tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48309057850372153052024-03-24T09:11:47.025+02:00Anukatariinan päästötAnukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-17096222576566510072023-10-07T12:27:00.005+03:002023-10-07T12:40:51.189+03:00 Facing hatred - The Nordic LGBTI meeting in Reykjavik 25.-27.9.2023<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYghpFGUIpOjaT2oKxty0luIyNOqkkYFVb3c7kcPM46YZxOGH-MUYC6zg2jo-601FTuk7fHr4QdJYqU5p1N8P0AbGY-vK8T_eG_Aq0g_W8S6QcETBWgC9y9kEKtVodr6tbmmBmj5iezyL0eNI3qGUpRnA3WPxSscpvJsPOCHvFM0KWqwku9XNJ2h3nZtJM/s3273/01.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2680" data-original-width="3273" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYghpFGUIpOjaT2oKxty0luIyNOqkkYFVb3c7kcPM46YZxOGH-MUYC6zg2jo-601FTuk7fHr4QdJYqU5p1N8P0AbGY-vK8T_eG_Aq0g_W8S6QcETBWgC9y9kEKtVodr6tbmmBmj5iezyL0eNI3qGUpRnA3WPxSscpvJsPOCHvFM0KWqwku9XNJ2h3nZtJM/w403-h330/01.JPG" width="403" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At the end of September, I had an interesting opportunity to participate
in a meeting of Nordic rainbow organizations in Reykjavik. The occasion also
had dramatic echoes and a sad reminder that the realization of the rights of
rainbow people is by no means taken for granted even in model countries of
human rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It was great to talk to people from all the Nordic countries, including
the Faroe Islands and Greenland. I learned from the people of these countries
that even official rainbow rights are not implemented in the same way
everywhere. In both of these countries, trans people are treated in Denmark.
The most upsetting thing was to hear that the use and import of hormones that
are essentially related to treatments is prohibited in Greenland. The attitude
towards trans people might be rough there anyway, although in fact the Inuit
tradition recognizes gender diversity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The countries' situations varied to some extent, but all reported
increased anti-gender activism and a huge increase in hate speech and threats
of violence. Several workshops were held on this theme.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The equality ministers of the countries were also present, and they met
with each other on these themes. In particular, the Prime Minister of Iceland,
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, had invested a lot in the occasion, and she also gave a
speech at the opening at the Reykjavik City Hall. At the same event, I got to
know Johannes, the chairman of the Swedish trans organization FPES, who had
been assaulted in July in connection with Pride in Vesterås.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQp-zynt74aoeBFFwJHB2Lg3A4du_E-2zvFayLbnDBlqtwO7zuLM6sCH2bYKOSYvGvGxKfVHWSltBsJJNzjUgjSci5gvINpymeCSEe5M2OEPk33u2CzEeKIIsSZucEpKQBL5D6P3Gyib3Br7zUA3gglFM-dTTfQr22pY4LZ-eHTMcPfEKNNVg6Nm3JrIEk/s3099/12.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Katrín Jakobsdóttir" border="0" data-original-height="3099" data-original-width="3038" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQp-zynt74aoeBFFwJHB2Lg3A4du_E-2zvFayLbnDBlqtwO7zuLM6sCH2bYKOSYvGvGxKfVHWSltBsJJNzjUgjSci5gvINpymeCSEe5M2OEPk33u2CzEeKIIsSZucEpKQBL5D6P3Gyib3Br7zUA3gglFM-dTTfQr22pY4LZ-eHTMcPfEKNNVg6Nm3JrIEk/w314-h320/12.JPG" width="314" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ministers were interviewed at the conference about the results of their
meeting. Nothing very concrete was promised from that direction, but monitoring
the situation from a Nordic perspective is certainly much-needed support in all
countries.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoddYPy_NZTUV1AKjII7xU6HwWrAPsNgwFaL1ty3xDGH-PVJmIYjJQK3Qz9eyqqQeyOjzXZJKpnV8c54fomgzqklPGObNnV-BwDUQyX8OMObVtjhHGFP3-vwu3u9ALaaHwNuK_aT9LL3-ac-BMfW7CqRcDIuG_krUTlRNFWlU7hPEgMBMRgQAIzQggDAyq/s5184/16.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Nordic equality ministers interviewed" border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoddYPy_NZTUV1AKjII7xU6HwWrAPsNgwFaL1ty3xDGH-PVJmIYjJQK3Qz9eyqqQeyOjzXZJKpnV8c54fomgzqklPGObNnV-BwDUQyX8OMObVtjhHGFP3-vwu3u9ALaaHwNuK_aT9LL3-ac-BMfW7CqRcDIuG_krUTlRNFWlU7hPEgMBMRgQAIzQggDAyq/w320-h240/16.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Marie Bjerre, Denmark's Minister for Equality, seemed to be generally
unaware of the problems in the areas under her responsibility. The delegations
of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland took care that ignorance could not
be pleaded after the conference.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh25htFFuoxaxwAfOIvtBK2QBbPPb0vb0xUHrtaroA6xETiymd_4V0y38ahW3NoysqJCJ8_ywzWOoXiQM6ML7bjwlv-lo02x-Tobd_zVApHGGA1mrqZskJ2iRzRC9kUNDA1nIdTtT73XlJ37r7zXCZPWS5KhGIq_P58H4I1pUTicqjs8mFHn2x2fEq0MaAj/s5184/18.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Denmark's Minister for Equality Marie Bjerre challenged" border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh25htFFuoxaxwAfOIvtBK2QBbPPb0vb0xUHrtaroA6xETiymd_4V0y38ahW3NoysqJCJ8_ywzWOoXiQM6ML7bjwlv-lo02x-Tobd_zVApHGGA1mrqZskJ2iRzRC9kUNDA1nIdTtT73XlJ37r7zXCZPWS5KhGIq_P58H4I1pUTicqjs8mFHn2x2fEq0MaAj/w320-h240/18.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We also had discussions with the Finnish Minister for Equality, Sanni
Grahn-Laasonen. She promised to invite the Finnish rainbow organizations to a
discussion about domestic challenges in the near future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I myself participated in a workshop related to discrimination in working
life, where a Nordic project was discussed to map the situation. The report on
it will be published next March, and part of its section on Finland will be
based on the survey reports I prepared. The situation in the Nordic countries
seems to be quite similar here: Discrimination still occurs, and members of
gender minorities are at greater risk of marginalization than the rest of the
population. On the other hand, positive developments were also observed
everywhere, members of gender minorities had experienced fairly extensive
support due to their identity at workplaces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vUsFTyCMiajLognGefeYDEwSKdrMMsn0q2f3zq4rOywSXKUNZY3CWwGwU_Rh5hH1btQANuYrH2vyWQUPmJPeJ0VwgWf_RyvAc16ucWQ9x5_uSxRE022zWeped_998GcMKWpoo_SM3GMJeflaIwDvYuxh8hNwajd2ATlMkYWjjqGaa3fDf8hGe7XGHJ8d/s5184/14.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Swedish colleagues at the workplace workshop" border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vUsFTyCMiajLognGefeYDEwSKdrMMsn0q2f3zq4rOywSXKUNZY3CWwGwU_Rh5hH1btQANuYrH2vyWQUPmJPeJ0VwgWf_RyvAc16ucWQ9x5_uSxRE022zWeped_998GcMKWpoo_SM3GMJeflaIwDvYuxh8hNwajd2ATlMkYWjjqGaa3fDf8hGe7XGHJ8d/w320-h240/14.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In short periods of free time, I explored Reykjavik, which was
previously unknown to me. The core of the city consists of small and in some
places charming commercial and residential buildings - only a few buildings
gave a more massive impression. Of course, an impressive new business centre
had been built by the sea, which I consistently avoided.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9vLxxYP5ZM8_a0DgEH-g7GY5Xyv3seETtXRLuy23ZlXRdt7INYN-_kn3ro7Z1FeIkSQ0JfoQkUiemaDIBYMDpZhHxGWzJ8kofvAI57Dbyi64GOFXdpFxE5p_BF26LsaIu4XwjEOZP40rdEGLmOaCaBlXbBPQMaE7VQlciox4WObhjd-xeI7TDTeeA2Dch/s5184/08.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9vLxxYP5ZM8_a0DgEH-g7GY5Xyv3seETtXRLuy23ZlXRdt7INYN-_kn3ro7Z1FeIkSQ0JfoQkUiemaDIBYMDpZhHxGWzJ8kofvAI57Dbyi64GOFXdpFxE5p_BF26LsaIu4XwjEOZP40rdEGLmOaCaBlXbBPQMaE7VQlciox4WObhjd-xeI7TDTeeA2Dch/s320/08.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhygkCkvVKKmbc08dZ0R_iBI7j7ghg6FcOLgjMan1v_aH1G4wBiaSDYP8PA3ItbDUZLJFldsgo54rKMwC_ZGZEjn58WKJNnhbaa21wZ_M-NWtlM3SM1ZLW4GZcbGOv-CUIu1m7-urFC1o3NOzS9D9mXsoMDb-X8XJj3GsqmLxmyoq6NDVcCgyZpTkdJrg6T/s5184/09.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhygkCkvVKKmbc08dZ0R_iBI7j7ghg6FcOLgjMan1v_aH1G4wBiaSDYP8PA3ItbDUZLJFldsgo54rKMwC_ZGZEjn58WKJNnhbaa21wZ_M-NWtlM3SM1ZLW4GZcbGOv-CUIu1m7-urFC1o3NOzS9D9mXsoMDb-X8XJj3GsqmLxmyoq6NDVcCgyZpTkdJrg6T/s320/09.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The conference ended with a wonderful gala dinner where we enjoyed local
delicacies. As a louse hater, I had avoided cod until then, but now it came to
my plate not so unexpectedly, but still without asking. I was amazed at the way
it was prepared: I had never had cod to taste. And it tasted good, the typical
dull taste of cod was gone! I had already tasted lamb before, and it tasted
great every time it was prepared with high quality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEginwPj3y6XDIGCDe3ttVM55EtS1ocXOSKhy10kSyUajivebwMZPc2vThTqs0umkDkor4-7R2ygws_GaqJXDKuyI2rCb8SyMAck77nW07Sg-XpDKoPLOGcYT-b7N5sMf3A0xbSE0b7kD8uuSUlJMETWJ3cEkZ7M_O5JciRLuAeHjUmB8dbzwT2R7WlZsnBX/s5184/19.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Starting the gala dinner" border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEginwPj3y6XDIGCDe3ttVM55EtS1ocXOSKhy10kSyUajivebwMZPc2vThTqs0umkDkor4-7R2ygws_GaqJXDKuyI2rCb8SyMAck77nW07Sg-XpDKoPLOGcYT-b7N5sMf3A0xbSE0b7kD8uuSUlJMETWJ3cEkZ7M_O5JciRLuAeHjUmB8dbzwT2R7WlZsnBX/w320-h240/19.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At the end of the gala dinner, the program was also wonderful: a large
number of original Icelandic Eurovision representatives had been brought to the
place. I personally skipped that treat because I wanted to keep the domestic
circadian rhythm - in Iceland, the clock is three hours behind ours.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When I left the old movie theatre, which had been the venue, I talked
for a while with the security person, who I had known, and I said that it seems
to be a bit out of the ordinary gig... I didn't know at the time how right that
throw was. When we were in the conference facilities, we had to wear a name tag
hanging from a rainbow ribbon around our necks at all times. Of course, it was
hidden under the coat during the approximately one kilometre journey through
the city centre to the hotel. As an oldish lady I haven't experience any particular trheat, not even any attention, so I've felt quite safe while being out so far.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">After a restless night of sleep - the souvenir flu started to hit - I looked at the messages in our delegation's WhatsApp group and was shocked:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At night, my new friend Johannes was beaten on his way back to the hospital. The main reason for this had apparently been the rainbow ribbon given for safety, which had been visible. I also heard that the party had not been stopped because of this, and there had been no information about it, but people were relying on the rumours they received through their own networks. However, taxis were reserved for those returning to the hotel. The Finnish delegation had held a debriefing meeting right after arriving at the hotel while I was sleeping, and another debriefing meeting was held after returning to Finland.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj97KAWansR2bacnxH5yQtsijgLrrYmbUinHaGAe3gwpE5sGhlcaFY2oB9JrEOkCwnDCI-OnV9_E2aqz1LwsfV4LxrB-g1oiExYjQQ2JRHbcBIzF5-BLDr-a_4FzCguZzO9-sdWIC2VsxliVopM_jeZMSxhrorbRvFq8kjxDapqJ4xnmcTzCZiAOCoukSuq/s5099/04.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3824" data-original-width="5099" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj97KAWansR2bacnxH5yQtsijgLrrYmbUinHaGAe3gwpE5sGhlcaFY2oB9JrEOkCwnDCI-OnV9_E2aqz1LwsfV4LxrB-g1oiExYjQQ2JRHbcBIzF5-BLDr-a_4FzCguZzO9-sdWIC2VsxliVopM_jeZMSxhrorbRvFq8kjxDapqJ4xnmcTzCZiAOCoukSuq/s320/04.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Anti-gay and anti-trans hatred arises out of fear and confusion towards
difference, which then so often turns into aggression. Currently, this hatred
is ruthlessly exploited by international religious actors and nationalist and
populist political movements. The central task of equality work is to make
these things familiar and commonplace, so that this type of thinking loses its
growth platform.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-83049623360100139302023-03-25T14:08:00.011+02:002024-03-23T18:31:26.509+02:00<p><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt;">"Woketus" kiihottaa perussuomalaisia transasioissakin</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif""></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 11pt; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAZaHHbjdWOsXQmbHYMuoXc4JPgY46GNvhtMuX0AwljsU3vsxLannfZzn9JTqttwzSS-a7ETNejwUef1jR87mf-6w0_maQ9VUJikwA8x-zifLklA7QUDbQ7Y5ybs9-3gpmPLdplX6uwdAafWSKI8a-dmyEds0OTF11v70vxxxS_OtbGUlIfuQxmhoHxw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="6000" data-original-width="4000" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAZaHHbjdWOsXQmbHYMuoXc4JPgY46GNvhtMuX0AwljsU3vsxLannfZzn9JTqttwzSS-a7ETNejwUef1jR87mf-6w0_maQ9VUJikwA8x-zifLklA7QUDbQ7Y5ybs9-3gpmPLdplX6uwdAafWSKI8a-dmyEds0OTF11v70vxxxS_OtbGUlIfuQxmhoHxw=w197-h295" width="197" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Kuva: Anna Shvets / Pexels</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif""><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Perussuomalaisten ajatushautomo Suomen Perusta on kasannut kokoon
sopivasti vaalien alla uuden <a href="https://www.suomenperusta.fi/content/uploads/2023/03/Woke-pdf.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3pWdehRcnlS41B5jm_7_j518BVYlkYclD0PGltmWcLLB0bDE8Hl6tBS3U" target="_blank">pamfletin</a>, tällä kertaa kiihottaa Woke. Tekele on
täynnä puolitotuuksia ja suoria valheita. Sopivasti se ilmestyi vaalien alla
siksi, että niitä ei kukaan ennätä kaikkia riittävän laajalla levikillä
kumoamaan.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Politiikka muokkaa pseudotiedettä
ja pseudotiede poliittisia valheita<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Tässä artikkelissa keskitytään lukuun, jonka otsikkona on
”Tutkimusnäyttö ja politiikka transkysymyksessä”. Tekstin on laatinut Marko
Hamilo. Ilmoitettuina lähteinä hänelle ovat olleet kaksi opusta:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Abigail
Shriererin teos “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our
Daughters” ja <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Debra
Sohn “The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our
Society”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">On syytä avata ensin näiden tekstien tekijöiden taustaa, ja sitten
itse tekstejä.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.transgendermap.com/politics/psychology/debra-soh/" target="_blank">Debra Soh</a> on kanadalainen entinen seksitutkija ja nykyinen
kulttuurikriitikko, joka tunnetaan parhaiten sukupuolikriittisistä
näkemyksistään. Hän on Wokesta ja Cancel-kulttuurista vouhkaavan, alt-rightia
lähellä olevan Intellectual Dark Webin jäsen. Sohin väitöskirja liittyy
homoseksuaalisuuteen liittyvään aivotutkimukseen, mutta transsukupuolisuudesta
ja sukupuolen ulottuvuuksista ylipäätään hänellä vaikuttaa olevan huterat
tiedot. Hän on käyttänyt kirjoituksissaan perusteina useita sukupuoli-identiteettiä
ja ilmaisua patologisoivia malleja, kuten huteralle pohjalle rakennettu teoria
"äkillisesti ilmaantuvasta sukupuolidysforiasta" (ROGD) ja täysin vanhentuneet
käsitteet ”parafilia” ja "autogynefilia".</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Viime mainitulla yritettiin selittää aikanaan transsukupuolisuus
siten, että kyse olisi omaan kehoon kohdistuvasta eroottisesta suhteesta sen
ollessa feminiininen. Ilmiön tunnuspiirteitä on sittemmin <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19591032/" target="_blank">testattu cisnaisille</a>,
ja on ilmennyt, että merkittävällä määrällä heitäkin voidaan tunnistaa
autogynefilian tunnusmerkit. Käsite ei siis selitä tai erota transsukupuolisuutta millään muotoa.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Freelance-toimittaja <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-part-one/" target="_blank">Abigail Shrie</a>r tiesi omankin
lausuntonsa mukaan vain vähän sukupuolidysforiasta ennen kirjansa
kirjoittamista. Hän myöntää myös, että hänellä on mitätön ymmärrys ihmisen
anatomiasta, psykologiasta ja endokrinologiasta.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Shrieriä on syytetty transsukupuolisten nuorten sukupuolikokemusta
vahvistavan lääketieteellisen hoidon kieltämisen edistämisestä teoksessaan.
Shrieriä on myös syytetty siitä, että hän tulkitsi väärin ja valikoi
tarkoitushakuisesti tieteellisiä todisteita kirjansa väitteiden tueksi. Kirja
sisältää runsaasti suorastaan vihamielistä kielenkäyttöä transihmisiä kohtaan,
ja siinä haastateltavana ovat olleet transnuorten sijasta heidän lapsistaan
huolestuneet transkielteiset vanhemmat. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Myös Shierer perustaa </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreversible_Damage" style="font-size: 11pt;" target="_blank">ajatuksensa</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> tieteellistä konsensusta vailla
olevaan Lisa Littmanin keksimään nuorten tyttöjen ”äkillisesti ilmenevään
sukupuolidysforiaan”.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Shierer vaikuttaa olevan tietämätön siitä, mitä biotieteet
ovat löytäneet ”aivojen sukupuolittumisesta” – tai hän vain haluaa kiistää sen.
