Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin 2023

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Trans & Intersex Pride Dublin takes place on Saturday the 8th July.

⚧️️‍⚧️️‍⚧️ TRANS AND INTERSEX PRIDE IS BACK!!!! ️‍⚧️️‍⚧️️‍⚧️

Join us on July 8th to march from the Garden of Remembrance to the Dáil and bring Pride back to the radical roots of protest. No corporations, no pinkwashing and no government parties!

The last few years have been some of the deadliest on record for queer people. From hundreds of anti-trans, anti-drag and anti-LGBTQIA+ bills being proposed in the US, to the Ugandan government passing a bill which includes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts, to the Tory party of Britain’s relentless war on trans people in the middle of a strike wave and cost of living crisis. This may be viewed by some as a “culture war”, but it’s a culture war with devastating effects on the lives of trans people and queer people as a whole, such as the horrific deaths of Brianna Ghey and Eden Knight.

Back home in Ireland, the government’s failed neoliberal policies have allowed the far-right to flourish and, similar to the Tories, their main targets are queer people and immigrants. What has the State’s response to this been? To either pander to them with anti-immigrant and transphobic language (such as Fine Gael wanting to have a “debate” on trans issues-human rights aren’t up for debate!) or, in the case of the Gardaí, gleefully escorting them inside a library, so they can destroy queer literature. We’ve also seen the horrific murder of Geila Ibram, a sex worker who came to Ireland to provide a better life for her children.

All of this is to say we cannot rely on a neoliberal state or its institutions to protect us. We protect us, and the way we fight back against the far-right and those who want to “debate” our rights is by coming together in solidarity and building at grassroots, mass movement which challenges oppression in ALL its forms, whether it’s queerphobia, anti-immigrant discrimination or the oppression of sex workers face at the hands of the failed Nordic model.

Join us on July 8th to come together and fight! Now is the time to speak up. Now is the time to get organised. Now is the time to say loudly and unequivocally: TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!