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[nicesweater]

Trans lidé v ČR si zaslouží dostupnější změnu dokladů

V České republice je změna dokladů pro trans lidi podmíněna chirurgickou sterilizací. Podívejte se na sérií videí o tom, proč je načase zákon upravit.

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The Online Encyclopaedia of Migration is a new educational project created by the organization Online encyklopedie migrace, z. s. (NGO) in close cooperation with Charles University in Prague and gradually also with other European universities. It was born out of a need to help the general public understand modern news better and in context, especially migration which has been in focus lately. There’s a Czech and English version so far. 

[lgbt-cz]

Queer: Proti proudu času — Česká televize

Ohlédnutí za pražskou queer scénou období normalizace (2014). Režie N. Merklová

[lgbt-cz]

Pavel Berky is from a Romani family and spent his childhood in a village in southern Slovaka where non-Romani and Romani people were friends. His family then moved away from living with the rest of their relatives in order to work in the town of Rimavaská Sobota.

"One day when he was in sixth grade, Pavel brought an umbrella with him to school, and as he walked along his usual route, two adult men whom he did not know grabbed it from him, broke it to pieces, and used the pieces to hit him. "That time I went home crying," he recalls."

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[lgbt-cz]

veselé vánoce kapříci :)

[lgbt-cz]

17th of November isn’t just important because of the Velvet Revolution but also because of the events of 1939 when nazis stormed czech universities, killing and sending students to concentration camps. This event is now acknowledged worldwide with the International Students’ Day (from 1941), unfortunately many people don’t know about the origins of this important day. 

It all started when during a peaceful protest, which was violently suppressed by the nazis and their government here, a student of the faculty of medicine (Jan Opletal) was fatally injured and a young baker (Václav Sedláček) died. 

After this incident, nazi government decided to close all czech universities and kill prominent student figures and send around 1200 students to concentration camps. Out of these, 35 did not survive the concentraion camps, the rest were let out in 1942 or 1943. 

[mezimraky]

A brand new movie introduces us to Jan Palach, a student of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague who set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square on 16 January 1969. By this shocking act, he wanted to arouse the Czech public from lethargy following the August invasion of Czechoslovakia.Turn on the English subtitles if you need.

[urbsantiquafuit]

Monument to the Velvet Revolution

Prague, Czech Republic

[lgbt-cz]

Think US politics are bad? The Czech PM allegedly kidnapped his own son in a fraud scandal

A controversial rightwing billionaire leader is in political turmoil over an scandal involving his son, whom he named after himself. Sound familiar?

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[lgbt-cz]

Kauza tantrického guru Richarda Vojíka ilustruje, proč se oběti zdráhají promluvit o znásilnění. Bodejť, když si za ně podle nadpoloviční většiny veřejnosti můžou samy.

Deník Právo se už dva týdny věnuje kauze známého českého new age guru, tantrického lektora a duchovního učitele Richarda Vojíka, který měl systematicky zneužívat a dokonce znásilňovat své klientky ve svém salonu na pražských Vinohradech. Kauza se otevřela až nyní, přestože na Vojíka bylo podáno trestní oznámení již před čtyřmi lety. Pražská policie tehdy případ bez zájmu uzavřela s tvrzením, že ohlašovatelka měla s Vojíkem sex dobrovolně. Existovali přitom další svědkové ochotní vypovídat, vyšetřovatelé se o ně však nezajímali.

[lgbt-cz]

Rédl — Česká televize

Čtyřdílná minisérie scenáristy Mira Šifry a režiséra Jana Hřebejka odkrývá kriminální pozadí podivného příběhu organizovaného zločinu v porevolučním Československu na samém sklonku společného státu.

[lgbt-cz]

PROJEKT JEŽÍŠKOVA VNOUČATA dnes odhalil seznam přání od lidí v domovech pro seniory! ode dneška tedy můžete plnit vánoční přání lidem, kteří to potřebují. dárky jsou různých druhů a cenových kategorií, někdy jde o zážitek nebo zprostředkování nějakého setkání. 

[lgbt-cz]

Do you have any czech/translated to czech book recommendations that feature trans characters? The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are books 2 and 3 of the Magnus Chase trilogy.

když koukneš na queershop.cz, mají tam sekci trans knih

pak rozhodně je překlad dánské dívky (originál podle kterého byl film, ne naopak), 

na databázi knih je taky štítek transsexualita. budu hádat že většina těch anticky vypadajících knih bude nic moc, ale asi stojí za to si to tam prohlídnout. 

pár výsledků navíc je ještě ve výsledcích vyhledávání pražské knihovny “transsexualita”

[lgbt-cz]

achjo. pobožní češi slaví svátek...

[thetigerisariver]

If you don’t know, Czech Republic has a commission that meets with every trans person to assess whether they are trans enough to receive surgery and legal gender recognition.

This practice is, frankly, fucking disgusting and dehumanizing.

Oh, most people pass through it right away, but as usually the real question we should be asking who doesn’t?

Another shitty concept in our legal system are “gender neutral names”. If you are a trans person who did not yet change their legal gender, you can only change your name to a “neutral” one. Which means one of a very short list of officially, linguistically recognized “neutral” names. Most of these are either foreign or an infantalized version of Czech names. Your surname must also be changed to a neutral version - that is very unusual and uncommon and makes your name sound fake.

The answer to the million dollar question - who will not get past the commission is - whoever they damn well please

Yesterday, a publicly well known trans woman has been denied the access to surgery based on the fact that she had not changed her name to neutral. It doesn’t matter that she has been publicly known under a female name for literal years now, from personal to professional life to her media presence. Doesn’t matter that she has jumped through every crazy hoop they asked her to including starting a full on Real Life Test (an abhorrent practice, too, btw) without hormones. No, it matters fuck all because what they say is what will happen.

She wasn’t always a very good friend to other trans people, she is quite awful often. But what more proof is there needed that collaboration with the majority doesn’t make you safe…

I am full of rage and grief at the extent of careless violence these experts can inflict on our lives, whenever they please…