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Crisis In UkraineCheck out our update to understand the current crisis in #Ukraine and how you can help. #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtqiaplus @KharkivPride @KyivPride
ЛГБТ військові - Ukrainian LGBT militaryЧотири історії про ЛГБТ військових, волонтерів та ветеранів на кінофестивалях країни
Жанр: документальний
Режисер: Максим Наконечний
Фільми створені за підтримки CFLI та ГО "Точка опори ЮА"
Trailer to 4 short documentaries about the Ukrainian military, volunteers and veterans, who belong to the Union of the Ukrainian LGBT+ soldiers.
Genre: documentary.
Film director Maksym Nakonechnyy
TaborProduction studio
Films were created with the help of the CFLI and NGO Fulcrum UA
Report from Kyiv: LGBTQ Activist Says Ukrainians Are United in Resisting Russian InvasionUkraine is demanding an immediate ceasefire and for all Russian troops to leave the country as they report more than 350 Ukrainian civilians have so far been killed in President Putin's invasion, which entered its fifth day Monday. The United Nations is also reporting more than 500,000 people have fled Ukraine and another 100,000 are internally displaced. This all comes as the Russian military has so far failed in its attempts to seize Kyiv and other large Ukrainian cites despite the capital remaining surrounded by Russian troops. We go to Kyiv to speak with Olena Shevchenko, a Ukrainian human rights and LGBTQ activist, who describes growing opposition to Russian forces and solidarity within her country. "Nobody in Ukraine is ready to live under occupation of Russia," says Shevchenko, who also says that LGBTQ-identifying people would be "the first targets for the Russian regime."
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Problems Ahead for LGBT+ Ukrainians if Russia InvadesUkraine’s LGBT+ community is on high alert in the face of a potential Russian invasion. Under President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government, they enjoy free speech and assembly protections, but fear discrimination if Ukraine falls under Moscow’s authority. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias reports.
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Transgender Woman Shares Her Experience Transitioning in UkraineAnastasia-Eva Kristel Domani – a few years ago having this name was a great dream for the Kyiv woman. At 37, she began hormone replacement therapy as part of her transition. She says she remembers taking that first pill and coming to the realization that she was starting a new life.
In Ukraine, it’s not easy to start the process of transitioning. A transgender person needs to get a psychiatric diagnosis of ‘transsexualism’ and then wait two years before they can start hormone replacement therapy and change their documents.
But less than two years ago, this process was even more difficult. Under the former framework, repealed by the Ukrainian Health Ministry in late 2016, transgender people were forced to undergo psychiatric observation as a hospital inpatient for up to 45 days, get a divorce and submit to having surgery, just to have their gender identity legally recognized.
Domani now has new legal documents that match her gender identity and has been removed from the country’s army register, which formerly made her liable for military service. But there are still formalities and challenges ahead.
These days Domani shares her experience with other transgender people, participates in various human rights conferences and consults on trans issues for international organizations, including Amnesty International Ukraine and Trans Coalition in Post-Soviet Space.
She has a child and a wife. Her daughter calls her "daddy". She hasn’t discussed the transition with her relatives yet. She says she dreams of waking up one day with the knowledge that everyone already knows of her transition. She hopes for understanding and acceptance.
Domani talked to Hromadske about her experience of transitioning and the challenges faced by trans people in Ukraine.
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