LGTBfobia in our society, which mostly and normally accepts diversity in affectivity and sexuality.

The recognition of equality, lest we forget, is essential to ensure the quality of our democracy, because citizens can be no first and second class.

But this should not make us lower our guard against many challenges remain.

Unfortunately, homophobic prejudices remain, especially in areas such as sport, as well as attitudes and public comments that attack the dignity of LGBT people.

Homophobic and transphobic bullying remains high (according to a recent study, 82% suffer this harassment without requiring any help or teacher or family, 43% reaches the ideation of suicide, 35% plan said suicide and 17% have tried to end his life), and it is necessary to provide for public policy tools to measure, analyze, prevent and combat, also giving teachers the training and information needed to confront these situations.

In this sense, education is undoubtedly the main tool for transmitting values ​​of equality, being necessary to ensure an inclusive education that protect and recognize the emotional and sexual diversity of people.

The situation of transgender people in our country must also continue among our priorities, despite the progress made with the approval of the Law on Gender Identity, and pending WHO definitively eliminate its definition associated with mental illness, and being aware that all this does not eliminate prejudice against a group particularly vulnerable to discrimination and suffering an increased risk of social exclusion are the difficulties these people to enter the labor market.

On the other hand it is essential to ensure equality in comprehensive care for transgender people for public health in Spain, as the fact that coverage for sex reassignment surgery is given in a CCAA, and sometimes not, It is a clear inequality.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana

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