Tässä hän noudattaa TERF-ideologien ajatuksia, jotka puolestaan käyttävät
ahnaasti kirjan teesejä tieteellisinä todisteina omille käsityksilleen. Hän
myös käyttää käsityksiään perustellessaan väitteitä nuorten sosiaalisen median
ja mielenterveyden välisestä suhteesta, jotka on todettu tieteellisesti
pätemättömiksi. Vaikka on ilmeistä, että joillakin teini-ikäisillä tytöillä
sukupuolen kanssa kipuilu voi liittyä muuhun kuin transkokemukseen liittyvään
dysforiaan, translasten kokemuksia on pyritty vähättelemään ja liittämään ne
tähän oletettuun ilmiöön. Kirja ei tosiaankaan ole maltillisesti ja huolella
kaikki tieteelliset näkökohdat huomioon ottava yritys selvittää sitä, mistä
nuorten tyttöoletettujen kasvanut hakeutuminen transtutkimuksiin johtuu.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/checkpoints/202101/review-irreversible-damage-abigail-shrier"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/checkpoints/202101/review-irreversible-damage-abigail-shrier</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Kirjan nimi on tunteita herättävä ja harhaanjohtava, ja se
on selvästi tarkoitettu hälyttämään kirjan kohderyhmänä olevia huolissaan olevia
vanhempia. Shrier käyttää emotionaalista kieltä kaikkialla vedotakseen
lukijaan. Kaikkialla kirjassaan hän viittaa tytöiksi syntymässä
määritettyihin translapsiin "biologisina tyttöinä", termillä, mikä sekoittaa kehonpiirteiden ja sex- ja gender-käsitteet.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Shrier käyttää lähteenään haastattelemiansa Paul McHughia ja
Kenneth Zuckeria, jotka ovat tulleet kuuluisiksi täysin kelvottomista, mutta
laajalle levitetyistä tutkimuksistaan, joiden mukaan valtaosa translapsista
päätyy cis-identiteettiin. Molemmilla translapsiksi on laskettu suuri määrä
sellaisia, jotka eivät täytä transalapsen kriteerejä. Toisaalta ”palautuminen
cis-identiteettiin” on täysin kelvottomasti dokumentoitu, sellaisiksi on
luokiteltu kaikki ne, joita ei ole saatu kiinni kontrollitutkimukseen
aikuisiällä, ja sellaisia, jotka ovat ”menneet kaappiin” uudestaan sosiaalisen
paineen takia.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Shrier käsittelee transsukupuolisuutta täysin virheellisesti
ja vailla minkäänlaista psykiatrista koulutusta mielenterveyden häiriönä ja
vertaa sitä mm. anoreksiaan. Samoilla perusteilla hän kyseenalaistaa
transihmisen ”itsediagnoosin” itsemäärittelyn perustana. Hän käsittää
sukupuoliroolit voimakkaan binäärisinä, jolloin esim. transmies, jolla on
jotain feminiinisiä piirteitä, on hänen mukaansa arveluttava.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Shrier liittää nuorten yleiset mielenterveysongelmat vailla
tieteellistä perustetta transnuorten ongelmiin. Jälkimmäisissä on kyse ennen
kaikkea vähemmistöstressin aiheuttamista vaikutuksista.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Takaisin Hamiloon: kulttuurisotaa tuontitavarana</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Tällaisten lähteiden pohjalta on helppo laatia teksti, joka
edistää transvastaista agendaa, jos niitä ei tarkisteta. Koska lähteet ovat Atlantin takaa, myös konteksti on sieltä. Se vain ei toimi lainkaan Suomessa, jossa eletään ihan eri asetelmissa... tai siis toimii tietenkin, kun halutaan luoda vaalikansalle valheellisia uhkakuvia.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Marko Hamilo onkin
tätä kovasti yrittänyt. Hän esittää teesin, että sukupuolia on vain kaksi.
Siinä käsitteet menevät kuitenkin jo heti sekaisin: Ihmislaji toki tarvitsee
säilyäkseen hedelmöittäjiä ja hedelmöittyviä, mutta tiede tunnistaa
lukemattomia muita kehollisia rakenteita, jotka eivät ole yksiselitteisesti
kumpiakaan näistä. Lisääntymisfunktiolla ei siis voi selittää tyhjentävästi
ihmisen kehollista moninaisuutta.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Mitä tekemistä tällä on gender-sukupuolen kanssa, jää kokonaan
hämäräksi. Hamilo vetoaa Sohn lausuntoon, jonka mukaan hän ei ymmärrä
yrityksiä väkisin kutsua sukupuoli-identiteetiksi kaikkia mahdollisia
hämmennyksiä, mitä ihmiset voivat sukupuolen suhteen kokea. Hänen ongelmansa
onkin, että ei tosiaan ymmärrä asiasta riittävästi. Sukupuolen peruskokemuksia
on ääretön määrä kentässä, jossa yksilö kokee omakseen eriasteisesti syntymässä
määritellyn ja ”sen toisen” sukupuolen. Tämän varaan syntyy erilaisia
kulttuurisia sukupuoli-identiteettejä, joita on loputon määrä eri
kulttuureissa, myös nykyisessä länsimaisen kulttuurissa. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Soh ei ymmärrä ei-binäärien identiteettien relevanssia. Hän kutsuu niitä ”poikkeustapauksiksi”, joiden ei hänen mielestään ole järkevää väittää muuttavan itse järjestelmän kaksinapaisuutta. Kriittinen lukija huomaa tässä
kehäpäätelmän: Kaikki premissistä poikkeavat havainnot kuitataan poikkeukseksi. Soh kuitenkin tunnustaa ihmisellä voivan olla erilaisia
kokemuksia. Näin ainoaksi ehdotonta kaksinapaisuutta vaativaksi asiaksi jää vain mainitut hedelmöittämistä ja hedelmöittymistä koskeva jako. Tämä ei tietenkään oikeasti määritä kaikkea sukupuolen eri tasoilla ilmenevää kirjoa, ihminen ei ole pelkkä lisääntymisautomaatti.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Keskusteluun sukupuolten määrästä antaa oman värinsä se, että
Jeesus puhuu juutalaisen lain tuntemista sukupuolista <a href="https://raamattu.fi/raamattu/KR92/MAT.19/Matteus-19" target="_blank">Matteuksen evankeliumin mukaan</a>. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Tässä viitataan juutalaiseen lakiperintöön, joka koottiin pari
vuosisataa myöhemmin Talmudiksi. Siinä määritellään juridinen status </span><a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-eight-genders-in-the-talmud/" style="font-size: 11pt;" target="_blank">kahdeksalle eri sukupuolelle</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, joista kuusi perustuu synnynnäisiin kehonpiirteisiin
ja kaksi osin myös identiteettiin.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Hamilo kuvaa Sohin kirjan perusteella miesten ja naisten
aivorakenteiden eroja, ja toteaa ne mitättömän vähäisiksi. Tässä keskitytään
kuitenkin vain pieneen osaan eroista, joita on <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8955456/" target="_blank">monilla aivojen alueilla</a>. Erot
transihmisten kohdalla voivat olla yksilöllisesti vaihtelevia, mutta ovat
kuitenkin yhteydessä kokemuksen eroihin. Kyse on siis
biologisesta/neurologisesta erosta, josta seuraa psykologisia eroja - ja viime
kädessä myös sosiaalisia eroja. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Edelleen artikkelissa väitetään Sohn kirjaan nojaten, että samat
poikkeamat olisi löydettävissä sekä transsukupuolisilla että samaa sukupuolta
syntymässä merkityillä homoilla. Tämä väite on <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02005-9" target="_blank">tutkimusten</a> mukaan kerrassaan
paikkansa pitämätön: Sekä homoseksuaaleilla että trassukupuolisilla on
aivorakenteiden poikkeamia cis-heteroihin verrattuna, mutta homoseksuaalisten
ihmisten aivot muistuttavat enemmän syntymässä määriteltyjen lajitoverien
aivoja, kun taas transihmisten aivoissa on enemmän koetun sukupuolen edustajien
aivojen ominaisuuksia.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Seuraavaksi Hamilo käy translasten kimppuun toistamalla
vanhentuneita ja tutkimuksellisesti vääriä väittämiä siitä, että suurin osa
lasten transkokemuksi katsottavista tuntemuksista katoaa iän myötä. Kyse
on pääasiassa Paul McHughin ja Kenneth Zuckerin “tutkimuksista”, ja siis suorastaan
valheesta. Molempien <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-part-one/" target="_blank">tutkimuksissa</a> translapsiksi on laskettu suuri määrä
sellaisia, jotka eivät täytä transalapsen kriteerejä. Toisaalta ”palautuminen
cis-identiteettiin” on täysin kelvottomasti dokumentoitu, sellaisiksi on
luokiteltu niitäkin, joita ei ole saatu kiinni kontrollitutkimukseen
aikuisiällä, ja sellaisia, jotka ovat ”menneet kaappiin” uudestaan sosiaalisen
paineen takia.</span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Hyökkäys kohdistuu myös transalasten kasvatusperiaatteita kohtaan.
Tekstissä kauhistellaan, kuinka “Yhdysvalloissa lasten parissa työskentelevien
aikuisten on vaikea pitää työpaikkaansa, jos he poikkeavat tästä ainoasta
oikeasta ajattelutavasta.” Tämä voidaan nähdä kuitenkin aivan toisin, jos asiaa
tarkastellaan translapsen näkökulmasta: Jos aikuinen vähättelee lapsen
sukupuolikokemusta, se on lähtökohtaisesti henkistä väkivaltaa siihen
katsomatta, onko tuo kokemus pysyvä vai ei. Lasta ei ole sen kummemmin syytä
hyysätä suuntaan tai toiseen, vaan tukea hänen olemistaan ja mahdollista
etsimistään sellaisena, mikä se juuri nyt on. Tämä antaa myös tilaa sille, jos
lapsella on tarve tehdä muutos sosiaalisen sukupuolensa suhteen - mihin tahansa
suuntaan se sitten tapahtuukin.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Monta kappaletta käytetään toistaiseksi vailla tieteellistä näyttöä olevaan “äkillisesti ilmaantuvan transkokemuksen” (ROGD)
käsittelyyn ja kauhisteluun. Hamilo perustaa tekstinsä pääosin Shrierin
tekemiin haastatteluihin ja Littmanin ”ROGD-tutkimukseen”, joissa molemmissa
haastateltavina olivat transvastaiset vanhemmat, eikä kumpikaan ole saanut
mitään tieteellistä hyväksyntää. Todellisuudessa erilaisten transkokemusten
ilmaantumiselle nuoruusiässä on luonnollisia syitä:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Vaikka osalla transkokemus näkyy jo hyvin varhain, sitä on
ilmaantunut aina myös teini-iässä.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Entistä useampi on löytänyt kokemukselleen käsitteen ja
nimen. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Entistä useampi on uskaltautunut olemaan oma itsensä, kun
suvaitsemattomuus on vähentynyt(vrt. vasenkätisyyden huima lisääntyminen
1900-luvun alkupuolella)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Useasti
sukupuolivähemmistöihin kuuluvat nuoret etsiytyvät samoihin porukoihin, jolloin
on luonnollista, että samasta porukasta hakeutuu moni tutkimuksiin. Tämä voi
näyttää ulkopuolisesta tarkkailijasta “laumailmiöltä”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Jotta kauhisteltavista ilmiöistä syntyisi mahdollisimman
kauhisteltava, mukaan on otettu myös queer-identiteetti, jolla tarkoitetaan
tässä yhteydessä halua haastaa koko sukupuolijärjestelmä omalla olemisella.
Tähän kauheuteen liitetään myös muut muunsukupuoliset identiteetit. Tässä
menevätkin sitten iloisesti sekaisin käsitteet, ja selväksi käy, että Hamilo ei
edes ymmärrä, mitä kaikkea sukupuolidysforialla tarkoitetaan: Myös
muunsukupuolisilla voi sellainen olla. Tästä hän sitten johtaa ajatuksen, että
kapina perinteistä sukupuolijärjestelmää vastaan saa nuoret syöksymään
tuhoamaan koko sukupuolijärjestelmän. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Häneltä jää kuitenkin ymmärtämättä, että queer tässä muodossaan on
kapina sen puolesta, että kaikki saavat oikeutuksen omalle
sukupuoli-identiteetilleen, ei siis kaikkien muiden tuhoamista. Queer ei myöskään
ole omiaan houkuttelemaan cis-nuoria lääketieteelliseen transprosessiin, eikä
sellainen edes onnistuisi diagnostiikan asettaessa sille rajansa. Nykyinen
juridinen sukupuolijärjestelmä ei myöskään houkuta suuresti sukupuolikapinallisia
vaihtamaan sitä toisesta binääristä versiosta toiseen.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sukupuolikapinallisuutta on ollut olemassa aiemminkin. Albaniassa
elää edelleen ikivanha traditio, jossa naisoletetut, jotka eivät halua alistua
naiselle siellä asetettuun ahtaaseen rooliin, voivat tehdä yhteisön johdon kanssa
sopimuksen, vapautuakseen naisen roolin rajoitteista, kunhan samalla lupaavat
pidättäytyä lasten hankkimisesta. Tällaiseen omaa elämäänsä elävään, ”<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63904744" target="_blank">Sworn Virgins</a>” -nimellä kutsuttuun joukkoon kuuluu ihmisiä, joita voitaisiin
meikäläisessä kulttuurissa kutsua transmiehiksi, lesboiksi ja naisen rooliin
kerrassaan kyllästyneiksi sukupuolikapinallisiksi.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Sitten Hamilon tekstissä seuraakin tyrmistyttävä osio: On
pyrittävä transsukupuolisuuden ennaltaehkäisyyn!</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Siihen projektiin käydään vanhojen väittämien voimin:
Transihmisillä on muita enemmän mielenterveysongelmia, itsemurha-alttiudesta ei
ole luotettavaa tietoa, ja se on muuta väestöä korkeammalla transition
jälkeenkin. Transition hyötyjä ei tämän perusteella tunnettaisi.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Tämä kaikki on silkkaa roskaa. Transprosessin hyödyistä tiedetään
varsin <a href="https://www.academia.edu/29737088/Paul_McHugh_Is_Wrong_Transitioning_Is_Effective" target="_blank">vakuuttavasti</a>, ja vanhat tutkimukset, joiden mukaan itsemurha-alttius
ei vähenisi, perustuvat sellaisten aikojen tarkasteluun, jolloin
sosiaalinen tuki oli olematonta ja syrjintä nykyistä rankempaa.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Itsemurhariski ei toki kokonaan katoa, koska kaikki sosiaaliset
ongelmat, kuten syrjiminen, eivät välttämättä katoa. Elämänlaadun on <a href="https://www.duodecimlehti.fi/duo12111" target="_blank">huomattu paranevan </a>keskimäärin ja monet jopa kokevat transition jälkeen ristiriitaa vain
saman verran kuin muu väestö. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Hamilo lähtee myös tohtoroimaan transihmisiä vastustamalla tulkintaa
väärään kehoon syntymisestä, ja sen sijasta hyväksymällä feminiininen poika ja
maskuliininen tyttö sellaisenaan. Tässä hän osoittaa jälleen täydellisen
ymmärtämättömyytensä debatoimastaan asiasta: Tuo kaikki on mukana
sukupuolitietoisen kasvatuksen perusteissa, mutta on ihan eri asia, jos lapsi
epätyypillisen luonteenpiirteensä lisäksi selkeästi ilmaisee olevansa toista
sukupuolta, mitä kätilö on hänelle merkinnyt.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Sukupuolidysforiaan Hamilo tarjoilee psykoterapiaa ja psykiatrian
portinvartiointia ennen peruuttamattomia transhoitoja. Hän myös syyttää
transliikettä affirmatiivisten hoitojen priorisoinnista ja muiden hoitolinjojen
haukkumisesta eheytykseksi.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Kaikki tämä kertoo jälleen, että hän ei edes ymmärrä, mistä puhuu.
Niille, joille kehon transitio ei ole mahdollista, tai sen järjestäminen
pitkittyy, on olemassa ahdistusta lievittävää hoitoa. Ei ole kuitenkaan
eettisesti kestävää perustetta korvata kehon transitio silloin, kun sen avulla
odotettavissa olevat tulokset ovat potilaan tilaa olennaisesti parantavia.
Hamilo jopa intoutuu väittämään, että “useimmista lapsuudessa
sukupuolidysforiaa oirehtineista lapsistahan tulee ilman transsukupuolisuuden
affirmaatiota homoseksuaaleja”. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Hamilon siteeraama Sohin ja Shrierin ehdotus hoidoiksi muistuttaa
todella eheytyspuoskarointia, jossa koko identiteetti yritetään muuttaa.
Tällainen hoitolinja on todettu jo vuosikymmeniä sitten tehottomaksi ja
eettisesti kestämättömäksi.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Mitä tulee varsinaisiin transhoitoihin, niitä ei tulla
edelleenkään antamaan potilaan mielihalun mukaan. Tästä Hamilo väittää totuuden
vastaisesti, että transjärjestöt olisivat vaatimassa itsemäärittelyyn
perustuvaa hoitojen valintamyymälää - Suomessa ei tällaista keskustelua
ainakaan käydä. ICD-11 muuttaa hoidot ja diagnoosit sukupuoliristiriitaan
liittyviksi, ja tällöin arvioidaan tarkasti, tulisiko potilas hyötymään
hoidoista vai ei. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Se taas on eri asia kuin se, onko ihmisellä oikeus määritellä oma
sukupuoli-identiteetti. Vanhan hoitojärjestelmän puitteissa eräs johtava
transtutkimuksia tehnyt psykiatri totesikin, että paras tapa selvittää ihmisen
sukupuoli on kysyä asiaa häneltä itseltään.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Artikkelissa esitetyille käsityksille haetaan tukea lääkärin
eettisestä ohjeesta, jonka mukaan on parempi olla tekemättä mitään, jos hoidon
vaikuttavuudesta ei ole näyttöä. Tutkimuskirjallisuus osoittaa kuitenkin oikein
diagnosoidun ja toteutetun hoidon hyödyt kiistattomasti, niidenhän varaan
hoitosuosituksetkin on tehty.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Kaikissa hoidoissa tapahtuu joskus virheitä, mutta transhoitoihin
liittyvä hoitotyytyväisyys on yleisesti korkeaa luokkaa. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Artikkeli käsittelee myös juridisen sukupuolen
itsemääräämisoikeutta. Siinä Hamilo nostaa tämän rinnalle toisten ihmisten
oikeuden määritellä yksilö omien kriteeriensä, käytännössä siis ulkonäön
perusteella. “Analogiana” hän esittää myös latteuden iän
itsemäärittelyoikeudesta sen mukanaan tuomine juridisine oikeuksineen.
