HOUSTON, TX – What’s unfair to Houston ’s Gia Pacheco is that each election cycle the transgender, immigrant communities, and others are used as an “expendable pawn ” for votes.
In the meantime, biased laws get passed that hurt Gay, immigrant communities in the Lone Star State, says Pacheco.
“The hate that ’s pushed during these Congressional hearings, during an election year – it ’s used as a tool to get votes for their party, but they have lasting results, ” Pacheco told GLAAD.
Pacheco made evident that after an election, officials move on. Although their social focus shifts to another issues,” the people who suffer from those discriminatory rules will still be suffering from those laws,” and will be required to live under a fresh set of harsh rules. In the coming election cycle, trans people and immigrants will likely become political pawns once more, making those pointless laws yet more demanding.
Pacheco is a second generation Mexican-American, transgender activist struggling for LGBTQ, emigration freedom and against Christian nationalism. At the request of Equality Texas to join and advance the voices of linguistic Latine, Hispanic speakers at the Montrose Center LGBTQ Center in Houston, she sat and spoke with Monica Trasandes, the Senior Director of the GLAAD Media Institute’s Spanish-Language Media & Representation group.
Through the Camera-Ready Latine Leaders action, the education was a part of a GLAAD Media Institute program to provide more accurate and fair voices on issues involving immigrant communities to mainstream media and discussion.
Each advocate spoke to major problems impacting their areas, including, emigration, reproductive justice, LGBTQ safe regulations, and what they’re doing to fight actively for all three.
“It’s just become a reality that [in ] this country, if you’re not a Christian ideal, or what is seen as a Christian ideal, you will eventually become a target, ” said Pacheco. “Roe v. Wade was a right that was given before I was born, but now it ’s gone, ” Pacheco continued.
Having said that, human rights violations are still pervasive in Texas.
Next month, the Supreme Court ruled to preserve one of “the most extraordinary anti-immigration ” laws in place, known as Texas Senate Bill 4 (88-4). According to the report, the legislation would force local and state law police to detain and detain people who they believe have entered Texas without national approval.
Regulations like SB4 (88-4 ) lead to racial profiling, separation of families, and trauma of Black and Brown communities across Texas.
In addition, anti-LGBTQ laws such as the “Don’t Say Gay/Trans ” law censor, surveille, and block impertinent information and literature on LGBTQ education in schools. Texas also bans transgender, gender nonbinary, and intersex care, and has banned transgender kids from school activities.
Unfortunately, the Lone Star State is at the centre of anti-LGBTQ, sexual, and ethnocentrist crime. Just last month, Equality Texas tallied more than 140 anti-LGBTQ charges in 2023. These expenses compound the injury introduced into areas that are expat, LGBTQ, Latine communities.
The fact that the LGBT community acknowledges that their identities are also included in our overview is a significant factor. Although it is not known whether a person can be a transgender or a person can be a parezco Mexicana, there are still many ways to go about doing so, and now they can deshacer the results of their efforts, Pacheco said.
The President and CEO of Empoderando a Hombres Trans, or Trans Men Empowerment, Daron Yanes Perez stands in society with Pacheco. He says “la organización comenzó en este 2023. ”
“Apenas cumplimos us año y pues todo empezó par un grupo de chicos. Éramos bien que teníamos experiencias una compartidas, ” Perez said.
Perez continues to say that Trans Men Empowerment formed through a need for american, Latino, trans male awareness, tools and security. Something that is not readily accessible to so many trans people.
There are many anti-trans, anti-LGBT, and anti-LGBT people who have been treated to poner against the law, ponernos para un lado and vernos as juguetes, as well as the fact that no one can help if they do so. So, lo veo muy personalmente. Yo lo que pienso es que deberíamos seguir luchando contra eso, para obtener la igualdad, ” Perez continued.
The president added that while Texans continue to be the target of human rights violations, it is crucial for trans men and communities to find ways to support one another.
About 1. 8 million Texans are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, which is the second-highest such population ( following California ) for any US State, according to 2022 data from the
With the assistance of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law’s Human Rights Clinic, Equality Texas, the ACLU of Texas, GLAAD, and the Human Rights Campaign submitted a to 17 independent experts, working groups, and special rapporteurs at the UN about the human rights crisis facing LGBTQIA + Texans.
State leaders are failing us, according to Richardo Martinez, president and CEO of Equality Texas. ”
The dire state of LGBTQIA + rights in Texas is highlighted by the failure to adhere to the bare minimum requirements of international human rights agreements. When state leaders let us down, we turn to the courts and the federal government, and the world when it fails to do the same. When our state is falling short of the world’s established human rights standards, which have been in place for almost 50 years, we ca n’t pretend to be a beacon of freedom. Our country can only be as strong as its weakest link, and Texas is currently dragging our country into a human rights crisis, which will hurt our LGBTQIA + neighbors at home, according to Martinez.
Pacheco and Perez leave call-to-actions for their peers.
“I’d like to emphasize that if you’re currently on the fence about any political topic, try not to fall into the scandal that ’s going on with that topic, ” Pacheco insisted. She said to do your research and follow the facts versus the propaganda, and vote.
Perez advises us to continue to support us by providing resources, sharing on social media, and attending Trans Men Empowerment events.
The organizer remarked,” Solo digo que es muy important también emocionalmente estar ah ah para apoyar tus amistades y familiares que s son parte de la comunidad.”
