The group will protest the waiting list for transgender healthcare and demand the safety of the transgender community.
Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin will hold their annual protest from approximately 2pm at the Garden of Remembrance before marching to Leinster House.
The group said it is "marching not only for legislative change but for a complete change in the way society is run".
In a statement on Twitter, LGBTQ+ youth group Belong To said they are marching for the safety of the transgender and intersex community and "simplified gender recognition" for 16- and 17-year-olds.
The group wishes to “counter false messages and ‘debates’ about trans lives”.
Trans healthcare
Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin member Jenny Maguire said, following the Dublin Pride march last month, it is “time to pull out all the stops”.
“We are already in a world where trans people in Ireland have to wait 10 years for their healthcare,” she said in a statement on Twitter.
“Enough is enough.”
Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin is seeking "Bodily Autonomy for All, which includes replacing the National Gender Service Psychiatric model of care with a GP-led, informed consent-based trans healthcare as well as a ban on the barbaric practice of Intersex Genital mutilation".
Ireland is currently ranked the worst in the EU for transgender healthcare, with reported waiting times between two and a half and ten years.
The National Gender Service previously claimed waiting lists for transgender healthcare is over three years, and “is likely to get worse”.
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ 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! pic.twitter.com/Ng6fyGLaW0
— Trans & Intersex Pride Dublin 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (@DubTrans) May 12, 2023
Ms Maguire also noted "the far right has risen and mobilised" in the last year.
“All marginalised people and their allies must reject this entirely – [the far right] are not going to stop with refugees and trans people,” she said.
“They will keep going until their white supremacist society is fully realised.
"This is seen clearly with the backlash from known far-right agitators in Cork and Dublin around LGBTQ+ specific books targeting library workers."
Yesterday, hundreds of protesters marched on Cork’s City Hall in support of library staff who said they were being continuously harassed for offering LGBTQ+ books, including one instance where a book was stolen and destroyed.
A group opposed to the books began a counter-protest, leading to one altercation between the groups, according to Gardaí.
Attacks
Socialist TD Mick Barry has encouraged people to attend the protest, noting the rise in transphobic sentiment in Ireland.
“Trans friends in recent weeks and months tell they’re hearing stories of more attacks on trans people in the last couple of months than they would have heard in the previous couples of years,” he said.
“There needs to be a strong and militant response to this increase in transphobia and hate crimes.”
Main image: Supporters at the Trans Day remembrance day 2021. Image via Rolling ews.
