LGBTQ-PHOBIA - STATUS REPORT - IN ISRAEL #9

The young members of the LGBTQ community, who have not yet reached adulthood, are forced to deal with many systems in which unique difficulties arise. These include their parents’ difficulty in accepting their gender identity, as well as additional issues which arise from the educational system’s inability to adapt and provide professional assistance to the needs of the trans community’s students.

Judicial system4%

Workplace 6%

Other spheres 11%

Recievingserviceat abusiness 7%

Publicfigueres’ statments2%

Transphobic Arenas

HealthSystem29%

Family12%

Close tohome 5%

Public sphere5%

Educational esteblishments9%

Violent Incidents 10%

Community coping

Throughout the year we have worked together with LGBTQ community organizations to change the complex reality of the trans community. In 2020, in a joint community effort, we collaborated with the Minister of Welfare and the Minister of Justice to establish the inter-ministerial team that is designed to promote and work with the trans community. In 2021, recommendations were adopted that were the result of hard work by organizations and inter-ministerial staff. The solutions proposed included models for a broad intervention, such as: 1. Integrating men and women from the trans community into public service through a voluntary model, which will encourage the recruitment of employees from the community and even create incentives to promote this issue. 2. Establishing emergency lodging frameworks for the trans community from the age of 18 and up without an upper age limit, as well as opening a tender for operating 8 designated transitional apartments. In addition, the Aguda operates a legal department that provides assistance to various issues as well as dedicated legal assistance to the trans community in collaboration with the law firm of Kalai-Rosen. Moreover, in January 2021, a trans social worker network was established at the “Maavarim” organization, funded, and supervised by the Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs, in order to make welfare services accessible to the trans community and to train and strengthen relevant welfare responses. In matters related to the trans community, as well as accompaniment and assistance in exercising social and medical rights, in the first year of the network’s activity, about 1,400 applications were handled.