Analogia ontuu pahemman kerran: Ikä- tai vaikkapa kehonkuvan harha ovat
mielenterveyden häiriöitä, sukupuolikokemus taas on kullakin ihmisellä olennaisella
tavalla jo valmiiksi olemassa. Milloin Hamilo päätti alkaa pojaksi…?
Tämänhetkisessä transtutkimusprosessissa myös nimenomaan pois suljetaan
mielenterveyden häiriöt sukupuoliristiriidan aiheuttajana.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Tämän kaiken jälkeen Hamilo huomauttaa hieman yllättävästikin,
että aikuisten juridinen itsemääräämisoikeus ei häntä kummemmin
huolestuta. Hän palaa kuitenkin nuoriin, ja esittää nuorten
sukupuolikokemuksen sosiaalisen tukemisen olevan vahingollista. Tässä hän
viitta Riittakerttu Kaltialan lausuntoon, jonka mukaan “valtaosa nuorten
sukupuoliahdistuksesta johtuu nykyisestä mielenterveyden kriisistä ja siitä,
että sukupuoli-identiteetti on virallisessa ja sosiaalisessa mediassa nuorille
vahvasti tarjolla selityksenä lukuisiin ongelmiin ja reittinä ulos
kasvukivuista ja vakavammista vaikeuksista”.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Tätä lausumaa eivät kaikki muut tutkijat allekirjoita. On olemassa <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/population-care/transgender-kids-gender-affirming-names-can-be-lifesaving" target="_blank">tutkimuksia</a>, jotka kertovat esimerkiksi koetun sukupuolen mukaisen nimen käytön
tukevan merkittävästi lapsen elämänhallintaa. Kyse on nimenomaan sosiaalisen
sukupuolen vahvistamisesta, jota myös kokemuksen mukainen juridinen sukupuoli
tukisi.</span><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-part-one/" style="font-size: 11pt;" target="_blank">Tutkimukset</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> osoittavat myös, että nuorten muu kipuilu ja
transkokemus eivät ole sama asia.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hamilo päättää tekstinsä paradoksiin, jonka mukaan
“edistyksellisen lain kumoaminen olisikin tutkimuksen valossa edistyksellistä”.
Jos tutkimus ja sellaiseksi naamioitu asenteellinen paatos on
taantumuksellista, eivät sen ohjeiden mukaiset toimetkaan muutu edistyksellisiksi.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-87297323306785844312021-12-21T13:25:00.022+02:002021-12-27T11:39:46.119+02:00Retaired… and still busy<p> It's been a
while since I last wrote a blog here. During the time I’ve had some major
changes in my life. The biggest of them has been my retirement.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdWzgMvHMnCxGoa67fwXkBEi_W-73CgXBMkSjhocdHnWprFh8s0WQxQjKHW4RHNQYwYn-y8Iqwzrka0vWVjpd4hxP0QWSzkaByoi8SENpALcn4CbvmfQn0-zmkt4MEwh7cUJNWv4C5ejROhVYqgKsT_Z4trEIkbeeHzDcl7q433pCnqRzNq_WPqQvHqw=s4608" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdWzgMvHMnCxGoa67fwXkBEi_W-73CgXBMkSjhocdHnWprFh8s0WQxQjKHW4RHNQYwYn-y8Iqwzrka0vWVjpd4hxP0QWSzkaByoi8SENpALcn4CbvmfQn0-zmkt4MEwh7cUJNWv4C5ejROhVYqgKsT_Z4trEIkbeeHzDcl7q433pCnqRzNq_WPqQvHqw=w497-h373" width="497" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Sini took me to the spa as a first action as a retired citizen</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ve heard
a saying there are three phases in being retired: Go go, Slow go and No go. Just now I live the first phase for sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I still
give some lectures in Metropolia University of Applied Sciences as an emerita
senior lecturer. The totally new thing for me was when I started my entrepreneur
career. I didn’t know a thing about the details in being an entrepreneur so it
took some time to make all the arrangements. Everything didn’t go right, for
example I paid estimated VAT beforehand instead of doing it afterwards.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6jvyfzc7Xmki2ZoefVCSjjyEGF0O2T98Okhvorkxg-Izqzs6nhzMj_eCp6yhHwJYSA8wt1HrJZKWcw6-WKCvAteO8o-YJuyiGmGQfiBUxWTy7u-qG_jABDb8lRgvj3-OOAcwlJgBNflsJVjFHX0fSyOGTHPkNQ4flFP290zcZ1PGZI--7Lq8sh71gKQ=s4413" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3579" data-original-width="4413" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6jvyfzc7Xmki2ZoefVCSjjyEGF0O2T98Okhvorkxg-Izqzs6nhzMj_eCp6yhHwJYSA8wt1HrJZKWcw6-WKCvAteO8o-YJuyiGmGQfiBUxWTy7u-qG_jABDb8lRgvj3-OOAcwlJgBNflsJVjFHX0fSyOGTHPkNQ4flFP290zcZ1PGZI--7Lq8sh71gKQ=w640-h520" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lecturing at Metropolia, this time also live.</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anyway, now
I have a company named Havulintu (a conifer bird, meaning a capercaillie
(metso)). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKmulfxNy2qwUj8XcT-Cl58LEd5jLio_OR2FDm8aJL9mhqKPQK0UmYDOT_fgLyY0JpKQnZvZMpRAtFsSKlla2aoSWZm3QqVWn3wQVGCil_Vns1CFWHC6e3NPUMIZQHynpq5bdtrtK2qnF_z_vgvJJVxMbKkfGjLW7dxQjkZUcOhz4Ce1ny403OmhvI5A=s810" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="810" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKmulfxNy2qwUj8XcT-Cl58LEd5jLio_OR2FDm8aJL9mhqKPQK0UmYDOT_fgLyY0JpKQnZvZMpRAtFsSKlla2aoSWZm3QqVWn3wQVGCil_Vns1CFWHC6e3NPUMIZQHynpq5bdtrtK2qnF_z_vgvJJVxMbKkfGjLW7dxQjkZUcOhz4Ce1ny403OmhvI5A=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />The main business is education on equality of LGBTIQ+-people in
workplaces. I’ve already given a lot of equality training based on my own
experiences and what I’ve learned from my analyses on the inquiries I’ve made.
Now I had to make material to cover a wider spectrum of aspects: What is
discrimination and how does it affect, what is inclusion and why should it be
preferred, what are the means for promoting it etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And to be a
credible entrepreneur I also had to build up <a href="https://anukatariina2.wixsite.com/website-2" target="_blank">websites</a>. I also joined <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/anukatariina-saloheimo-she-her-40776665/" target="_blank">Linkedin</a>
and started to seek for contacts. It seemed to be easy now there are already more
than 3500 contacts, many of them showing both interest and support. The need of
such training is evident, for example very many companies lack a gender
diversity perspective in the equality plan although it should be included by
the law. However the number of commissions has been quite moderate. It seems
especially the companies that would need the knowledge the most are the least
interested in the subject.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another
major task has been a <a href="https://07e281e0-6f83-4c90-8251-7d7054ba5bc3.filesusr.com/ugd/ee66a1_9cba7ebb571045d6b1e768c2e16a7a89.pdf" target="_blank">survey analysis on discrimination of gender minorities inwork places</a>. The survey had been carried out in fall 2020 and I analyzed the
results during the year 2021. A similar survey has been carried out in 2016 and
the Finnish trans organizations wanted to find out whether there has been any
improvement in the situation. The answer is yes, the situation is somewhat
better. This doesn’t mean the situation is satisfactory: Although in many
workplaces being a trans or intersex person is not a big deal any more, there
is still very severe discrimination in other workplaces.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2CzEPKZNa4eLq55BxkAvfMtZiJwEyWECCqKceotczNzAmMfiEGPX7caGC1jKuHQ75IcBuKqLizK1f-rNUBOwEos0jzRLaH1AX8RUlfYOv2jLkYJSKOaS0GNpmRU-KektmuZb9ZWpSIcQJnULTMmNV-ycTrPm5AuqpeE5-EibJqz5T2u9F-eeAqgwFiA=s1250" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1149" data-original-width="1250" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2CzEPKZNa4eLq55BxkAvfMtZiJwEyWECCqKceotczNzAmMfiEGPX7caGC1jKuHQ75IcBuKqLizK1f-rNUBOwEos0jzRLaH1AX8RUlfYOv2jLkYJSKOaS0GNpmRU-KektmuZb9ZWpSIcQJnULTMmNV-ycTrPm5AuqpeE5-EibJqz5T2u9F-eeAqgwFiA=w640-h588" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The third
major task this year has been the <a href="https://07e281e0-6f83-4c90-8251-7d7054ba5bc3.filesusr.com/ugd/ee66a1_41837f73cae648aab471d0b56e98b034.pdf">history book of the 25 years old DreamwearClub DwC ry organization</a>. To accomplish it I read all the old member magazines
and organization documents and made quite a lot interviews - I’ve been a member
and active follower only the last twelve years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">During
these years DwC has developed from a minor peer to peer organization to an esteemed
national influencer. In fact the development was quite rapid, the position of a
national political influencer was taken already in late nineties. Since then
DwC has been very active in depathologization of transvestites and in including
gender expression as a discrimination criteria in equality legislation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was
quite a lot work in finding persons who are in historical pictures: I didn’t
want to use pictures of the people who are afraid of being “outed” because of
the pictures. To get the layout fancier I used a professional editor to finish
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdIgYKdMXGlH13UaISQ1owugXZ9jPm8DuaPtsDwS5_6v40YK02JbRLRL_60GJwR9y1k3SiNAPezQxsfysC1pFqJ5LC4i2KJI3ysHB8DGTsq7spEICOeQ-cmy9AO_HNBV5s1LcASAyl7E6WtFkuN1CrO99OQi5iXKU31j5eztGKNS7xeDwWEgP97yrPEA=s1504" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1007" data-original-width="1504" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdIgYKdMXGlH13UaISQ1owugXZ9jPm8DuaPtsDwS5_6v40YK02JbRLRL_60GJwR9y1k3SiNAPezQxsfysC1pFqJ5LC4i2KJI3ysHB8DGTsq7spEICOeQ-cmy9AO_HNBV5s1LcASAyl7E6WtFkuN1CrO99OQi5iXKU31j5eztGKNS7xeDwWEgP97yrPEA=w640-h429" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pictures from the old days. Photos; Anne and Tiga</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The fourth
major task was coordinating TransHelsinki 2020 and 2021 happenings. Last year
we had to make very rapid swifts to a mode to another: Covid situation got
worse just in November 2020 and intended Transgender Day Of Remembrance TDOR
happening and community seminar had to be changed to virtual mode in very short
time. Luckily we had persons who could react fast enough and both events could
be carried out. In TransHelsinki 2021 we prepared to the similar situation but
this time the covid situation allowed us to organize streamed live events. We
also had live evening event which turned out to be very important. People
really wanted to meet each other after so a long period of isolation. Year 2020
we had a Habbo Hotel evening event and it was not a big success.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEht6Q9Zz2hnGrRrzMkbK22jTf_6UtfdcP5bELcH2hgtN9amk6oAiY5hKxnM4g3xkakNslPTZK7ufORrbGfiVO06a3RtHoaSCR_OuVUUmEmTCPHAvvnVD3eVKDQ8ktm0UHZFuIdOzQVb0j0A-Q0xCx9Em2V4oYiad9W-KRyvCOkSNeKinX8piWlXpIAe4w=s2000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEht6Q9Zz2hnGrRrzMkbK22jTf_6UtfdcP5bELcH2hgtN9amk6oAiY5hKxnM4g3xkakNslPTZK7ufORrbGfiVO06a3RtHoaSCR_OuVUUmEmTCPHAvvnVD3eVKDQ8ktm0UHZFuIdOzQVb0j0A-Q0xCx9Em2V4oYiad9W-KRyvCOkSNeKinX8piWlXpIAe4w=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the Trans Community Seminar</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My tasks
were combined when I organized a publishing event for the work place survey.
The event included a panel discussion on the subject and I managed to get a
member of employers, trade union, trans person and the Finnish Equality
Ombudsman. The Ombudsman stressed the importance of the survey because his
office doesn’t have instruments to get similar information. Al the members of
the panel agreed there must be a lot of education made in all levels of work
organizations - the activity I’ve already started. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9JiZ0GARP0EX768eQ8awvwepRFsQdzJb7gxLeUaFXonN3niMrACiYEnA4M1fVRLyO79oSk3B2lvG55rCdS--1iLo-EhLfdNoF9KSCPb1QLFXC6D-ayfjD8727ruA9UoEJjNXt0KZcgBQGO-hqQ8E5njBAYs924R2s59bJCWjsyjP7SnH96oVdRnZIbw=s3676" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2434" data-original-width="3676" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9JiZ0GARP0EX768eQ8awvwepRFsQdzJb7gxLeUaFXonN3niMrACiYEnA4M1fVRLyO79oSk3B2lvG55rCdS--1iLo-EhLfdNoF9KSCPb1QLFXC6D-ayfjD8727ruA9UoEJjNXt0KZcgBQGO-hqQ8E5njBAYs924R2s59bJCWjsyjP7SnH96oVdRnZIbw=w640-h424" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Panel after publication: Victor Brück /Nordea Bank, Susanna Viljanmaa(Transfeminiinit ry, me, Lotta Savinko/AKAVA, Jukka Maarianvaara/ Equality Ombudsman</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Publicity
has been one of the features of my last year. I have given some interviews
after the 2016 survey and probably because of it my name has been known among
the press. The first bigger hit was November 2020 when I was interviewed on
MeNaiset, one of the biggest women’s magazine in Finland. The article was also
published on a tabloid’s <a href="https://www.is.fi/menaiset/ihmiset-ja-suhteet/art-2000007673446.html" target="_blank">website</a> with millions of readers. The interview was followed by another by
Finnish teacher organization magazine <a href="https://www.opettaja.fi/tyossa/syrjintasarjassa-aiheena-sukupuolten-yhdenvertaisuus-tasa-arvo-pois-mappi-osta/" target="_blank">Opettaja</a> on June 2020. In both articles I had an
opportunity to tell about my own experiences in the work environment and about
the problems and the solutions in public level. After publication of the survey
the <a href="https://www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/transhelsinki-2021-selvityksen-mukaan-sukupuolivahemmistojen-syrjinta-tyoelamassa-yleista?publisherId=69817783&releaseId=69923840" target="_blank">press releases </a>was published in numerous newspapers and I was interviewed on
the Finnish National radio (Yle) <a href="https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12187284" target="_blank">news</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_1NFXh2HLy7cgNyeE0FGQUlT9MSsqk_JLzvexAhgS9yXAavHJhS3eQOxJy0QXgwPwMf8XJHbZSMnC0OL-fQlImX9lnUpr5Kc_DhnAC05C_FEHthvwarceaSnWM6pNpcK8abTt4EHFk7VLceOYoJNFIBXIFFB0lXz8LZIRVBSaLcUvd_M1f3RVD7ifZw=s5760" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="5760" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_1NFXh2HLy7cgNyeE0FGQUlT9MSsqk_JLzvexAhgS9yXAavHJhS3eQOxJy0QXgwPwMf8XJHbZSMnC0OL-fQlImX9lnUpr5Kc_DhnAC05C_FEHthvwarceaSnWM6pNpcK8abTt4EHFk7VLceOYoJNFIBXIFFB0lXz8LZIRVBSaLcUvd_M1f3RVD7ifZw=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture on Opettaja-magazine. Photo: Leena Koskela</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Publicity
also has its funny face... Dreamwear Club wanted to use Helsinki Pride website
to advertise its event during the Helsinki Pride 2021 week. To do that includes
a minor transaction, but in this case we got an offer to give a face to promote
Pride themes. I thought this is not a big deal and agreed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The project
turned out to be in two phases. The first one was a video interview on how I
have experienced my LGBTIQ+ history. The second one was a photo session by a
famous photographer Meeri Koutaniemi. I was one of the four persons who gave
their faces to the campaign. For the first time in my life<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a personal professional stylist to take
care anything I needed during the photo session.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxZwhW6wkKUrt5zDkt32GzbPbxKR4jqiixrRU8TSF31EJGbP6N3bCMLqETSTnKEGinNUgTtEFL25vBM4wESdYVeNA8vq1CWe2vxOJEeq0SOtb_6LBLq-2PCVnkit0HACbHvz497IeU1aAEELlu_jnf-H1gUef8h_3qMq6b-V9LGu5dgIVDe41YJtDP5Q=s5184" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxZwhW6wkKUrt5zDkt32GzbPbxKR4jqiixrRU8TSF31EJGbP6N3bCMLqETSTnKEGinNUgTtEFL25vBM4wESdYVeNA8vq1CWe2vxOJEeq0SOtb_6LBLq-2PCVnkit0HACbHvz497IeU1aAEELlu_jnf-H1gUef8h_3qMq6b-V9LGu5dgIVDe41YJtDP5Q=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pink video session</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Late June the result was seen in Helsinki region: Pictures of my face was seen along the streets of Helsinki City and the five stairs version was seen to everyone who entered Helsinki by train. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-BDpoanifc" target="_blank">video interview</a> was seen very frequently on Helsinki Pride website and once also on Yle TV broadcasting.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEr-gLRMUohajdxtlbc7jA25aLLDhk8Wb-uPC57L6V0_gFoZMMzqfVDzHgM7JONczVsCuUqXmhaqAu5Gaxb6Q15GrNIpX0mRVTh658u_FYh_ffYr07EtohzZaDFh6HB9AR33vNUlTLbHhoW6UPBkeav_iNM0tC-__UO3xNQGLy1bhToc-UZLPqIsZHhg=s2511" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2511" data-original-width="1858" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEr-gLRMUohajdxtlbc7jA25aLLDhk8Wb-uPC57L6V0_gFoZMMzqfVDzHgM7JONczVsCuUqXmhaqAu5Gaxb6Q15GrNIpX0mRVTh658u_FYh_ffYr07EtohzZaDFh6HB9AR33vNUlTLbHhoW6UPBkeav_iNM0tC-__UO3xNQGLy1bhToc-UZLPqIsZHhg=w296-h400" width="296" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mannerheimintie in June 2021 </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But that
was not the all I did with Helsinki Pride organization: I got an annual “<a href="https://pride.fi/pride-media/ylpeys-muuttaa-maailmaa-tunnustuspalkinnot-2021/" target="_blank">Pridechanges the World” -award</a>. The other entity getting the award was the City of
Helsinki. The reasons to give me the award were a bit confusing: The merits
that were mentioned were partly from the period other Dreamwear Club activists
were responsible of them. So the award was for Dreamwear Club as well. The
ceremony was also seen on Yle broadcasting. To celebrate the award me and Sini
got a hotel night in Helsinki City.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiHDLYIyV13Zq9RUaaNEg0ch6FHzoQzK0408O_w1vmxL-3tATe6SH2m5cM0OjN2KxNSbi0h7BkXZNnKU5Tn_JERxu3muvwjVgzrkjBpMF1_vt0ymhjglC1w5vwdublMKnu3VYSuJRJYU5OCQSgnr-xXFWBW3wfNZRSCXntFRiAruLj5igkbHOnfWSPZw=s960" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiHDLYIyV13Zq9RUaaNEg0ch6FHzoQzK0408O_w1vmxL-3tATe6SH2m5cM0OjN2KxNSbi0h7BkXZNnKU5Tn_JERxu3muvwjVgzrkjBpMF1_vt0ymhjglC1w5vwdublMKnu3VYSuJRJYU5OCQSgnr-xXFWBW3wfNZRSCXntFRiAruLj5igkbHOnfWSPZw=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The award ceremony. Photo: Helsinki Pride </td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8k4HS6lCzPI8I49lV_f2dfSxJig6sBSApy6Cx3JXbBp07a7nvr_fVTNdzp-v4T4tysz3Qn7r8AoB0F5Cjk_ngMsqk0dY-cSsG6qAZJypVIJRh6QB2P2whYCP14eYLpokOfDIbioK_JZVfxoOcp47KsmTejn-_cKUnDYDmr6K0lE44A4ifloD9lk5Zbw=s3376" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2360" data-original-width="3376" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8k4HS6lCzPI8I49lV_f2dfSxJig6sBSApy6Cx3JXbBp07a7nvr_fVTNdzp-v4T4tysz3Qn7r8AoB0F5Cjk_ngMsqk0dY-cSsG6qAZJypVIJRh6QB2P2whYCP14eYLpokOfDIbioK_JZVfxoOcp47KsmTejn-_cKUnDYDmr6K0lE44A4ifloD9lk5Zbw=w400-h280" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swimming above the roofs of Helsinki</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It seems
some have talked about me in Helsinki Pride organization because this was not
the end of the story. In September I was asked to give equality education under
the Helsinki Pride education organization and I replied why not. So far I’ve
trained some big organizations that are also partners of Helsinki Pride. There
have been “basic training” and more specific to supervisors and managers. Next
year I will continue with this, some even in English. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I hope the
year 2022 will not be as busy as the year 2021 was. Yes yes, it’s up to me...! To
make sure it will happen I’ve made clear I will not make any major surveys, I
will end my career as the head of the Dreamwear Club, I will not coordinate
TransHelsinki, no history books either...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-90860292472334759542020-09-23T11:11:00.010+03:002021-12-21T14:30:36.856+02:00All About The Theater Fuzz, Lost In Translation<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G79rHyV-8-A/X2sAh2s8DvI/AAAAAAAAHP4/CjUpZ0I6RxkFbUeKSvJpz8kY5Z93HsI0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSC_2987.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G79rHyV-8-A/X2sAh2s8DvI/AAAAAAAAHP4/CjUpZ0I6RxkFbUeKSvJpz8kY5Z93HsI0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSC_2987.JPG" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
