The Oaxacan Network for HIV announced that they will hold the second Afro-Indigenous and Non-Binary Trans Meeting from September 26 to 28, for which they are collecting funds for the transportation, lodging and food of the participants from the different regions of the state and other states of the country, informed the coordinator of the event, Koko Lozada.
She said that in this second meeting they plan the participation of three people from each region of Oaxaca, who identify themselves as trans or who identify as a trans person who is also affected by being indigenous, whether or not they speak a mother tongue, but who have roots in some indigenous or Afro people.
“We always had the idea that these events would be decentralized, first and then that they would be distributed in the different regions of Oaxaca, that is, that it would not only be in one region, that is why now it will be in the region of the Coast, in the city of Puerto Escondido,” she added.
She indicated that in this second edition they are supported by international organizations such as the Simone de Beauvoir Leadership Institute (ILSB), which will provide feminist training workshops and innovative programs for advanced training in gender, human rights in vulnerable groups.
Catholics for the Right to Decide and Seed Funds will also participate, an organization that has supported projects in the trans community, in addition to others that will join with scholarships for travel expenses such as Mexfam and Consortium for Parliamentary Dialogue and Equity of Oaxaca.
“This meeting, unlike the previous one, will be more focused on health issues, sexual health, erotic health, mental health, it will focus on comprehensive health, because many times when we talk about the trans community or talk about sexual diversity, many times they relate it to sexual health only, as directed at sexually transmitted infections, we want people who participate to be able to access these issues in a comprehensive way, such as spiritual health, as well,” she said.
She said that they have made calls to the Ombudsman for Human Rights of the People of Oaxaca (DDHPO) and the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Oaxaca (FGEO) so that they can participate and are awaiting an institutional response; they are also including non-binary people in the call, being the only meeting with these characteristics at the national level.
Source: oaxaca.eluniversal
