Vi er trans nok!
So in the capital and some other places too in Norway, there was protests for trans rights yesterday. There was a huge one outside the parliament, of maybe one hundred people, with dozens of pride flags and banners. In Norway, there is a very poor system for medical transitioning. There are huge waiting lists, and often you will be denied diagnosis for the smallest reasons. They discriminate particularly on gender identity, which is illegal... But also discriminate against non-straight people and autistic people. The protest was titled “trans enough”. Because many of us are denied treatment or diagnoses. A lot of us feel we need to fight the medical system to simply be recognised. It’s not a system that seeks to help and treat us, but rather mock us, control us, and have us fight them. This is not how any aspect of the medical system should be. On top of this, there’s only one clinic that provides “blue receipts” for hrt. Blue receipts can only be prescribed if you have the “transsexualism” diagnosis too, which only this clinic can give. A blue receipt is when the state covers the cost. Without it you will literally need to pay thousands... That doesn’t really work with a group plagued with unemployment, on top of being statistically worse off. Another point... There’s no hate crime law covering gender identity on a national level. Only in one police district can you report violence with the motive of transphobia. That aside... The gender clinic acts very unprofessional in media... Literally has attacked both experts and sexology as a field. As A Field!!!!!!! They also, as a direct attack, called trans men for women. More specifically they came with hateful expressions... In a news article referring to trans men as “our nation’s daughters”, and claiming that sexologists are stealing Norwegian women’s capability to have children. This is literally borrowing rhetorics from conservatives. This is the people responsible for treating trans people in Norway. Our health minister has expressed desire for change, but has not done much in practice yet. Which seems to be a common theme with politicians and LGBTQ+ rights. We have for years now fought. We got our marriages, our adoptions, our hate crime laws, and the anti-discrimination laws... It is time to give trans people bodily autonomy. It’s not enough anymore to “tolerate” us. We need change. We need autonomy. We are trans enough.