theatrical version of Pedro Almodovar’s film “All About My Mother” performed
by the Finnish National Theater has raised a hot debate on its casting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The basic
problem is that the tradition of female characters played by male actors has a heavy
burden of contempt and ridicule because they present, on the one hand, the
ridiculousness of a woman and, on the other, the repeated idea that a man playing
a woman is a ridiculous matter in itself. So if a man plays a transgender woman
role, this background hurts real transgender women who feel that this would
perpetuate their image as men disguised as women and at the same time also
ridiculed according to the old tradition. The fact that the character Agrado is
quite fast-paced in her twists and turns does not make it any easier. There was
also criticism that a transgender woman role should have been played by a trans woman because they otherwise have a limited number of job opportunities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On the
other hand, performance choices have been defended in the debate in the name of
artistic freedom and the fact that theater has a long tradition of men playing
female roles and women playing male roles. Another view has also been raised among actor
circles that an actor must be able to present any character regardless of who
he or she is.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_GoBack"></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Another key problem that is the starting point
for the mess is the definitions of a trans feminine persons in Spain, which do
not always go hand in hand with Finnish thinking. In addition to how people
define their own identity, the way they are perceived there does not necessarily
go hand in hand. </span>The
director and the actor still make their own interpretations of this. The Finnish viewer's interpretation of what is seen is another
separate level, which varies according to what he or she knows about the matter
in general and the performance in particular..</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In Spain of nineteen nineties trans
women, like Finland, were not in a care process supported by society, so they had to
pay for it themselves. Funding was quite often done through prostitution. In it,
on the other hand, because of the clientele, the market power is an irreparable
genitals, and if that financing process does not proceed as expected, it may
remain at this stage for a long time. Nor do the needs required in the market
attract the use of hormones that would be easy to use per se. Almodovar’s film
Agrado is probably a transgender woman who is in just that situation. On the
other hand, transvestites and drag queens also offered their services in the same
market, to whom the permanent body modification is not necessarily even the
goal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
original film was made in the 1990s, when the world was very different than it
is today. In its production, the National Theater uses the English version of Samuel
Adamson, presented in 2007, in which Agrado is written as a transvestite. The
National Theater also depicts the character as a transvestite accordingly.
However, some pre-published National Theater brochures have spoken of Agrado as
a transgender woman. The statement of the director of the theater, which also
talked about a transgender woman, did not clarify the matter at all. In an
article in Helsingin Sanomat, Janne Reinikainen, who was momentarily excluded
from the role of Agrado, tried to correct the misunderstanding. The matter went
in an even more awkward direction here, when Reinikainen did not master the
concepts he used in his well-meaning text and caused more resentment. This
contradiction between communication and the image of those who saw the film has
been the root of the uproar this time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the
heart of all this is a chain of misunderstandings resembling a broken phone.
Samuel Adamson seems to have translated the Spanish word travesti directly into
the word transvestite. To some extent, however, the word travesti, which is
also used as a barking word, has a much broader meaning than the transvestite/crossdresser used in Finland, and in practice it can mean a wide range from transvestites to
trans women as the words are understood in Finland. In the text, Agrado’s
character is about the same as in Almodovar’s film. </span>In 2007,
such confusion of concepts could go unnoticed, but today the value and message
problems it produces have become heavily at the center of the debate.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> At the end of the blog is a
table where I try to compare Agrado to traditional transvestites and trans
women.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This
situation, on the other hand, was further complicated by the fact that the text
rights owner emphasized that the role was written as a transvestite and is
therefore also a male role. In the 2007 production, this was also the case. So for
the National Theater the room for modifications was small and full of built-in
contradiction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had an opportunity to tell the production
team for gender diversity spectrum with other representatives of Seta
organization. At the time, we said that in Spain, the concepts are not the same
as ours and how there are people there for whom we have no concept in Finnish
language. We also told you that the transgender role played by the man will
surely arouse a great halo. We were told that the character in this version is
a transvestite, which sounded somewhat strange, but certainly met the criteria
of political correctness. We did not see the text itself at that time. We were
further told that they had tried to get the transgender person into the role
without success. There are a small number of actors with trans backgrounds in
Finland, but it is not easy to find +/- 40 years old transgender actors who
would master such a demanding and cohesive role.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The heated
debate we predicted, described above, had already begun well before the
premiere. This media circus created terrible pressure to the production group
of the National Theater: How to preserve a long-prepared production and, on the
other hand, do it politically correctly. The solution was to modify Agrado’s character
towards a clear transvestite/crossdresser, for example, by replacing his surgical implants
with external breastsforms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In his
distress, the working group asked me and a few other trans people to evaluate
the whole for a preliminary presentation. When I saw and heard it, I was
somewhat shocked: The character had, of course, been externally modified into a
transvestite, but many key passages in the text still referred to a
manifestation of travesti identity that did not correspond to our crossdressers.
Thus, a broken telephone had further distorted the situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Janne
Reinikainen does create an interesting character that opens up new perspectives
on the dimensions of masculinity. Reinikainen's Agrado also does not reinforce
stereotypes that a man when imitating a woman has somehow an element begging
for ridicule. The central adult roles in the work are all somehow amusing and
also have some dark sides. Agrado character is amusing, but does it primarily
on her own. Instead of being ridiculous, he is portrayed as powerful and
transformative - Almodovar’s trans characters have this function more generally.
The big problem, however, is that twisting Agrado into a familiar crossdresser essentially eats up the artistic-dramaturgical impact of the work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From the
performance as a whole, it can be said that its core message, the praise of
communion and friendship, remained a bit sloppy. It could be due to the
horrible pressure from the public that affected the actors ’performance. On the
other hand, the English implementation of 2007 has also received similar
criticism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If we
summed up the debate so far, there are a few points:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- Most of
the criticism comes from the image that its performers have of the film or the
first brochures of the National Theater, not of the performance itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- The
demand that a cis man could not act as a transfeminine role is partly
well-founded, but somewhat straightforward as a categorical and may neglect the
context of implementation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- The
confusion of the National Theater was understandable: the director apparently
interpreted Agrado’s text in a multidimensional way as a transfeminine
character, and the actor understood the transvestite as we usually understand
it. However, such confusion should have been understood to be clarified with a
help from the experts and ethical and artistic decisions made logically on that
basis. If the character had been created to be a transgender, a cis-woman would
have been a natural option in the absence of a trans actress. If, on the other
hand, the character had been constructed as a transvestite/crossdresser understood in
Finland, the text would still have had to be significantly modified, in which
case certain key dramatic culminations of it would have had to be removed or
replaced by others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- Despite
the interludes, the final outcome of the production was ethically sustainable,
but dramaturgically very problematic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The text
was written a week after the preview I saw, and I don’t know if the
presentation has been heavily modified yet from what I saw.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Chart:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Typical features of transvestite and transwoman in relation to the Agrado
character in the film and Adamson's theatre version
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Internal body modification with hormones</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 73.0pt;" width="170">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Very rare</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 68.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="159">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Apparently not</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 95.0pt;" width="222">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Common</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<tr style="height: 29.15pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 129.0pt;" width="301">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Internal body modification with silicon</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 73.0pt;" width="170">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Very rare</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 68.0pt;" width="159">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Apparently yes </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 95.0pt;" width="222">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When necessary</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 129.0pt;" width="301">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Internal body modification surgically</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 73.0pt;" width="170">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Very rare</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 68.0pt;" width="159">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Apparently yes</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 95.0pt;" width="222">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Common</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 129.0pt;" width="301">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Genital modification surgically</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 73.0pt;" width="170">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Very rare</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 68.0pt;" width="159">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Nope</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 95.0pt;" width="222">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Common</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 129.0pt;" width="301">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">External body modification</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 73.0pt;" width="170">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Typical</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 68.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="159">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Apparently not</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 95.0pt;" width="222">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Only if nothing else is available</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.6pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 129.0pt;" width="301">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Masculine virility</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.6pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 73.0pt;" width="170">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Typical</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.6pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 68.0pt;" width="159">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Maybe</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.6pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 95.0pt;" width="222">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Usually not</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<tr style="height: 29.15pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 129.0pt;" width="301">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Regards herself being a woman</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 73.0pt;" width="170">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Possible but rare</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 68.0pt;" width="159">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Apparently not</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 95.0pt;" width="222">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Typical</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<tr style="height: 29.15pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 129.0pt;" width="301">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wants to be a woman</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 73.0pt;" width="170">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Typical</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 68.0pt;" width="159">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yes</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 95.0pt;" width="222">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Nope, because she is a woman</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<tr style="height: 29.15pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 129.0pt;" width="301">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lives as a woman </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">24/7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 73.0pt;" width="170">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Possible but rare</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 68.0pt;" width="159">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yes</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt; width: 95.0pt;" width="222">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Typical whenever possible</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Kansallisteatterin esittämästä teatterisovituksesta Pedro Almodovarin elokuvasta ”Kaikki
äidistäni” on noussut kohu, joka liittyy sen roolitukseen.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Perusongelma on,
että miehen esittämien naishahmojen perinteellä on raskas vähättelyn ja pilkan painolasti,
koska niillä on esitetty toisaalta naisen naurettavuutta ja toisaalta toistettu
ajatusta, että mies esittämässä naista on sinänsä naurunalainen asia. Jos mies
siis esittää transsukupuolista naista, tämä tausta satuttaa oikeita transnaisia,
jotka kokevat, että tämä ylläpitäisi heistä kuvaa miehinä naisiksi naamioituina
ja samalla myös vanhan tradition mukaisesti naurunalaisiksi. Asiaa ei helpota
se, että roolihahmo Agrado on aika vauhdikas käänteissään. <o:p></o:p></span>Kritiikissä oli mukana myös se, että osaan olisi pitänyt kiinnittää transnainen, koska heillä on muutenkin rajallinen määrä työtilaisuuksia. </div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Toisaalta esityksen
valintoja on puolustettu keskustelussa taiteen vapauden nimissä ja sillä, että
teatterissa on pitkä traditio sille, että miehet esittävät naisia ja naiset
miehiä. Näyttelijäpiireistä on nostettu esiin näkemys, että näyttelijän on
osattava esittää mitä tahansa hahmoa riippumatta siitä, mitä hän itse on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Toinen keskeinen ja
sotkun alkusysäyksenä oleva ongelma on transihmisten määritelmät Espanjassa, jotka
eivät mene aina yksiin suomalaisen ajattelutavan kanssa. Sen lisäksi, miten ihmiset
itse identiteettinsä määrittävät, myös se, miten heidät siellä hahmotetaan, ei mene sen kanssa välttämättä yksiin Miten heitä kuvataan ja sen perusteella hankilöhahmo rakennetaan, siitä on tässä tapauksessa Almodovarin ja kahden kääntäjän tulkinnat. Oman tulkintansa tästä tekevät vielä ohjaaja ja näyttelijä. Suomalaisen katsojan tulkinta näkemästään on vielä yksi erillinen taso, joka vaihtelee sen mukaan, mitä hän tietää asiasta yleensä ja esityksestä erityisesti.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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transnaiset eivät ole Suomen tapaan yhteiskunnan turvaamassa hoitoprosessissa,
vaan he joutuvat sen kustantamaan itse. Rahoitus tapahtuu aika usein
prostituution kautta. Siinä taas asiakaskunnan takia markkinavaltti on
korjaamaton alapää, ja jos se rahoitusprosessi ei etene odotetusti, se voi
jäädä pitkäksi aikaa tähän vaiheeseen. Myöskään markkinoilla vaadittavat avut
eivät houkuttele hormonien käyttöön, joita sinänsä olisi helposti käytössä. Almodovarin
elokuvan Agrado lienee transnainen, joka on juuri tuossa tilanteessa. Toisaalta
samoilla markkinoilla palveluitaan tarjoavat myös transvestiitit ja drag queenit,
joilla kehon lääketieteen avulla tapahtuva korjaus ei ole välttämättä ole edes
tavoitteena. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Alkuperäinen
elokuva on tehty 1990-luvulla, jolloin maailma oli kovin erilainen kuin
nykyään. Kansallisteatteri käyttää produktiossaan Samuel Adamsonin laatimaa,
vuonna 2007 esitettyä englanninkielistä versiota, jossa Agrado on kirjoitettu
transvestiitiksi. Kansallisteatteri kuvaa myös tämän mukaisesti hahmoa
transvestiitiksi. Kuitenkin joissakin ennakkoon julkaistuissa
Kansallisteatterin esiteteksteissä on puhuttu Agradosta transnaisena. Asiaa ei
yhtään selventänyt teatterinjohtajan lausunto, jossa myös puhuttiin
transnaisesta. Helsingin Sanomien artikkelissa Agradon roolista hetkeksi
syrjäytetty Janne Reinikainen kyllä yritti oikeaa tilaa kuvata. Asia meni tässä
kohden vielä hankalampaan suuntaan, kun Reinikainen ei hyvää tarkoittavassa tekstissään
hallinnut käyttämiään käsitteitä ja aiheutti lisää mielipahaa. Tähän viestinnän
ristiriitaan ja elokuvan nähneiden mielikuvaan perustuu tällä kertaa
produktiosta noussut kohu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tässä kaikessa on
taustalla vaikeuttaa rikkinäistä puhelinta muistuttava väärinymmärrysten ketju.
