Action transsexuality and human rights

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Action Transsexuality and Human Rights
(ATME)
purpose Human rights organization
Chair: Kim Schicklang
Christina Schieferdecker
Establishment date: April 1, 2008
Seat : Ludwigsburg
Website: www.atme-ev.de

The Verein Aktion Transsexualität und Menschenrecht eV ( ATME ) is a non-profit interest organization which, according to its own description, advocates the protection and human rights of transsexual people in Germany . ATME also fights for an end to discrimination based on gender identity and is financed from membership fees and donations.

History and description

In 2007 the Transsexuality and Human Rights initiative was founded by transsexual activists. On April 1st, 2008, the association Aktion Transsexualität und Menschenrecht eV emerged, founded by Christina "Tina" Schieferdecker and Kim Schicklang . The ATME was created after the German Institute for Human Rights called on the trans groups to “write a report on the situation of transsexual people in Germany” and was “the only organization” that participated in both 2007 and 2009 and “all of us well-known organizations several times ", whereby" nobody [...] was interested in expressing themselves openly about the situation of transsexual people in Germany. "

The guiding principle is that transsexuality is a physical-biological predisposition, independent of the gender identity disorder . As a result of this inverse approach, ATME is a prominent example of the transsexual movement.

In addition to political campaigns and initiatives, the association publishes the Alternative Human Rights Report on the situation of transsexual people in Germany.

According to a description by the Eberhard Schultz Foundation for Social Human Rights and Participation from 2015, ATME is an organization that “advocates the rights of transgender people and, among other things, the UN Sessions on Equality for Women (CEDAW), the UN social pact and accompanied UPR with human rights reports and oral statements. "

criticism

The association "is based on assumptions of the neurobiological gender discourse according to Horst-Jörg Haupt and differs fundamentally in terms of its terminology and concept from those of the (trans * - ie queer movement) but also from those of the sexology."

Campaigns and Initiatives

BREATH against "The Orsons"

In September 2012, ATME and the transsexual woman Monika Strub took legal action against the hip-hop band Die Orsons . According to ATME's opinion at the time, the song Horst and Monika, with which the Orsons and the rapper Cro entered the 2012 Bundesvision Song Contest as a contribution to the Saarland , would contain transphobic passages and would thus demean transsexuals. After a personal discussion between the participants, the group published an entry on their Facebook profile in which they "thank you for the great conversation [they] had" and in which they apologize and explain the background of their text:

“... With the song Horst & Monika we never intended to offend or even humiliate anyone. If this should have happened against our express intention, we ask for your forgiveness.

We deliberately chose the stylistic device of a partially simplistic, caricaturing representation of such complex and sensitive topics as transsexuality and sex operations in order to make this inspiring change, which we consider incredibly valuable, accessible to the largest possible audience. We welcome the discussion that can now take place with your support. "

- The Orsons

I'm not sick…

With the wake-up call: “Transsexuality is not a mental illness! I'm not sick, I'm great ”, ATME and the Spanish LGBT organization FELGTB initiated a campaign against discrimination against transgender people by the World Health Organization . The aim is to get transsexuality off the list of mental illnesses.

Stuttgart Declaration

The Stuttgart Declaration of 2015 is an ATME initiative, funded and supported by the Eberhard Schultz Foundation for Social Human Rights and Participation , among others, and provides alternative treatment recommendations for the health system's handling of transsexual and intersex people. Prominent supporters included Heiner Bielefeldt , Karl-Heinz Brunner , Andrej Hunko , Ulla Jelpke , Stefan Kaufmann , Renate Kirchhoff , Brigitte Lösch , Harald Petzold , Susann Rüthrich and Ute Vogt .

publication

event

  • Jens S. Achtert: become what you are or the long history of the “trans” - a cinematic attempt at documentation. Panel discussion in the Stuttgart Theaterhaus on July 30, 2010 next to the two ATME representatives Christina "Tina" Schieferdecker and Kim Schicklang with Balian Buschbaum , Ute Vogt (SPD), Stefan Kaufmann (CDU), Ingrid Hönlinger (Die Grünen) and Flu Bäuerle ( Amnesty International ).

