About Transgender Limburg
Transgender Limburg (TGL) is the organised interest group for trans people in Limburg. TGL is a point of a contact within Limburg, to increase visibility of transgender people as a group within local and regional politics. Our goal is to improve the position of transgender people within society. We pursue a gender-diverse society and aim for the emancipation of trans people. Unfortunately, many trans people still face discrimination on a daily basis.
Transgender people encounter a number of issues that are less relevant to cisgender members of the LGBTQIA+ community. For example, trans people experience different forms of discrimination. They are also not explicitly protected by law within our constitution.
Statistically, trans people are at greater risk for unemployment, loneliness, disability and attempted suicide. In other words, trans people encounter different problems than cisgender people within the LGBTQIA+ community.
That is why COC has set up a separate working group dedicated to transgender people. COC wants to raise more awareness for these issues and wants to devote itself to fight against the exclusion and discrimination of trans people.
What does Transgender Limburg do?
Transgender Limburg organises a meeting in Maastricht for trans people and their loved ones on every third Friday of the month. These meetings create an opportunity to meet new people, but also to tackle issues together. Participants can help each other by sharing their personal experiences.
Furthermore, Transgender Limburg also supports the meetings of “Ouders van Transgender Personen (parents of transgender people)” in Sittard.
Transgender Limburg also helps other working groups within COC Limburg by offering training and workshops so the other working groups can use this knowledge to better support trans people who attend their activities.
Contact
To get in contact with Transgender Limburg, please have a look at our facebook pagina or send an e-mail to transgender [@] coclimburg.nl
Meetings will also be announced in the TGL section of our COC Limburg discord.