Samuel Adamson näyttää kääntäneen Espanjan travesti-sanan suoraan
transvestite-muotoon. Jossain määrin haukkumasananakin käytetty travesti-sana on
kuitenkin paljon laajempi merkitykseltään kuin Suomessa käytetty
transvestiitti, ja sillä voidaan tarkoittaa käytännössä laajaa kirjoa
meikäläisittän ajatellusta transvestiitista meikäläisittäin ajateltuun
transnaiseen. Tekstissä Agradon hahmo on likimain sama kuin Almodovarin
elokuvassa. Vuonna 2007 tällainen summittaisuus saattoi mennä aiheuttamatta sen kummempaa kohua, mutta nykyään sen tuottamat arvo- ja viestiongelmat ovat tulleet voimakkaasti keskustelun keskiöön. Blogin lopussa on taulukko, jossa yritän vertailla Agradoa
perinteisiin transvestiitteihin ja transnaisiin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tätä kuviota taas
monimutkaisti vielä se, että tekstin oikeuksien omistaja painotti, että rooli
on kirjoitettu transvestiitiksi ja se on sen takia myös miesrooli. Vuonna 2007
tehdyssä produktiossa tämä oli myös asianlaita. Kansallisteatterin liikkumavara
oli näin vähäinen ja täynnä sisään rakennettua ristiriitaa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Olin itse
tilaisuudessa kertoa tuotantotiimille sukupuolen moninaisuuden kirjosta Setan
muiden toimijoiden kanssa. Tuolloin kerroimme, että Espanjassa käsitteet eivät
ole yhteneväisiä omiemme kanssa ja siitä, miten siellä on ihmisiä, joille
meillä ei ole käsitettä. Kerroimme myös siitä, että miehen esittämä transnainen
tulee varmasti herättämään suuren haloon. Meille kerrottiin, että hahmo on
tässä versiossa transvestiitti, mikä kuulosti jossain määrin oudolta, mutta
toki täytti poliittisen korrektiuden kriteerit. Itse tekstiä emme tuolloin saaneet
nähtäväksemme. Edelleen meille kerrottiin, että he olivat yrittäneet saada
rooliin transnaista siinä onnistumatta. Suomessa on kyllä pieni määrä transtaustaisia
näyttelijöitä, mutta +/-40 v transnaisnäyttelijöitä, jotka hallitsisivat näin
vaativan ja esitystä koossa pitävän roolin, ei ole helppoa löytää.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ennustamamme, yllä
kuvattu kiivas keskustelu oli alkanut jo hyvän aikaa ennen ensi-iltaa. </span>Tämä hulabaloo sai
Kansallisteatterin työryhmän kauhean paineen alle: Miten säilyttää pitkään
valmisteltu produktio ja toisaalta tehdä se poliittisesti korrektisti. Ratkaisu
oli muokata Agradosta selkeästi transvestiitti esimerkiksi niin, että hänen
kirurgiset implanttinsa vaihdettiin ulkoisiin irtorintoihin.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Hädissään työryhmä
pyysi minua ja muutamaa muuta transihmistä arvioimaan kokonaisuutta
ennakkoesitykseen. Kun sen näin ja kuulin, olin jossain määrin järkyttynyt:
Hahmoa oli toki ulkoisesti muokattu transvestiitiksi, mutta tekstin monet
keskeiset kohdat viittasivat edelleen travesti-identiteetin sellaiseen
ilmentymään, joka ei vastaa meikäläistä transvestiittia. Näin rikkinäinen
puhelin oli vääristänyt tilannetta edelleen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Janne Reinikainen
tekee kyllä mielenkiintoisen tutkielman, joka avaa uusia näkökulmia
maskuliinisuuden ulottuvuuksiin. Reinikaisen Agrado ei myöskään vahvista
stereotypioita siitä, että mies naista esittäessään olisi jotenkin naurettavuutta
kerjäävä elementti. Teoksen keskeiset aikuisroolit ovat kaikki jotenkin
huvittavia ja osin myös raadollisia. Agrado on huvittava etupäässä
omaehtoisesti. Naurettavuuden sijasta hänet päinvastoin esitetään voimakkaana
ja muutosta synnyttävänä - Almodovarin transhahmoilla on juuri tämä funktio
yleisemminkin. Suuri ongelma kuitenkin on, että Agradon vääntäminen meille
tutuksi transvestiitiksi syö olennaisesti teoksen taiteellis-dramaturgista
iskukykyä.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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kokonaisuudesta voi todeta, että sen ydinsanoma, yhteisyyden ja ystävyyden
ylistys, jäi hieman haileaksi. Siihen saattoi olla kyllä syynä se julkisuuden
kaamea paine, mikä vaikutti näyttelijöiden suoritukseen. Toisaalta myös
englantilainen toteutus vuodelta 2007 on saanut samansuuntaista
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tähänastisen keskustelun, siitä nousee muutamia näkökohtia: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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määrä kritiikistä nousee siitä mielikuvasta, joka sen esittäjillä on elokuvasta
tai Kansallisteatterin ensimmäisistä esitteistä, ei siis itse esityksestä.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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siitä, että cis-mies ei voisi näytellä transfeminiiniä hahmoa, on osin hyvin perusteltu,
mutta kategorisena ja toteutustapaa tuntematta jossain määrin yksioikoinen. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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sekaannus asiasta oli ymmärrettävä: Ohjaaja tulkitsi Agradon ilmeisesti tekstin
moniulotteisesti transnaisena, ja näyttelijä käsitti transvestiitin niin, kuin
se meillä tavallisesti ymmärretään. Tällainen sekaannus olisi kuitenkin pitänyt
ymmärtää selvityttää asiantuntijoilla ja tehdä eettiset ja taiteelliset
ratkaisut loogisesti sen perusteella. Jos hahmo olisi luotu transnaiseksi,
cis-nainen olisi ollut luonteva vaihtoehto transnäyttelijän puutteessa. Jos
taas hahmo olisi rakennettu meikäläisittäin ymmärretyksi transvestiitiksi,
tekstiä olisi pitänyt muokata vielä merkittävästi, jolloin sen tietyt keskeiset
dramaattisen huipennokset olisi joutunut poistamaan tai korvaamaan toisilla.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">- </span>Teatterin viestintää voidaan kutsua varomattomaksi, asiantuntemattomaksi ja asioihin heikosti paneutuneeksi, Tästä huolimatta sen saamassa rankassa kritiikissä on jäänyt vaille huomiota se, että tarkoitus on koko ajan ollut tehdä transihmisiä kunnioittava ja samalla taiteellisesti kestävä produktio, taito ja ymmärrys vain ovat olleet siihen riittämätömiä.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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lopputulos oli välisekoiluista huolimatta eettisesti kestävä, mutta<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dramaturgisesti hyvin ongelmallinen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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viikko näkemäni ennakkonäytöksen jälkeen, enkä tiedä, onko esitystä kovastikin
vielä muokattu näkemästäni.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Transvestiitin ja
transnaisen tyypillisiä piirteitä suhteessa elokuvan ja Adamsonin
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Kyllä<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 92pt;" width="215">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Tarpeen tullen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 30pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 30pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 114pt;" width="266">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Kehon muotojen muokkaus kirurgisesti<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 30pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 75pt;" width="175">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Hyvin<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>harvinainen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 30pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 83pt;" width="194">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ilmeisesti kyllä<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 30pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 92pt;" width="215">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Yleistä<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 29.15pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 114pt;" width="266">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Genitaalien muokkaus kirurgisesti<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 75pt;" width="175">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Hyvin<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>harvinainen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 83pt;" width="194">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ei<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 92pt;" width="215">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Yleistä<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 29.15pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 114pt;" width="266">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Kehon muokkaus ulkoisesti<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 75pt;" width="175">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Tyypillistä<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 83pt;" width="194">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ilmeisesti ei<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 92pt;" width="215">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Vai, jos muuta ei ole tarjolla<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.6pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 14.6pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 114pt;" width="266">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Viriili maskuliinisesti<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 14.6pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 75pt;" width="175">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Tyypillistä<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 14.6pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 83pt;" width="194">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ilmeisesti<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 14.6pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 92pt;" width="215">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Yleensä ei<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 43.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 43.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 114pt;" width="266">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Kokee olevansa nainen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 43.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 75pt;" width="175">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Mahdollinen, mutta harvinainen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 43.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 83pt;" width="194">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ilmeisesti ei<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 43.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 92pt;" width="215">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Tyypillinen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 29.15pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 114pt;" width="266">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Haluaa olla nainen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 75pt;" width="175">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Yleistä<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 83pt;" width="194">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Kyllä<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 29.15pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 92pt;" width="215">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ei, koska kokee olevansa nainen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 43.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 43.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 114pt;" width="266">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Elää 24/7 naisena<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 43.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 75pt;" width="175">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Mahdollista, mutta harvinaista<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 43.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 83pt;" width="194">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Kyllä<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 43.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 92pt;" width="215">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Tyypillistä, jos vain mahdollista<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.6pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 14.6pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 114pt;" width="266">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Maskuliini ilmaisu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 14.6pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 75pt;" width="175">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Yleistä<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 14.6pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 83pt;" width="194">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ajoittain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; height: 14.6pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 92pt;" width="215">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Harvinaista<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
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<br />Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-54160083673791322082020-08-30T20:33:00.000+03:002020-09-06T17:13:42.246+03:00The End of Summer 2020<br />
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Summer
after Midsummer has been time for gradual recovering from covid19 restrictions.
Being still somewhat careful we avoided crowds and public transportation. The
first and only trip abroad was top Tallinn on the less than half full ship.</div>
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cottage week we met relatives, including my parents and sisters. Meeting
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Karelia offered some nice places and moments for us as we travelled near our
cottage. One of our day trips was directed to Möhkö through Öllölä and Pörtsämö
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become a suburb of the town Joensuu. The urban atmosphere is totally absent
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bear trap. The old folks say if he is persuaded to drink moonshine with honey he will start yell oddly and that's the right moment to go to kill the beast. The iron spikes will help the task.</td></tr>
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On our we we visited Maukkula hill in Ilomantsi. We stayed our Midsummer here with our American friends 8 years ago. Now the generation has changed but we were very friendly welcomed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meeting super friendly animals at the kyyttö farm in Maukkula. Kyyttö is an original Eastern Finnish cow.</td></tr>
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Möhkö is an old industry village in Ilomantsi where iron was made of ore called limonite which is lifted from the lakes. My grandgrandfather was a director of the factory in early 20<sup>th</sup> century. There is a factory museum in the building he and his family used to live. There are even full size dolls representing my ancestors.</div>
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lakes of Kiihtelysjärvi to Jänisjärvi and finally to Lake Ladoga in Russia. The
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manor we haven’t visited earlier was Laukko manor near Tampere. The manor has a
long history being the main place of the famous and powerful medieval Finn
Klaus Kurki. The manor is connected to the folklore poem Elinan surma. Nowadays
the buildings are from much later periods but the manor has been important also
later. The manor has its not-so-good reputation treating the workers poorly which
made them strike in 1905 – leading the owner of the manor stop the strike very
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covid19 age even shorter trips felt relevant. One of them was a visit to Senate
Square in Helsinki city which was modified to a huge food terrace instead of
the parking place for tourist buses. The idea was from Major of Helsinki and it
got quite a lot resistance from religious and other conservative people – in fact
the square has been a place for mass happenings from the 19<sup>th</sup>
century. The idea seemed to be fine and now there have been talks of going on
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manors can easily be reached by bike. I visited Espoonkartano in the beginning
of August but my interest was mostly the nature of the two tiny Mankki and
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One of my bike trips was also directed to municipal carpet wash place. One of
the fellow wash ladies told she has always left her carpets dry there – no
carpets stolen so far. I was not so fearless – and no stolen carpets in my
yard, either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interesting thing also happened in late August. The National Theatre has a
project ”Todo sobre mi madre” on the basis of Pedro Almodovora film and I was
invited to tell about trans people to support the view in the production. My
role was mostly to tell about myself, but we had very long discussion about
identities, representation and the words used. The problem is the identity spectrum
of Finnish trans people is not equivalent to Spanish ones. One of the main reasons
is we have public and very affordable process to correct the body while in
Spain the funding is sadly organized with prostitution in many cases. While the
customers mostly prefer male genitals there is social pressure to delay the total
physical process. This fact reflects also to identities and it is not always easy
to make a distinction between transvestites and trans women. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The actors of the trans roles are cis people
and were very pleased to get information about these things. We asked if they
have asked trans actors for these roles and they replied they had tried without
any success.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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semester has taken off. While the covid19 situation had got worse we are advised
to minimize the contact lessons. In a way I’m happy about it while I can skip
the trip to campuses, almost one and half hour twice a day. I still have to go
there for some practical studies. It is quite hard to teach 8 hours masked in
constant excess of carbon dioxide. But I will bravely stand it, this is my last
semester before retiring. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ups and skipping the extra 2 hours for travelling made the days not so heavy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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quarantine determined by the Finnish Government lasted till June but I’m still
in the mode of reduced contacts to other people and try to keep distance for
avoiding virus contamination. The usage of masks has been decreased and it has
not been total during the entire pandemic, due to somewhat contradictory instructions
of Finnish authorities. Otherwise Finland has been one of the most successful countries
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My mind adapted to the situation: Mostly I didn't have thoughts like "Oh, I'd like to go to gym... but OMG, I can't do it!". In some glimpses of the moment I had throwbacks of the wonderful places we have visited or moments we have experienced. And then it felt like they belonged to another world. After the experience I might better understand the people with depression or total shortage of money.</div>
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The most important thing to me was my New Year decision to take Anukatariina my
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my nearest colleagues about the change and they took it instantly as a norm. Then
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And every
new year gives you an additional year to your age. That happened the 2<sup>nd</sup>
of February and it was the magical number 64. As I was in the beginning of my teens
the Paul McCarthy song “When I’m Sixty Four” became familiar to me. The song
tells about the vision what it is to be at the age of 64. Now we both have reached
the point and it is time for checking if the facts match the prediction. Many
things have come true but there are slight differences though... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So let’s check out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When I get
older losing my hair many years from now – Happened a bit earlier but covered
with the wig most of the time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Will you
still be sending me a Valentine – Yes, it’s a tradition <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Birthday
greetings bottle of wine – A bottle together is fine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If I'd been
out till quarter to three would you lock the door - Going out in night time isn’t
very popular nowadays<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Will you
still need me, will you still feed me when I'm sixty-four - Yes, we still need
and feed ourselves – though our story has started during the ongoing millennium.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">You'll be
older too – You’re less than a year ahead though<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And if you
say the word I could stay with you <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>–
No problem, the plan A is stick tightly together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I could be
handy, mending a fuse when your lights have gone – Yep, still my job<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">You can
knit a sweater by the fireside <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>– Not anymore dear,
even though you’d wanted to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sunday
mornings go for a ride <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>–
Maybe we should buy a side-by-side model. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Doing the
garden, digging the weeds who could ask for more – I dig the weed and you tell
where the flowers should be planted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Every
summer we can rent a cottage In the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear – Maybe
it is but we still have our cottage week every summer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We shall
scrimp and save…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-
We’ll see after I’ve retired....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Grandchildren
on your knee Vera, Chuck and Dave <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>–
More than three grandkids!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My birthday
weekend consisted some special activities. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the Ingria exhibition at the National Museum. The Ingrian people were of Finnish origin at the St. Petersburg region and most of them were expelled to the Gulags in Stalin era. Now many of them live also in Finland.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toasting with the Runeberg cake. The birthday of the national Poet Ruinebergi is on 5th of February.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The grandkids
will come to play on my knee next weekend.</span></div>
Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-9659212495045471712019-12-25T20:08:00.000+02:002020-01-23T19:38:33.448+02:00The end of the year 2019<br />
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The last
quarterly of the year 2019 was busy as usual, maybe even more so. In addition
to normal Dreamwear Club and TransHelsinki managements was <a href="http://dreamwearclub.net/">Dreamwear Club homepage</a> project. Luckily we have a professional among us, Tuula Marika was the
head programmer. I was sort of architecture planner and content producer. The pages are based on Wix
technology which means ready-made templates and makes my work easy as a non
professional programmer. We made various
sections including information to trans people and people interested in the
subject, news, calendar and formal part for the association among others. In
the very end of the year we added forum part and the members only section and
hope these sections will make the pages more interactive and popular.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As I attended
the Radiation safety day for professionals I finally introduced Anukatariina to
my entire professional environment. There were lots of my former students to
meet. The response was very relaxed: When I tried to say it’s me, they just
interrupted and said hi, T.... maybe the rumor had spread wide enough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The congress hall in Tampere</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There were an evening event between the days. The star of the night was a pop artist Arttu Viskari, but I and my colleague Pia were too tired to listen to him too long – so we decided to walk back to our hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With my former students and collagues Pia and Päivi before Arttu Viskari</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The big
change to my daily work was that the campus moved to Myllypuro from places
around Huopalahti bay. For me it means I must use metro instead of train and I
have no benefit of using bike. On the other hand lecturing online instead of
live audience increases. Part of it can be done at home but part of it must be
done in studios at<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the campus. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closing the season with colleagues in a restaurant in Myllypuro</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My
political activity included things that have become somewhat constant parts of
my life. Against Hate campaign activities included some meetings in National
Board of Education and Crime Victim Support. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> Education about gender diversity was directed totally to my students. </span>I was also interviewed to the Seta video project - which surprisingly took place at my home.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And as
usual, I attended Seta representative assembly, as a representative of Dreamwear
Club. The assembly took place in Joensuu, my old home town. It was also the
hottest Pikkujoulu (Little Christmas) season so the hotel was crowded with
celebrating people. I tried to spot my old friends but failed totally. Maybe
their outlook has changed too much or –which is the most possible explanation –
they have mostly retired and so not present at the events arranged by workplaces.
