00:03When I feel like I'm going to go to the bathroom, I have to think about what is the bathroom
00:06most hidden, so that they don't see me in the bathroom.
00:17When you're born with a pen, you're condemned to be macho, when you're born with a vulva, you're condemned to
00:21be a woman.
00:22When you're born with a woman, it's terrible. If you're born with a woman, we have to rehabilitate it, it's
00:29not adequate.
00:30When you don't comply with those stereotypes of the woman or the man, it's when everything is complicated.
00:38When, of course, I don't comply with that stereotype of the woman, I'm not the woman voluptuous, I'm the woman
00:45delgad, culona, with the long hair,
00:47I'm not the only person who makes a beer, I have caramelized.
00:53And this doesn't represent a woman for the normative society,
00:59then it doesn't represent a woman then the tendency is to not recognize it.
01:05The person needs to feel comfortable with how to feel safe and how to feel.
01:10What happens to the trans person when they come to the bathroom is that the bathroom is a binary division
01:16that is evidenced in the binary of our society.
01:18So what happens when a person who doesn't identify with a gender normative
01:23within the feminine or in the masculine and has to enter a bathroom
01:26is that it is exposed to a lot of violence
01:29for the very explicit and so complicated
01:32that there are in those violent spaces like the bathroom.
01:36My name is Julie Salamanca,
01:37I am a Social Communication at the University of Javeriana
01:41and I am a Director of Communication at PARCES-ONG.
01:44How many people trans have been violated women?
01:48Do we have a data or a study that we guarantee
01:51that people trans have violated women when we enter the bathroom
01:54that we correspond?
01:56So the main problem is this,
01:59how do we divide between men and women?
02:01In the University of Javeriana,
02:03I lived a lot of violence while trying to enter the bathroom
02:07which is the bathroom of women.
02:10I had very strong experiences
02:12and I had experiences that the safety staff
02:13to enter the bathroom,
02:14to say that this bathroom is not appropriate.
02:17I had experiences that the same students
02:20did not call the safety staff
02:22to get me out.
02:23Experiences of looks,
02:25and jokes,
02:25and comments like,
02:26what is your face here?
02:27What is your face here?
02:29And it's very complicated.
02:30It's very complicated.
02:31It's very complicated.
02:31It's very complicated.
02:32What do you eat?
02:33What do you eat?
02:34to not have to go to the bathroom.
02:36In my transit, I started and every body works differently.
02:41In my case, I have to go every 25 or 30 minutes to the bathroom
02:45and I have to go to the bathroom.
02:46It's not something that I can wait or wait until I arrive
02:50to the bathroom or go to my house.
02:52In terms of the existing normality,
02:54there is no normality that explicitly says
02:56that a person who was born with a certain organ
03:00should enter a bathroom.
03:02So, what we have tried to do from the educational institutions
03:06is to generate these spaces
03:08through formal solicitudes
03:10to the universities
03:11to implement the possibility
03:14that there is a bathroom.
03:15We are not asking for a bathroom for the trans
03:17or to put a bathroom just between the trans.
03:20We are demanding
03:22that we let them go to the bathroom
03:25that we correspond.
03:26But it's one thing to put on the other's shoes
03:28and think
03:29how can I reduce the violence?
03:32How can I make it easier
03:33and more comfortable
03:35to the university life
03:36to this trans person?
03:37There is a program
03:39that is called Inclusión y Diversidad.
03:42I am going to take up
03:44to multiple
03:47manifestations
03:49sexuales, raciales
03:50or linguistic
03:50that we complement both
03:52African-American groups
03:53as well as African-American groups
03:54as well as some persons
03:57live in the violence
03:58and in this group
04:00are particular
04:01those people
04:02that have a change
04:03or a special event
04:05in their sexual identity
04:11The university, the facultad and the rector have committed to create a new baño for every
04:19field where I saw classes, I have not seen changes.
04:22Our commitment is to study, to look at it, and we have mentioned, of course, there are
04:26instances of government with the same rector, and at this moment we are evaluating the situation,
04:30but suddenly we have not initiated that.
04:34I am a student, I am a student that is paying the same thing as any other student.
04:38I am paying $8.700.000 for the career that I am studying.
04:42So, I have the right to enter the bathroom tranquila,
04:45to enter the bathroom without looking at me, without looking at me, without pushing me,
04:49without pushing me, without pushing me, without pushing me, without pushing me.
04:52I mean, no more.
04:53Every day I can't be in pedagogical.
04:55It's cool.
04:56I always say that it's cool that I can be in pedagogical.
04:58And when a teacher says, no, I'm a woman trans, it's cool that I can be,
05:03but not all the days I'm going to be like this.
05:05There are days that I can't be in the damn bed and say,
05:09I'm like, you're watching, you're watching that I'm a woman and all the time.
05:12All the days I'm not going to be that much.
05:14Obviously, in the discourse of building peace, I do it.
05:17I do what I try and all the days I do, but there are days that I come to study
05:20and I want to leave.
05:22Or not to come.
05:23It's because being trans is something that means to be a very strong person.
05:27I say that there is nothing more beautiful than being born in a trans body, it's really something
05:31of pride, it's something really beautiful, it's like if I were to be born, I would be
05:36to be born in a trans person, but I feel that this is really of guerreras and guerrero,
05:41because every day one has to hold thousands of violations, thousands of vulnerabilities,
05:47and I will say, it's not the issue of victimization, because it's not that we are staying like
05:52poor victims, but we are generating, like this fear and this trans rabia, the vehicle
05:57perfect for justice and the social change.
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