In November I took part to two
political events. The first was TransHelsinki happening, especially the working
life seminar organized by our organization The DreamWearClub.
We had high class guests, including
the Finnish Ombudsman for Equality, the president of the Equality Advisory
Board of the Finnish Parliament and people from trade unions and national
employer organization. The issue was the discrimination at workplaces, especially
concerning the right to express one’s inner gender.
In Finland it is already forbidden
to stop an employee to wear clothes that feels best for the gender he/she
feels, except it is somehow regulated in a certain dress code. In Sweden even
this is forbidden, which was realized last summer: The train personnel was not
allowed to wear shorts even though it was too hot for long pants so they
decided to wear pants. The Finnish employers say there are certain reasons the
customers may not like personnel wearing “wrong clothes” but they seemed to be
reluctant to specify the cases. The legislation that is in preparation is
approximately the same that is already applied in Sweden. The
employers try to remove these issues the law which has less stringent
sanctions than the equality legislation.
After the seminar we went to snack
in a pub. We were lucky to get one, because it was Pikkujoulu
(“Little Christmas”) time and the restaurants were crowded. After that we went
to movies to see some trans shorts. The Movie Theater was the one
Kaurismäki brothers once owned and the feeling was still there…
At the Cinema with Hanna-Maria and Aija Salo,
the head secretary of Seta
the head secretary of Seta
After the movie we still went
to “L-world club” to have fun just among women.
The other political event was the
representative assembly of the Finnish LGBTIQ organization Seta. There were
both the official part and less official workshops. I chose the group leader
and transgender support centre workshops and think the choices were rather
good. And while it was a weekend, Saturday evening there were sauna evening, of
course. I skipped the sauna but had nice and interesting discussions with
numerous different GLBTIQ people.
The busy reperesentative
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