And the star of the night was Arttu Viskari – which I skipped also this time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a major effort and despite I had much more people doing it than last year it
took some resources. The main efforts were the community seminar and the
Transgender Day of Remembrance event TDOR in 20<sup>th</sup> of November. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We had a nice opportunity to arrange the seminar at the old cinema theater Orion. The theme was the young trans people. The new government offers a major progress to
trans legislation by separating juridical and medical procedures. Unfortunately
the reformation excludes people over eighteen years. There are no rational
reasons to do so: The young people need social transition before they get the
medical one. On the other hand living in one’s own gender role helps to assure
it really is the right choice; if not, the procedure is rather easy to cancel. The
other thing is the international recommendations suggest the medical procedure
should start just after thorough examinations that might take years. In Finland
the examinations are started only after age of thirteen which makes it hard to use
effective medical methods for adolescent people. Another very serious thing taking
place simultaneously is very aggressive attack from conservative religious
groups targeting any support to young trans people. Unfortunately the attack is
carried out even by some doctors with authority in this field, representing the
theory of so called Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria which is derived by a
transphobic doctor on basis of the parents who would not accept their kids
being trans. The theory is not approved by the international expert
organizations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, because of the
authority position of the Finnish doctor even the Finnish Broadcasting Company
let her introduce the theory without any criticism on it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So we had a lot of program about the youngsters in the seminar. We had the chair of Seta and medical student Sakris Kupila talking about the medical points of view. My friend Tanja von Knorring spoke about the history, background and future perspectives on trans legislation. Milla Kissaniitty gave a speech from the perspective of trans kids and their parents. I told the results of our survey of the implementation of the new name law. From the beginning of this year it has been possible to change one’s first names to other gendered name with so called good explanations for the need – before it the proof of gender reassignment process was needed. The sad thing is there is a instruction to demand the medical proof for kid under fifteen – there is no such mention in the law though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the seminar was the All Youth Panel with very bright thinking and quick-witted
youngsters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The TDOR
event took place on the front stairs of the House of Parliament. The event is
for remembering the murdered trans people in the world this year. There were a
list of over 300 murdered just for being trans – of course trans people are
also murdered for other reasons as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I had reserved the place and made the notice to Police a couple of months before. Some hour before the event I was contacted by a police officer. She said that she is very sorry but there has been a double booking for the stairs that time. The other was a demonstration against Chile government. There is enough room for two events on the stairs but there was another problem: Our event is based on very quiet remembering of the dead people and their way to demonstrate was beating kettles – a tradition from the Pinochet junta era. When we had similar event before the police was sitting passively in their vans to observe our and possible intruders’ activities. This time they were very active and willing to settle our possible conflicts. The main organizer of the Chile demonstration came to me to negotiate the situation. I had an idea to act in turn but the language barrier made it clear too complicated dramaturgy would be too difficult to be carried out. So I said we were the first ones to inform the Police so we also had the privilege to start first but it will not take more than a half an hour. So when we started the Chile demonstrators joined our event and we joined theirs after we had finished – a nice win-win situation instead of a conflict. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I had a
destination to go to gym once a week but it failed because of my other
activities. I’m still satisfied with the concept and will continue in the same
gym place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thing I had to skip was an intensive training of belly dance. I’m still in the
group with a level slightly beyond my skills. Fortunately I had a weekend just
before the performance when I had enough time to rehearse. So the performance
was not a disaster, though with more practice it could have better, much
better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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continued as my spouse got ill just before Christmas. So I had to do some more
preparations than I used to do. Maybe it was a good thing, now I have at least
emptied my mind of my other daily issues and only think totally something
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Different sorts of Christmas delicacy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A phoenix cake ready from the oven</td></tr>
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<br />Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-21148111308444722442019-11-09T17:39:00.001+02:002019-11-09T23:29:49.094+02:00Dalmatian Week without Black Spots<br />
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Today I finally have time to write up my memories of our trip a month ago.<br />
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In October
we had the conventional autumn holiday and we made our long term wish to visit
the Dalmatian coast to come true. Our main destination was Dubrovnik and Split
as the secondary target. We thought the time to go there would be perfect
because we like neither heat nor crowds of tourists. The temperature was about
23 degrees in the days and about 16 degrees in the evenings – the nights we
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dubrovnik
is a very old town – actually it has been a state competing with the mighty power
of Mediterranean Venice. It has been sort of democracy where the rector was
elected to rule only a month! During the colonial time Dubrovnik lost its power
to more powerful countries like Spain, England and Holland and it was a part of
the Austro-Hungary Empire, Yugoslavia and finally Croatia. The last dramatic
period for the town was the siege and bombardment by the Serbian troops in
1991. The center of Dubrovnik is a UNESCO world heritage site and was destroyed
very badly. Nowadays it has been restored quite well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Split also
has very long history. Its center is built inside the Palace of the Roman
emperor Diocletian who happened to be a Dalmatian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Our apartment was situated one and a half kilometres from the center of Dubrovnik. It was quite near the sea and we had a balcony view to the twinkling Adrian.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> On
the other hand the sea was not so easy to reach, the steep rocky embankments
were not too easy for Sini. So we went swimming only once near the apartment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sini is a very skilful swimmer but because
her just operated shoulder she chose the pool instead the waves of Adriatic Sea
– which happened to stay very calm all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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day was for Split. The distance between the cities is about 170 kilometers
straight but because of the serpentine shape of the coastline road it would
take about four hours! So we had a plan to stay there about three hours.
Because some delays during the trip it took five hours so we had less than two
hours in Split. The view to Adriatic Sea and its Archipelago was terrific and
we surely had enough time to enjoy it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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to our diminished schedule we had only time for eating and visiting the palace
area which is a mixture of ancient Roman and medieval constructions. Anyway we
had enough time to sense its powerful feeling of its area of greatness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As it was
October the sun started to set soon after we stated our way back to Dubrovnik.
So the view was different this time, and rather dark after the sunset. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br />We were
a bit worried about the safety of </span>travelling in the bus. Later we found out
there has been a bus fire a week before our trip where a Finnish couple had
managed to get out just in time.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The nice
little nuance was the grenade apple given by a toilet lady in a bus stop
station half way to Dubrovnik. We had the apple as a part of our breakfast next
morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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day was committed to Dubrovnik center. We had two guided tours, the first in
the streets and the other on the walls surrounding the old center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our first guide has lived his childhood in
these narrow streets and seen the old shabby period, then the war period and
the huge growth of tourism in current century. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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priest has written complaints on boys’ noisy football playing in the hoods our
guide also used to play – in the 17th century!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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guide on the walls was also very informative but on the other hand full of
Croatian patriotism with not so accurate facts on the people and history of
Dubrovnik. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The fourth
day was for the Adriatic archipelago. We visited three islands near Dubrovnik. The
trip was very well organized, we had car transportation to the harbor and
there was enough food and wine on board. The weather was optimal for such a
trip, sun was shining and there was no wind and waves. One of the islands was
perfect for our beach life, we had more than an hour to swim and have some
sunbath. The beach was on the other side of the island from the place we landed
but we took a golf cart cab to get there.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So peaceful and pleasant!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The other
island was more rural with a nice fisher village. The third was quite near
Dubrovnik so it seemed to be a sort of suburb. Anyway I had time to walk behind
the houses and find a remote olive grove. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view of the fisher village</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One night Sini
broke her toes and this made her walking very uneasy. So the fifth day I took a
walk to neighborhood of our apartment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
ended up to a hill and walked for some time in the rocky and bushy slopes of
it. I tried to look carefully to my feet to avoid stepping on any poisonous
snakes living there. I only saw a rather long tail of a lizard escaping me and
a dead snake. I also spotted a hiding mantis and some interesting butterflies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the hill there was a chapel dedicated to St Blasius, a guy you have severe difficulties to avoid in Dubrovnik </td></tr>
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morning of our departure day we hired the taxi to the airport. I asked the taxi
driver if he knew something about the burned bus. He replied he knows the owner
of the bus and that the old buses of him overheat rather often. At the airport
I had the first contact to my everyday life: I met my colleague Pirkko-Leena
who also had been near Dubrovnik the same week. She told her husband knew about
the burned bus but didn’t tell her because they had a plan to visit Montenegro
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was so dry especially in my “territory” so I didn’t even try to pick
blueberries. Instead of that I contacted a semi professional person whom I knew
to an immigrant. When I called her her husband answered and told the berries
would be ready in six p.m. When I arrived there he told there is two hours
delay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him I’ll go to a mall
nearby and asked him to call when the berries are ready. After an hour he
called to tell me the berries were ready. The reason I told the story was
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had been spoken to a man and met a lady and I had to explain the situation
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as Anukatariina at work almost every day. Till this semester I still didn’t do
it when I had education to professionals. This time I also broke that rule. As
a consequence a former student of mine came to tell me how I’ve looked good and
got ten years younger! She was my student ten years ago and I just wonder how
old I must have looked then...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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political and social activities have been the main reason for my busy fall. We
have updated the home page of Dreamwear Club which have taken some effort: Both
the content and the technique of the page have been out of date and we had to
build a brand new version. It is still under minor modifications but I’m happy to
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effort has been TransHelsinki happening in November which has quite a lot of
preparatory work, because the “staff” has not been too big. I also have
attended some meetings around the Against Hate program been, at the Seta desk
at the Early Childhood Education Fair, done some experience teaching and been
interviewed as a Seta activist at my home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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meeting of the Dreamwear Club had Oktoberfest as its theme. This kind of themed
meetings seems to be a good idea and we decided to continue this tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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day after the fall meeting I travelled to Brussels. Finland holds the
Presidency of the EU and organized an event with the Commission, which set out
guidelines for the EU equality policy, especially with regard to the LQBTI
people. The situation in different EU countries is strikingly different and in
the Eastern countries it is alarming, mostly because of the skilful and well
planned international hate campaign against us. Finland had quite a big
delegation and I and my friend Tanja were part of it, also representing our
associations Dreamwear Club and Regnbågsankan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It seemed I was the only transvestite in the congress among 600 people.
We had possibilities to our initiatives to promote equality and resist hate
politics in Europe and some of our points were present in the final statement
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lose her heart in the place she loves. I lost my coat to<br />
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because it was too warm to wear it there and because we had too good time
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When we entered there the sky turned blue – this is the normal and magical phenomenon in the area happening in seven p.m.<br />
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There we met my daughter and daughters of my sisters. The latter ones met me as Anukatariina for the first time and took the situation very naturally. After some days also my other daughter came there with my grandkids, followed by my eldest sister and my wife’s daughter. The weather didn’t turn very warm but it was possible to do some activities as fishing and sauna bathing with swimming in a lake.<br />
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The big event was the 70<sup>th</sup> wedding anniversary of my parents. They still live in their own apartment though their locomotion has naturally got slower. There were more than 20 people celebrating, maybe more their offspring together than ever.<br />
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weather in west which also persuaded us to go on. To get to Raahe from Kitee it
would take some time and we left Kitee only at 4 p.m. So we had a break to stay
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minerals. We came there rather late and just in time for the supper before the kitchen
closed. There was a grand piano in the restaurant hall so I asked if I could
play something after having permission I played one piece and was asked to play
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Runni Spa is situated by a little river and we walked the path on the banks of it. On our way we crossed the river along the suspension bridge. My wife thought we would get back by crossing the river in the other place. As we walked further it turned out there is no other bridge available near enough and even the path disappeared. So we came back the same way we went there. The Runni mosquitoes seemed to like my wife and gave a plenty of itchy souvenirs to her skin.<br />
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relative expression in the western coast of Finland: Because of the ice age the
ground has been pressed down and even now, thousands of years later it is
lifted almost a centimeter in a year. The effect is strongest just in the areas
we traveled. That’s why the old towns can be quite far from the sea though
they have founded as harbor towns. Most of the towns we visited were founded
in 17<sup>th</sup> and 18<sup>th</sup> centuries by the Swedish kings and
queens – Queen Christina’s administration was very active in this branch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with some other cities we visited. Maybe the housing bureau of Raahe is too
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The place we stayed night was very charming in the center point of the old town. It was a combination of cafe and hotel with four rooms. The building has been originally a trading house and the hotel rooms for the staff and the traders who stayed there before going back to their own place. Everything in the building was somewhat in old style, except the bathroom which naturally had modern WC and shower.<br />
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headed to south along the coastal line. The first place to mention is Kalajoki,
which is famous for its dunes by the sea. Nowadays the area is full with
tourism that makes it no so attractive. The weather was sunny with hard and chilly
wind and this fact dispelled our wishes to go to swim very effectively. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">South of Kalajoki we also visited another beach area Vattaja. Vattaja has been closed area because it is next to army shooting area so tourism has not spoiled it, yet. In the end of the peninsula there is a picturesque fisher village and the nature with sandy beaches and forests seem to be almost intact.</span></div>
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founded in 1620 by Gustaf Adolf the second to an old harbour place. It has its
modern centre but just behind it it has its old town. The old town in Finland
means wooden houses from 17<sup>th</sup>, 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup>
centuries. The condition of the houses were significantly better than in Raahe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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town destination was Pietarsaari. We chose the route through the archipelago between
the towns. On our way we drove through Luoto, a tiny and peculiar place. Many
of its inhabitants belong to a religious group that seems to have their own thoughts
of the world. The real hit there is silver water drinking. The other norm there
is avoiding vaccination which has led to a measles epidemic, imported from
Jerusalem. When we went through the main village we noticed the Lutheran church<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has been founded by Count Jacob de la Gardie in 1652 under reign of Queen
Christina. The Founder has his name in the Swedish name Jakobstad, the Finnish
name refers to Per Brahe. Pietarsaari is a bit smaller than Kokkola and
definitely more Swedish speaking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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these two the next town Uusikaarlepyy is a miniature. It has been founded by Gustaf
Adolf the second in 1620 to replace the problem of Kokkola: The missing harbour
because of the ground lifting. The plan didn’t seem to work very well in long
term evaluation, the town has not increased to a modern city. But on the other
hand it is a picturesque attraction for us tourists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our next night in Jutha next to Uusikaarlepyy. The name Jutha is famous of the Runeberg
story of the general Döbeln in the so called Finnish war against Russia in 1809
where the Swedish army won the Russian troops just one more time – shortly after
this Russia conquered the whole Finland for the next hundred years. Our
sleeping place was an old manor but I didn’t find any mentions of general
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noticed that there were lots of beautiful but obviously abandoned pheasant
houses. We have got used seeing such in Eastern Finland where people tend to
escape to better living conditions but this was a surprise for us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it is so easy to go to Sweden for Swedish
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the biggest city in the Swedish speaking area and because its importance it
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in the year 1611 by Charles the IX. The old city has burned almost totally in
the 19<sup>th</sup> century and the new one has founded nearer the sea – guess why!
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is one of its islands. There is a huge bridge leading to it. It is called The
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activities. In Finland we call this kind of activity the bridge drum policy,
getting extra votes for something concrete just for one’s own ward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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destination Närpiö is famous for its tomatoes, a majority of domestic tomatoes
comes from there. The other famous thing is its ancient oriented dialect, even
many Swedish speakers have difficulties in understanding it. The third thing to
mention is the Church area with lots of red cabins for the people who stayed
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town Kaskinen is famous for being the tiniest town in Finland. It has been
founded by Gustaf the third in 1785 and seems to be a failure, it has not
increased until a pulp factory was founded. It still has only about 1200
inhabitants. The centre of the city is practically wooden and with no modern
business buildings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hectic Kaskinen city main street during the rush hour</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Near Kaskinen
is our next destination Kristiinankaupunki. It has also founded by Per Brahe in
1649. It has stayed a little town and preserved its look beautifully with very
narrow streets and all of its modern business buildings built in separate area
and even in the way they also look old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristiinankaupunki street view</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Posing with TaruNina in the corner of the narrowest street in Finland, The Cat Whipper's Street</td></tr>
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We stayed the night in Kristiinankaupunki. Our friend TaruNina offered us the whole second floor of her wonderfully reconstructed old house. She also was our guide to absorb more of the history and culture of the city. The next day she also was our company as we attended the Kristiinankaupunki fair where the population of the town suddenly increases to tenfold.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristiinankaupunki market place - that day the whole center was a market place. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old church of Kristiinankaupunki with its not so upright tower</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Improvising in the old church</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We
continued our journey to south by driving near the coastline to Pori. Pori city
was too familiar and too normal to us to get any new inspirations so we skipped
it and headed straight home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-43039614651733492842019-07-18T14:07:00.000+03:002019-07-18T22:57:10.938+03:00Helsinki Pride 2019Helsinki
Pride takes place the week after the midsummer. As always it is full of
different activities for me.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The first
one was a panel discussion about rainbow rights organized by the UN youth of
Helsinki. I was one of the panelists to tell about the circumstances in the past
and the needs for the future. The age range of the panelists was from 18 to 69
years. We concluded that much positive has happened but still much waits to be
done. There also were some extra specialist speeches. One of them was held by Tommi
Paalanen from the sexuality rights organization Sexpo ry. He emphasized the
hazard of co operation of ultra conservative forces all over the world against
the sexual and rainbow rights. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The UN youth panel, Photo by UN youth of Helsinki</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Tuesday
we had our traditional Pride peer support evening for transvestites with almost
20 attendees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On
Wednesday the most important thing was the information stand about the trans
legislation at the Pride House, which was situated at the National Museum this
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The museum had really invested in
the Pride so we had practically anything we needed there, thanks for the super
friendly and helpful staff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the Pride House information stand with Tanja</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We noticed
that our stand was really needed. Ordinary people kept asking what they could
do and we asked them to follow the situation, sign the petitions, attend the
demonstrations, share the pro trans material on social media and influence the
politicians they know. The situation just now is that we will have a new law
that separates the juridical and medical trans process, but thanks for the
religious members of some government parties the right to change one’s
juridical gender applies only the people over 18 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The other
important target was the young trans people who seemed to be rather ignorant of their rights for changing their first name according to the new name law.
Unfortunately our stand was situated in the place that only few of them found
us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We also had
a not so much wanted person who even had a notebook for the critical questions
of our politics. He had concerns about the statistical, medical and many other
confusion because of the juridical definition of the gender not following the
chromosomes of the individual. We comforted him the statistics will be even
more precise when the gender is determined on the basis of the one the
individual considers to be the right one. And what comes to the medical
confusions, professionals should be able to handle the situations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Wednesday
evening I attended the dance hall dances. I was there only a little time but
still had a wonderful opportunity to be danced by an excellent gentleman – to
be lead instead of leading is still in practice but in this case the signs
where to move were both logical, clear and imaginative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the Dance Hall Ball</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Thursday
we (the trans political committee of Seta) organized a panel about the
legislation impacts for the trans people. The panelists consisted of a trans
man, a trans woman, a young non binary and a transvestite (me). We concluded
that there are severe flaws in the situation but on the other hand there also
is legislation supporting our life – partly not implemented in the reality though.