literature

  • Germany before the UN Women's Rights Committee. A conversation by Michael Krennerich with women's rights activists Marion Böker, Katja Rodi, Kim Schicklang and Lucie Veith. In: Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte , Vol. 3/2009, No. 1, pp. 162–180.
  • Adrian de Silva: Basics of structural and conceptual developments in the trans * movement in the Federal Republic of Germany since the late 1990s. In: Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld (Hrsg.): Research in Queer Format. Current contributions from LGBTI *, queer and gender research. Bielefeld 2014, pp. 151–170.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Action Transsexuality and Human Rights ( Memento from June 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Entry in taz movement, without date, last accessed on June 19, 2015: “The Association Action Transsexuality and Human Rights eV (ATME) is an independent, non-profit organization that campaigns for the human rights of transsexual people. ATME fights for an end to discrimination based on gender identity. / The association Aktion Transsexualität und Menschenrecht eV was founded in April 2008 by a group of transsexual women who themselves have experienced human rights violations through their transsexuality and emerges from the initiative Human Rights and Transsexuality. ... "
  2. ↑ See also the imprint on the website of Aktion Transsexualität und Menschenrecht eV, c / o Christina Schieferdecker, undated, accessed on August 8, 2019.
  3. ↑ Blog page from Tinaland.de ( Memento from February 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), without date, originally accessed on June 19, 2015: “Current / Dear people, […] For everyone who wants to do something: please apply ATME eV: http://atme-ev.de/ / […] / Tina “.
  4. ↑ See Martin Dannecker : Gender identity and gender identity disorders. In: Journal for Sexual Research. 23 (1), 2010, pp. 53-62.
  5. ↑ See Adrian de Silva: Fundamentals of structural and conceptual developments in the trans * movement in the Federal Republic of Germany since the late 1990s. In: Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld (Hrsg.): Research in Queer Format. Current contributions from LGBTI *, queer and gender research. Bielefeld 2014, p. 160 ff.
  6. ↑ a b Promotion of the Transsexuality and Human Rights campaign. In: Sozialemenschenrechtsstiftung.org. Eberhard Schultz Foundation for Social Human Rights and Participation, January 2015, accessed on August 8, 2019 . ("... With our financial help of 2700 euros, a workshop will be held in January ...")
  7. ↑ Horst-Jörg Haupt: You are your brain. In: trans-evidence.com. Retrieved June 19, 2015 .
  8. ^ Adrian de Silva: Analysis of the sociology of movement in terms of the German trans * movement. (PDF) In: BMFSFJ (ed.), Arn Sauer (editor): Sexual diversity. Terms, definitions and disciplinary approaches to transgender and intersexualities. Accompanying research on the inter-ministerial working group on inter- and transsexuality (brochure of the BMFSFJ, PDF), Berlin 2015, p. 27, fn 8: “ATME eV rejects, for example, equating transsexuality with, or subsuming transsexuality under trans *, transgender or transgender from (cf. ATME eV 2014b) ".
  9. ^ Mathias Becker: Left candidate Monika Strub. Perfect turn. Now Monika Strub is a woman and very left-wing. In: Stern . September 26, 2012, accessed October 11, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Horst and Monika? Criminal charges against the Orsons. In: ATME-eV.de. September 23, 2012, accessed October 11, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Susanne Baller: "Bundesvision Song Contest": The song of the NPD man who became a left woman. In: Stern . September 27, 2012, accessed October 11, 2015 .
  12. ↑ a b Hello dear Action Transsexuality and Human Rights, The Orsons, Post on Facebook , September 27, 2012. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
  13. ↑ I am #notsick. Video on YouTube , accessed June 19, 2015.
  14. ↑ Petition against WHO: Transsexuals are not sick. In: RTL Television . Retrieved June 19, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Stuttgart Declaration. Site gender. Self. Certainly. Treatment of trans / intersexuality in accordance with human rights. Aktion Transsexualität und Menschenrecht eV (Ed.), Ludwigsburg, January 2015, accessed on August 8, 2019.
  16. ↑ Self-presentation (PDF) of Jens Achert's self-presentation (PDF) on the mut23.de website , accessed on August 8, 2019. From the presentation text : “Transphobia, transsexuality, transgender are three terms in a long history of“ trans ”full Incomprehension, exclusion and violence, which all too often lead to the death of innocent people. On July 30, 2010, however, a new, more hopeful chapter in this story was written in the Stuttgart Theaterhaus. Representatives of political parties and Amnesty International met for an open panel discussion with the transsexual women Tina and Kim, organizers of the event and the ATME eV association, from Stuttgart. "( Event video on YouTube , accessed on June 19, 2015.)