Sex and gender domino

April 2015 is for trans* and intersex human rights in Europe a rather fortunate month. On the legal level that is. It still rains trans murders and suicides, not to speak of other atrocities. Which – cynically maybe – show precisely what we need that legislation for. I want  your attention for two cities in …

Trans*, health and human rights

Trans people are seriously disadvantaged by not having accessible trans specific health care. As by not being able to access regular health care because of transphobia and discrimination. Vreerwerk keeps writing and talking about trans health and trans* people’s access to health care. Be it general health care or trans specific. With much discrimination – whether …

June 10 start of online training

On June 10 we will start the next online training “Fighting for trans* and intersex equality through human rights”. In five bi-weekly two hour webinars you will get information on the following themes: Human rights systems, global and regional Conventions, charters, courts. Selected cases, important wins Trans & Intersex rights & issues, Yogyakarta Principles Threats …

Trans kids need support not diagnosis

October 19, 2013 is the international day on the depathologisation, declaring not a disorder but a positive diversity, of trans people. And because of high level developments in the World Health Organisation, that is responsible for revising the International Classification of Diseases, that is used for understanding what is a sickness, a disease, a disorder – be …

Brief genderkenning aan Kamercommissie

Onderstaande brief is vandaag namens Transman.nl en Vreerwerk de deur uitgegaan naar de vaste Kamercommissie Veiligheid en Justitie die totenmet volgende week donderdag 13 december vragen aan het departement mag sturen  voor verbetering van het wetsontwerp voor de Nederlandse wet op de gendererkenning (geslachtswijziging) Aan: Leden van de Vaste Kamercommissie voor Justitie   Kopie aan: …

Speech at Remembrance Day 2012 in Amsterdam

Good evening everyone For who does not know me, I am Vreer. I am a long time trans genderqueer community organizer here in Amsterdam and I am also speaking as a Steering Committee member for Transgender Europe. Today is November 20, 2012. The fourteenth time that Transgender Remembrance Day is held. The seventh time in …

“Wat diagnostiseren, waarvoor zorg verlenen”: basisproblemen in de diagnostische fase

“Op geestelijk terrein is degene die vraagt, zich beroept, smeekt, abnormaal” Franz Fanon, Piel negra, mascaras blancas 2008:134) De diagnostische fase vormt een punt van controverse in de medische praktijk rond transseksuelen. De functie van de diagnostiek zelf staat ter discussie, als we accepteren dat er geen enkele reden is om vol te houden dat …

Geen transformatie van het zorgmodel zonder ander paradigma: van transseksualiteit naar transfobie

Het is 2008. Onder de titel Answers to your Questions about Transgender Indivduals and Gender Identitiy toont de werkgroep over genderidentiteit van de American Psychological Association (APA) een stap voorwaarts in het debat over geestesziekte: ze verklaart zonder voorbehoud dat de transgender conditie geen geestesziekte per se is.