The situation is also very different depending where you live and work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Having a glass of something after the panel with Tuija, Hanna-Maria and Tanja </td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
National Museum recorded the panel as a document of the present day so we
stayed as a part of the Finnish history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Friday has
traditionally been the day for service. I also made the traditional mushroom
pie for the picnic after the parade on Saturday. As I was taking the materials
out of the larder my cell phone ringed. TaruNina and Sari Kristiina wanted to
visit so I called them in to observe my pie making.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With the pie observation committee</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Helsinki
Pride parade has increased its number of attendees year by year. This time it
was something over 100 000. We marched in the Seta block. Unfortunately we
failed to have our banderole so many of our friends didn’t find us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The starting point, the Senate Square</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pride and joy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pride and joy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shame and hate: The not so huge counter demonstrators organized by Finnish Agenda Europe activists</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We had our picnic camp in the outskirts of the park to be able to chat to people we met. The pie was a hit as usual. We thought our information stand should have been there to be found much more people who would have needed the information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our camp</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last bite of the pie for the late birdie Maimu</td></tr>
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<br />Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-38310165645393456882019-06-28T16:37:00.000+03:002019-07-20T23:03:28.049+03:00A short tour in Saaremaa<br />
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The island is very famous for its nature and “white nights” as the song tells us
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was on the northern side of the island so we decided to drive along the
northern coastline. First we stopped in Orissaare village where we enjoyed some
refreshment in a tavern next to the “stadium” – the tracks probably made of car
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was situated near Küdema village and it was made of logs taken from some old
house. The steep ladders led to a low attic for sleeping. There was a modern
bathroom with shower but because of the chemistry of the soil the water stink
terribly of hydrogen sulphide. The cottage area was surrounded by pastures for sheep
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interests in the Saaremaa nature were many: Birds, orchids, butterflies and
hopefully seals. However our skills are quite limited except the bird so we
just enjoyed what we saw and hoped that we would see some more. What comes to
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butterflies who tend to glide somewhat like monarchs. The other numerous big
butterfly was Vanessa cardui.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tells about the white nights of Saaremaa. For Finns it is not especially mystical
thing. However we saw a magical combination of red sun and green grass which we
unfortunately failed to catch to camera at its best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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second day we traveled westwards and spotted some more cliffs. The nature
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our destinations had signs of private place and we couldn’t get there – the feature
not so common in Finland for the nature sights. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cultural environment is not yet severely damaged by the modern world. The
nicest example of it was </span>the Ninase fisher village near one of the cliffs.</div>
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afternoon we ended up to Kuressaare, the main city of the island. We had our
lunch in a fish restaurant near the medieval castle. I ordered cam pike and was
surprised by its’ green bones which naturally helped the eating a bit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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day was the last and we had a ferry tickets from Tallin to Helsinki this
evening. We still had some time to visit places on our way. One of them was
Kaali meteor crater in the middle of the island. It is not very big but it has
it special feeling with elm trees surrounding the pond in the center of the
crater. The Estonia is full of big stones that actually don’t belong to the
places they are now. The folklore claims the mythical person Kalevipoeg has
thrown them when he got mad every now and then. The real thing that happened
was that the ice has transported the stones from Finland during the ice age.
But maybe the Kaali stones really were thrown by him, at least they have
definitely come from the air. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lunch on our way in Laitse castle in the mainland. The castle was somewhat like
an English manor made of gray stone. We were the only customers so we had our own private servant. We ordered mallard in calvados sauce and of course it tasted noble - with common expenses. We asked how come it is possible to have mallard
round the year in Estonia and had an explanation it also can be hunted round
the year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-3651464147392965272019-06-14T22:34:00.002+03:002019-06-15T14:21:28.871+03:00Spring 2019 brieflyThe spring
after the winter holiday has gone somewhat fast. There’s nothing much to tell
about my normal life and this is just amazing: The way I live now was beyond my
dreams just some years ago.<br />
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to work either by bus or by bike. Thanks for the new metro my way to work takes
15 minutes longer than it used to take. Luckily there is an alternative by train
that is the fastest. My gym is near the metro so I still use this way as well.
When I work at home I usually go there by bike.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weather has been quite warm so I have had an experience of working in bikini –
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work I’ve been busy with political issues as well. I’ve been a vice chair in
Seta trans political committee and full of things with the Trans Act campaign.
We had a parliamentary election and before it we had very conservative
government with no good for trans people. After the election the situation
turned around: Despite of the victory of True Finns we got a new government
with more progressive views on the issue. In the program the government
declared that juridical and medical gender reassignment should be separated and
the juridical should be based on the individual’s own decision. The sad thing
was the religious part of the coalition demanded it should be allowed only for
over 18 years old citizens. It seems that the people who demanded this restriction
didn’t really understand what was it all about – or actually it seems they didn’t
even want to understand. So after the new program has been declared we have
campaigned very intensively for the rights of young trans people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that divides Finnish nation is the climate issue. Especially our young people
are very anxious about the situation and on the other hand the right wing
populists want to neglect the issue and say we have already done more than
needed for it. This one together with trans act immigrant issues has created
sort of “enough is enough” thinking which has increased their popularity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Demonstrating again, this time to stop the man made climate change</td></tr>
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many issues has been the work against hate crimes and hate speech. It seems
that there’s a campaign going on for blurring the meaning of hate speech. And the
same people who seem to act in the campaign very easily seem to get to the
blurred zone and even further. Their argument is mostly the freedom of the
speech and they want to ignore the responsibility of one’s sayings and writings.
The other problem is many LGBTI people won’t report the crimes they face in
social media or in real life. The reason for that have been either their
experiences or impressions of officials who ignore their reports because the
deeds have been so minor! I attended in a discussion in the Ministry of Justice
about the problems the minorities face in such cases. There is an emergency help
organization for the victims of crime and we try to encourage LGBTI people to
use it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wonderful detail of the meeting was that I used Anukatariina for the first time
as my official name in the Ministry security control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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One meta-political
case also took place. As I was polling in the EU election the lady behind the
desk stared at my brand new ID card with three male names before the name
Anukatariina. Then she stared at her screen and again at the card. After doing
it some while she said: “Excuse me, I have to check one tiny thing...” and
disappeared. It took some minutes before she came back and looking somewhat
relieved said: “Now, where were we...”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
replied that as a citizen I have the right to know the cause of the delay. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asked if I really want to know and I
answered I definitely did. So she told the reason: “You look so much like a
woman...” I asked didn’t my fourth name ring any bell and she explained this
was the first time for her. I told her to be sure it will not be the last one
either.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Hauho meeting in May was a bit different this time for me because I was the
chair of Dreamwear Club and I had to lead the annual meeting there. </span></div>
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I also made an interview of the Finnish transvestite Icon BB about the old days and about the ladies of the sixties and seventies. I will edit it to Youtube when I have a little time.<br />
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<br />Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-53462306433591105402019-03-08T22:47:00.001+02:002019-03-24T18:33:48.710+02:00Official Anukatariina in Portugal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As I told
in my previous blog I had sent my application for getting Anukatariina as my official
fourth name. After waiting about a month I finally got the message that my
dream has become true. Although it is
still just the fourth name I have informed my colleagues I appreciate much if
they call me Anukatariina instead my official first name. We’ll see how the
things will go.</div>
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Because of the new name I have to change all my official cards like ID card, passport and driving licence. Luckily it didn't stop me travelling, the air carrier and foreign officials don't know about the change, yet. And there was a need for showing my ID card because we traveled to Portugal. We have been
there many times but never in the northern parts of the country. Our
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Or actually we had a short visit to UK first: Our Finnish carrier cancelled our straight flight to Lisbon and we used British Airways which flew with a stopover in Heathrow. In the terminal there were some pianos and grand pianos with signs: "Play me" - so I had to obey and had my first gig in UK ever.</o:p></span><br />
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The flight included several passport controls and security checks - pretty much like Brexit would have already taken place. That's why the trip took some time so we stayed the first night in Lisbon and continued to Porto next morning by train.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Porto is the city of port wine. It is the
second biggest town in the country but the old part of it is not very big, one
hill and the banks of river Douro. People really live in the old and many times
quite shabby houses built against one another. We took a guided walk in the old
city and heard many stories about the history of the town. The guide had a
talent to add some humour and elements easy to identify with. For example we
heard that the writer of Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has lived there and had taken the idea of the
black witch school cape <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from the
students of Porto University. The Portuguese can get their credits in the matter also in other way: The writer were married with a Portuguese man and after the divorce she was broken and had to do something...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harry Potter funs...? No, the opposite, the source of the inspiration </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A scene in Porto </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the port of Porto</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Portugal is
the land of artistic glassed tiles and Porto is full of them. At first we saw
them in the railway station which is full of them telling stories of the heroic
history of Portugal. The other place we saw big fresco like constructions was
the inner yard of the Porto Dome. The smaller ones were all over the city in
the buildings.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The inner yard of the Dome of Porto</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ladies at the railway station of Porto</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the administrative part of the Dome of Porto</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A scene in Porto, note the walls of the nearest house</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The port
wine factories were at the other side of the river Douro so we had to cross the
river along the high bridge that is meant for the pedestrians and trams. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These trams were not the original ones that we
saw in the old city – it is said that new ones have not enough friction in
their wheels to climb up to the hill. We got some information of the different
types of port wine by buying a set of five different types, a little glass of
each. The experience was very informative – and somewhat intoxicating, as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A scene from the bridge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Typical historical boats for port wine transporting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Typical tourists comparing port wines</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One night
we went to a Fado club where we heard live music and saw a slide show about the
history and essence of Fado. It turned out that our next destination Coimbra is
probably the most important fado town and it has deep roots in Coimbra
University. The male singer was from Coimbra and he also sang the most famous
fado, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY0fOvRg7KQ">Coimbra</a> – which is known as “The April of Portugal” in Finland. He told
that fados were sung in the romantic botanical garden of Coimbra and had some historical
pictures of the sessions there.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the fado club</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fado from Coimbra in Porto</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Next day we
took the train to Coimbra. The town is smaller than Porto but it is very proud
of its university which have the history from medieval era. It had started as a
collegiums of wise men in Lisbon and moved to the Royal Castle of Coimbra
later. The university area is on the top of the hill – the common habit to
build castles those times. So we had to climb uphill again. Actually we missed
the funicular although we were told such one was available but we were not
unhappy about it. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Harry Potter fans in Coimbra</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The way up to the university hill of Coimbra</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the top</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The freshman initiation rite going on at the campus</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We went down back to the city through the Botanical Garden
and it was not hard to imagine the romantic origins of fados, especially the
most famous one Coimbra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Magnolias of the botanical garden seemed to match with my scarf</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bamboo jungle of the botanical garden</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There is an
old town that, as in so many other towns, have changed to tourist shop area. On
the other hand just next corner of the tourist area begins the shopping area
for the locals with very traditional shops with very traditional repertoire of
goods.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-72428935921956612112019-02-10T19:13:00.001+02:002019-03-24T18:33:26.223+02:00Starting the year 2019, before I forget...<br />
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Finally a dense cushion of snow stopped me and turned the skate to the toe picks which finally made me fall. My arms and elbows were quite sore and I went to the hospital to check whether there would be any fractures. I was X-rayed and after that I was called to the operation room where the doctor said I have a microrupture in my right radius and it must be plastered. So I got a modern “plaster” made of wood chips and biological membrane. They also said they will contact me after some more doctors have seen my X-ray images.<br />
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The worst thing was it was my birthday and I had to cancel the meeting with my grandkids. I also had to replan many things that would be inconvenient with my right arm plastered. On the other hand I wondered: I’ve never had fractures but I had an impression that they would hurt – and this one actually didn’t. I even pushed snow with a snow shovel and did many other things I haven’t seen any person with fractures doing.</div>
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political year has also started with full of activities. The first one was
implementation of our new Name law. Before that you had to show some evidence
for the officials that you are in the gender reassignment process. Now it is
possible to show the need for the change also in other ways. Now it is also
possible to have a mixture of male and female names – the combination possibly
needed by transvestites, some non-binary and intersex people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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registry office early in the morning 2<sup>nd</sup> of January – the earliest
possible time to do it. She wanted to have Tanja her official name with no male
name with it. It took some weeks before she got the first information about her
application. She was asked to give some more information about her gender
reassignment process – which was totally against the policy of the new law. So
we contacted the Ministry of Justice where we got a statement where it was made
clear that such requirement should not be used. The result of our action was
fast: Tanja got her new name the next day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I just added Anukatariina to my old male name. In my application I told that I
live mostly as Anukatariina but I still need my male identity in some special
situations. I told my story during the last few years and added lots of pictures
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working with kids with variety of gender and sexual orientation. We were mostly
well received and our material was very popular.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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authorities the reason for very obvious underestimated findings of hate crimes
concerning the sexual orientation or gender diversity are result of things as
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a internet site where different situations and ways to get help are described.
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We planned an option to have a link to this institution to make the victims
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Harri. Last time we were there together was nine years ago and my feelings were
very different: Then I was very nervous and thought a colleague who happened to
be there would definitely recognize me and I would be “outed” – well she
naturally didn’t recognize me and I lived closeted many years after the
incidence. Now there also were a colleague who didn’t notice me – so I naturally
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<br />Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-52352771831874214732019-01-03T22:32:00.000+02:002019-01-18T20:15:33.004+02:00A short story about the long Christmas 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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choose a sort of do nothing strategy. It included the Christmas time at a Spa
in Rakvere, Estonia. There we had almost five days to avoid any obligations:
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thing in the hotel Christmas was you just couldn’t hide from various versions
of Christmas carols in uninterrupted chain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However in the
Christmas evening I also played some of my versions, not very easily
identified, though...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a town of 15 000 inhabitants situated in the North East part of Estonia.
The district is mostly populated by Estonian Russians but Rakvere is mostly
Estonian speaking. Actually it is an old Estonian German city Wesenberg,
founded in 14<sup>th</sup> century. And of, course, there is an old German
castle that is blown up by Peter the Great – a very usual story in Estonia. The
ground of the area contains oil shale and therefore there are some mines for
that smoking stuff. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the city have remained the pre war feeling with well off houses along the
streets – nowadays only partly renovated. Of course there are the Soviet layer
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and grandchildren came for Christmas dinner. When we went shopping to get stuff
for it we noticed many Christmas things was quite cheap – we even got some orchids
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sittings, one for my and the other for my spouse’s offspring. The regime varied
a little but in both cases my nettle buckwheat wafers with Smetana and smoked
whitefish were included. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-64500266699935967872018-12-20T15:53:00.000+02:002019-01-18T20:15:11.435+02:00Before the Christmas 2018, ending the semester<br />
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the semester didn’t give anything special change to my life. However it was
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the beginning
of November I attended the Rainbow History Club organized by Seta. There we
heard stories of rainbow life and battle for the rights from the sixties. The
stories were a huge evidence to prove the importance of the human right work:
The situation has become better due to very hard and perseveringly work: First
decriminalization, then depathologization and finally legal equality – the latter
still being partly incomplete and in many ways also unimplemented in everyday
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This year I
was exceptionally deeply involved in TransHelsinki happening in November. The Trans
Support Centre hava gradually withdrawn from the organization of the event </span>because of the lack of the staff so someone had
to replace it. And this time it seemed it was me – with the help from many
other people, of course. But this is typical when things are done with voluntary resources - they just tend to gather for few persons. In a small core team we created planning platforms for the different events,
coordinated the overall structure, the Trans Community Seminar and the Candle
light event Transgender Day of Remembrance, remembering the trans people
murdered this year in the world. The task also involved details like catering, presenter
recruitment, seminar room reservation, AV system checks, communication with
police and the staff of House of Parliament. My person is not very promoter-like
and it took some extra energy to make all this during the spare time. So afterwards
I felt a bit tired and decided not to be that much the central person for organizing
TransHelsinki next year.<br />
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seemed the events went well, in spite of some kind of lack of audience. The
reason for the latter must be quite late and maybe also inadequate information –
things were too late ready to be well informed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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output was my presentation in the Trans Community Seminar where I considered
the reasons for the frustration of lads that are not very happy with the positive
development of the LGBTI rights. I concluded that in Finland he is sort of
endangered relic but on the other hand he has too much brothers in other
countries and we should really be aware of the new and well organized wave
containing both populist and fundamentalist religious origins and funds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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major political event was Seta representative assembly at the end of November.
This time it was in Tampere. The agenda was “normal”, new chair and some members
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mostly trans people. </span>I wonder whether it may be so because just now the trans
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was far from the city and the organizers have planned that the evening
happening would take place in the gay bar in the city. However we old ladies of
Dreamwear Club were too tired to go there so we had our own evening meeting
with a glass of water – the only thing that was available in the smoke and
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had to share my time between DWC Monday coffee evenings and my dance
rehearsals. The solution was I made the coffee table ready and left the place
when the event officially started. The situation was the same also in the case
of the last one which also was our “pikkujoulu”, Little Christmas. Some years
ago I used to bake the traditional Christmas pastry at the Seta kitchen. Since
they had the office reconstructed they have no oven so I had to do it at home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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semester has gone mostly as Anukatariina, the male days have been very rare
exceptions. I’ve always liked the interaction with the students the most but it
seems it has been even more pleasant part of my work. And the highlight of this
was the comment of a student in the middle of the laboratory rehearsals: “We
just want to tell you we like you very much as a teacher.” And yes, I like them
very much as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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some time to do other things than work and activism. I purchased a museum card
which allows me to visit a large selection of museums for free. So far I’ve
visited the national art museum Ateneum and a brand new gallery, Amos Rex with its light
installations. At Ateneum I hadn’t enough time to properly see all the sections
I want to see, but now I can go there again anytime it’s suitable for me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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activities have been rare. The only one was a musical The Kinky Boots. The performance
was excellent but the message of acceptance and non discrimination was
distorted by very pejorative joke about being a crossdresser – the crossdressing persons in
the musical are drag queens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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walked through a nearby mall when I was asked to turn a lucky dip. It was a
campaign of a gym at the mall and I got an invitation to a trying out week at
the gym. I chose the week I had some extra free time so I had an opportunity to
visit there three times. During my first time I even had a personal trainer who
introduced the fitness machines she thought I would need – I’ve never used such
devices. So during the last two times I could use them safely on my own. The
place was nice and situated perfectly to fit my schedule but the price for my
intensity of use was far too high so I decided just to say no for the offer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> But now I have some other ideas to get my body more fit, we will see...</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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semester my belly dance project had a sad ending: I had purchased a costume for
the performance, I’ve trained the choreography pretty well - and the week of
the last rehearsals and the performance the belly dance agenda changed to belly
problems. The other ladies did it well, but gosh I’d like to be there with
them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The year
2018 has been exceptionally warm and the mid October was still much above the
average temperatures. So when I
considered whether to change the winter tires the idea sounded silly in the
temperature of plus 17 Celsius. The idea sounded even sillier when the
consideration was should I need winter tires as we come back from Thessaloniki
where the temperature would be constantly over twenty degrees. I also looked at
the long term forecast and noticed the temperature would be over zero in the
night we would come back. So I didn’t change the tires.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And no, we
didn’t drive to Thessaloniki, we flew. The flight was a bit silly, first fly
over the destination to Athens and then fly backwards over the Aegean sea. And
we had quite a hurry, the check in was almost completed when we landed. However
we were guided straight to the gate via extra route – it seems Greeks are
masters of handling exception situations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy to get the connecting flight from Athens</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The first evening at the balcony of the hotel</td></tr>
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the Russian emperor Nikolai the First and married the Greek King Giorgios. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The hotel
is situated about two kilometres from the centre of the city. It is run by a
family, my travel bureau (= my spouse) prefers booking this kind of hotels to
support the local people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Thessaloniki
is the second-largest city in Greece, with over 1 million inhabitants in its
metropolitan area, and the capital of Greek Macedonia. It is situated by the
Aegean Sea. It is founded<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just after
Alexander the Great period and have lived Hellenistic , Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman
and finally the nowadays Greek periods. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The city became a part of Greece as late as
1912 after the war between Turkey and Greece. Then the big amount of population
was sort of swapped: The Turks living there for centuries had to go and the
Greeks who had lived in Anatolia area moved to town. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The town
has been damaged quite a lot during the various wars so the whole picture is a
mixture of old and new. The essential element is a Byzantine church, smaller
and bigger here and there. The archaeological excavations may be seen
everywhere, you just cannot build anything there without hitting something from
the ancient world. The remains of the old fortress system may be seen in the
White Tower by the sea and the bigger ruin area on the top of the hill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking to the city at the seaside</td></tr>
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morning we decided to get the overall of the city. So we walked by the sea to
the White Tower and took the Hoponhopoff through the city to the fortress hill.
On the hill also the old town is situated but opposite to many other towns it
is mostly for living and there is only very few shops and bars. We walked
through the ruins and old streets and admired the view to the town and the sea
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We took
another hoponhopoff to the city to have something to eat. We chose a fish
restaurant. In the menu I chose bream fillet. Bream is a very common fish in
Finnish lakes and also considerable tasty but very rarely available, mostly
because of its bony flesh. This one I was served was even tastier and without a
single bone! Later it turned out bream actually meant gilthead which actually
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evening we were invited to a concert by Iphigeneia. She is a friend of my
spouse from their time at the University in German and they haven’t met for
over thirty years. So Iphigeneia came to get us to the Concert Hall in her car.
When Iphigeneia and my spouse met it was like there wouldn’t have been any gap
in their friendship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The concert repertoire consisted of chamber music of a Russian-German composer Alfred Scnittke. Scnittke uses the musical material very economically and on the other hand he combines the late romantic and modern material opposing each others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to the forecast the next day was said to be the warmest during our visit so we
chose it for our beach trip. There aren’t any beaches very near Thessaloniki
but a bit further in the east there are a lot of beaches available. There are
three peninsulas east of the city with lots of sand and sun. The problem was we
had to use the bus and the bus station was about ten kilometres away from the
city, obviously because of a gigantic Ikea near it. Luckily Iphigeneia drove us
there, otherwise we would have to take a bus to Ikea and another to the bus
station!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the nearest peninsula. The bus had no hurry in getting there so we had a
marvellous opportunity to see Macedonian views. This part of the province had
quite small hills covered by olive trees, wineyards and fruit trees of
different kinds. The autumn colours in the fruit trees were from yellow to very
bright orange. I also spotted some artificially looking hills which I presumed
to be ancient tombs.</div>
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destination was a little village Kallithea on the eastern side of the
peninsula. The village situates<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>near the
sea lying down under the steep slope. The tourist season was over and there
were only few people in the village and on the beach. The wind was calm and the
waves very gentle so it was very pleasant just to relax in the sea. After
swimming we had a little sunbath. It was pleasant to shut the eyes and hear the
sound of diagonally entering waves wandering from the right ear to the left
ear. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the gentle waves of the Aegean Sea</td></tr>
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day we spent quite a lot of time in the Archaeological Museum. There we saw the
basic exhibition and special exhibition about the handicraft from the stone
ages to the Byzantine era. The Macedonian district is rich of many kinds of
reminiscences of the past. And it turned out I had been right during our bus
trip, the artificial looking hills really were tombs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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afternoon we were invited for a dinner to the home of Iphigeneia. She lives
with her 90 years old mother in the flat quite near our hotel. Because of Air
bnb boom she had lost her cottage in the same peninsula we just visited. And it
had just turned out she have to move from the flat they have hired the last 44 years
for almost similar plans of the landlord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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visit was prolonged to the evening, we had so much to talk about. The mother
turned out to be a very bright and civilized lady and she told us about the life
in Thessaloniki and other parts of Europe where she and her family have lived.
She also seemed to like me specially – once she had had two brothers and an old
closet full of wonderful old ladies costumes which they all three tried on when
they used to played as they were kids. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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day we still walked in the city to spot some historical places, such as the
main cathedral and an ancient forum area. Naturally we also made some shopping,
for example I updated my red handbag. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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took a taxi to the airport. We took some extra time to be in time and not to
hurry in any way. Unfortunately it didn’t help to be in time the whole trip:
The connecting flight from Munich to Helsinki was almost two hours late! So
when we arrived in Helsinki airport car park it was about 1.30 a.m. And despite
the forecast the temperature was below the zero and the car covered with frost.
Since we hadn’t winter tires I had to be extra careful in foggy places where
there was a danger of black ice on the surface of the road. But as you can see
we made it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-91629150369016258172018-10-10T22:27:00.000+03:002018-10-11T10:31:43.207+03:00Mixed fruit soup of something betweenfot<br />
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is a report of the period between the start of the semester and the autumn
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I have worked as myself most of the time, only the days I have customers outside of our organization I've made exceptions. The situation feels sort of natural for me and it seems it is regarded to be natural by my work environment as well.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since last
winter there has been the metro also in Espoo. It goes from the Iso Omena mall
in Matinkylä to Helsinki via several stations. For me it means the trip to
Helsinki takes about fifteen minutes longer than it used to be with a single
bus: Five to ten minutes more to get to Iso Omena and five to ten minutes more
from Iso Omena to Helsinki, depending the waiting time for the metro departure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A very early morning at the bus stop<br />
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So I have preferred use my bike instead of the metro. It is faster and naturally also healthier. Unfortunately my knee has been a little sore and there is quite a high uphill on the way to work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To solve the problem I have used a hybrid solution: Biking to the nearest train station, taking the bike to the train and biking to my work places from the station near them. It has turned out to be the fastest way and I’ve used the metro very seldom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Waiting for the train.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> There is some room for bikes and prams in the trains</o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The life of
part time lady is full of surprises and confusion. I was invited to health inspection
by an occupational health nurse. She was a new one and never met me. When I
went there properly in time I saw her through the open door, obviously looking
for a male customer to enter the corridor. Some minutes after my appointment
time she came out and seemingly annoyed shouted my name – she probably thought
it was another lad late…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She also sent me to blood test. The procedure was carried out by a bioanalyst with whom I chatted for some time before the official things. The first official thing was to check my info from my health insurance card. When doing it she literally dropped my card and began to claim it was a wrong one. I just replied it isn’t and that kind of confusion happens sometimes. Yet I was astonished my male voice didn't any bell to her. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> At the occupational health care station after causing some confusion</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
mushroom season in Finland has been excellent. In my forest the situation has
not been as good as it could have been. Actually the main season is
approximately a month late compared to an average year. Fortunately the weather
seems to continue exceptionally warm so I hope I can pick them longer than I
use to do normally.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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I have been lazy with my night life. There was an exception though: Some of my
friends organized a big happening with theme of seventies. Last time I attended
their show I accidently won the best costume price. This time I thought someone
else may win it but anyhow decided to dress up in the mood of seventies. When I
thought what to wear I tried to remember the variety of styles: Hippie, Abba
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was stopped 1969, though it was seen later in Finland. Finally I decided to
choose the casual seventies style. It naturally included trumpet jeans or pants
which I didn’t have. The casual colour of the decade was brown so I chose the
brown-green pleated skirt with dark brown tights and matching striped shirt
mimicking Marimekko shirt, a typical casual shirt that time. I also found a
pair of slippers with very thick heels in 70s style. Then I remembered the
girls used to colour their hair with henna colour and took a red-brown
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we were very active and because of it we got some extra financing from our
central organization Seta. The increased activity was carried out with old
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Pauliina. One of the aims was to tell both the students and the staff that it
is very possible to meet a student representing sexual or gender minority and
how to cope with it. It seemed the students were very busy with their
rehearsals but the staff stayed longer time with us. We were happy to give them
Seta material about this issue and on the other hand we had very fruitful
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another opportunity for lobbying my agenda when I was invited to give a lecture
about discrimination on basis of the gender diversity at work places. The
invitation came from the Trade Union Pro. So I told about the gender diversity,
about myself, about the survey we did two years ago and about the best
practices to avoid discrimination. The audience was very active and we had a
long talk about the issues after my lecture. It seems that these issues are still
quite unfamiliar to many people and there is still very much to be done. Anyway
I was very happy to have this opportunity to tell about things I know and
regard as very important. I have an intuition the main attitude has rapidly turned to non discriminative direction but it may gain some boost on knowledge and
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Lecturing at the Trade Union Pro session<br />
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Blogia voi kommentoida myös suomeksi.Anukatariina Saloheimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981377465536474811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830905785037215305.post-20936460373780700492018-09-14T18:43:00.000+03:002018-10-10T22:33:26.394+03:00Fall 2018 Semester Started<br />
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an exceptionally long and hot summer it was quite nice to start a new semester.
One thing that made it exceptionally pleasant was that I even waited for seeing
my colleagues after the wonderful spring semester with them. Actually we has a ”soft
start” which included some drama pedagogic drills visiting the cottage of one
of them and celebrating retirement of another. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Farewells to a just retired colleague<br />
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includes something else as well. However, I had done some preliminary work in
Summer and on the other hand I did so much in Spring so I have had rather light
start. The students I have met are all familiar with me and so far I had to
warn them only once that next time the lecturer would a dull male person...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dry summer had some consequences in my harvesting policy. The apple yield was
enormous and good quality and we also had an opportunity to have them as much
we wanted – which mean some 30 litres for juice and sauce. On the other hand
the chokeberry harvest was a bit more than a litre instead of the normal over ten
litres. I also skipped blueberry picking because of the dry forest and bought
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To me the most important harvest is naturally mushrooms. After the super dry summer the news started to spread that there would be a tremendous boletus edulis autumn so my spouse chased me to pick some for sauce. The result of the first trip was three Amanita virosas, the most poisonous mushrooms here – which I didn’t take.<br />
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lessons continue with our leader Mikaela who started with us last spring. The
choreography is in Egyptian rural style with walking sticks (No, we don’t just lean
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been rather active in politics. I’ve done preparative work for a proper
application note for the Name Law which comes into effect next year. The law
text is very poorly written and without additive instructions the officials can
do wrong and discriminative decisions concerning the name changes on the basis
of gender identity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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they claim, there is not enough evidence for the positive effects... and yet
the soon coming international classification ICD 11 will unite the categories binary
and non binary gender incongruence!! Of course there was a demonstration
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be impossible to see anything. Anyway the feeling in Kaivopuisto was nice, the
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situation to each others, not a typical situation in Finland. The other thing
was the warmth of the night whogch we call the tropical nights. It was so nice
there but has been far from nice in my house though. After waiting for the
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We had a plan to go there by train after flying
to Berlin. The flight seemed to go well... Still when I got my suitcase it had
a tape with a text: Security controlled. In the suitcase I found a note with a
message that the battery supply and also the extra battery of my camera had
been removed because of the danger of fire. I was astounded because I’ve
carried the same extra battery before and on the other hand there were a
battery in my camera and lap top and hundreds of batteries in the plane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We started the trip in the afternoon so we stayed the first night in Berlin. There we had a dinner with Jochen, a class mate of my spouse from her German period. We also walked a little around the Berlin Hauptbahnhof and parliament area along the river Spree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The second day we took a train to the Northern coast. The railroad led us through the former DDR countryside -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never been in former DDR area except East Berlin. We saw a bit shabby villages, wheat and corn fields and surprisingly amounts of cranes in the fields – I would rather expect storks. The train was rather slow so we had lots of time to observe the scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Our one was called Villa Elizabeth – almost every female name villas were available. From our glassed balcony we had a view to the sea and the old town of Sassnitz. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> A view from our balcony</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Some of the feminine villas</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When we had our first dinner at a nice restaurant in the old town area we had a wonderful background music played by blackcaps, my favourite singers accompanied by blackbirds. The sound of blackcap was a soundtrack of our entire visit to Ruegen.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;">Listening to the blackcap concert after my Bismark herring dinner</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The third day we hired electrical bikes and headed to Prora, a very specific place. It is situated along the beach and contains one of the longest building of the world. I was built by Hitler for the brave soldiers for their holidays but was never used in that purpose before the Soviet troops conquered the island. Later it was used by the DDR army. Nowadays part of the building is totally ruined, one part is used as a hostel and one part is reconstructed to luxus apartments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The backyard of the Prora complex<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The cycle path to Prora was pretty OK. except a passage near the harbour of Sassnitz where we had to pass the bridges with very narrow and dangerous looking paths. There were a road to avoid this passage but it had barriers, obviously made by the Nord Stream gas company for its own purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The bridge mentioned in the text.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We heard that in Finland the heat wave had arrived. In Ruegen we had a little rain – no too much to get us wet. The fourth day we took the train to Stralsund, an old Hanseatic town near Ruegen. The weather was still a bit colder so my spouse had to buy warmer pants instantly when we entered Stralsund. I was fine with my skirt and pantyhose.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We visited only the old part of Stralsund. It was full of old Hanseatic merchant houses, some monasteries and naturally cathedrals. The cathedrals were mostly in bad condition or under the construction – pretty much like we have seen in Estonia. It was sad to see how some depressive decades have slowed down the development compared to the Western parts of Germany. On the other hand some buildings looked quite well reconstructed and cozy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My style judge rejected my beach dress so I had to buy a new one.<br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0cm;">We chose Glowe North West to Sassnitz where we traveled through the wonderful and very traditional country side by bus. We went straight to the seaside from the bus stop and made s notice that there were lots of dogs swimming in the water – the thing that is normally forbidden on Finnish beaches. Later we found out we managed to choose the very section dedicated to dogs. But it didn’t bother us much so we stayed there. The water was warm enough and compared with the Finnish situation also blue green algae free.</span><span style="text-indent: 0cm;"> </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The sixth day the weather was not so cold and just perfect for our next destination, Jassmund National Park just North of Sassnitz. The place is famous of its beech forests and lime stone cliffs. A part of the cliff area is called Königsstuhl ("King's Chair"). The name is based on the story of the Swedish king Charles XII is commanding a sea battle against the Danes from this spot in 1715.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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find. There we were told that we could have had the batteries in our hand
baggage – the fact that seemed very confusing! But maybe the loose battery is
more in danger to get fire in the hold of the plane because the baggage there moves
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hot May June 2018 wasn’t equally hot. However there has been very little rain
so I had to use more water in my garden than during the whole last summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first half of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>month we also visited
the Pirkanmaa Pride in Tampere. We only attended the happenings of the parade
day on Saturday because it was still working during the week. The starting
place of the parade was a square at a mall. Originally the bosses of the mall
had refused to let it be used in such place due to “political nature” of the
Pride festive. They soon realized it was bad public relations politics and
turned their opinion. One of the reasons were positively the supportive opinion
of the Tampere city which actually owns the square. At the end the mall was
very helpful to co operate with the Pride organization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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carry our banderol wherever we march in the Pride parades. This time we had
some problems with it. We have two banderols but one of them has been lost
during the renovation of the Seta office in Helsinki last summer. Our second
one was in Turku and it had to be delivered to Tampere. The person who did the
delivery had difficulties in being in Tampere in time. Secondly I found out
that the banderol was without its sticks. So I had a half an hour to get the
new ones. There was a hardware store at the mall but the rack for the broom
sticks was empty. The personnel told there is another mall near this one with
another hardware store. So I ran there to notice just perfect sticks in the window
and took them to the cash desk .... to hear that they were rake sticks and sold
only with rakes ... so I bought the whole rakes and left the rake part there.
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of the parade went cross the city of Tampere but there were only quite few
people to watch it. The weather wasn’t very warm so I wore my overcoat most of
the time. The main happening took place in the park near the central square of
Tampere. There we were happy to hear the city of Tampere had many initiatives
to support LGBTI people: Our message has been heard. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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happenings in Tampere during that weekend the hotel prices were doubled or
tripled so we decided to skip the evening activities and drove home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first half of the month I also had my lecture to the staff of the multi cultural
support center for women, Monika naiset. The staff is also mostly multi cultural and
they wanted to hear about LGBTI and non discrimination issues. I had a meeting
beforehand with Hitomi Tabuchi one of the organiser of the event and we planned
the content of my presentation. I only had 45 minutes for my presentation and
it was quite compressed and full of information in spite of my efforts to focus
only to the main issues. So when I asked for some questions after the
presentation there was only very few of them – normally people tend to ask a
lot. Maybe there was too much information to digest in such a short period.
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pre fined was the Estonian National Museum. It was built in the place where
there was a Soviet airbase. The air base was strategically important so the
city of Tartu and its surrounding were closed from the outside world. The
people of Tartu were permitted to meet with friends and family once a year at a
facility outside Tartu, and were not allowed to talk about the air base or even
mention its name. The new museum building sort of rises up from the runway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the Dreamwear Club. The subject was non discriminative work places. The secretary-general
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event I attended was the Trans Day on Wednesday where I had a consultation stop
on the coming name law. It seemed the people weren’t very well aware about the
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to attend was “hearing” of Parliamentary LGBTI group. In Finland the LGBTI
issues have gone on in accelerating speed. For example in the year 2015 we
considered it would unrealistic to start a citizen initiative on the new trans
law. Now it seems it would be unnecessary: The huge majority of the parties
have a positive commitment on the issue – though they vary a bit in their
content. Only three conservative parties, one in the government are against it
so we wait for the parliamentary election next spring. One of the issue was
banning the so called conversion therapy which has been very difficult to make
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session there also were representatives from two of the conservative parties.
The first of them was very aware of the issue and promoted it very strongly.
She told about the difficulties in telling the facts to her fellow members of parliament,
partly due to lack of knowledge and partly due to lack of motivation to get it.
The other also was somehow willing to do something positive but it turned out
he totally missed the elements of the issue to form even a basic descent picture
of the issue. This notion made me think the MEPs should have some popularized
scientific lectures on the issues they make decisions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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attended the Amnesty trans law happening next day the feeling of the things
getting better grew stronger. The people who told about their life implied the
everyday environment has become easier and people less and less discriminative around
them. It seems that the awareness of the issue and normalisation of the thought
that someone near you might be trans has took its toll. That of course doesn’t
mean discrimination has totally disappeared. And the major problems are still the
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Pride the promotion of LGBTI was very obvious also in other ways. The Finnish
business world had woken up very strongly and the shops in Helsinki were full
of Pride products and both the many commercial and official building had their
rainbow flag. Some even complained the firms were just pink washing without a
proper LGBTI program. I thought every firm took part in its own way and so
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