In context with “16 days of activism against gender-based violence”, which the United Nations celebrates every year from 25th November to 10th December. This year it coincides with the great interest the world is witnessing in climate changes and the work to reach measures and procedures to adapt to them. Colorful world launches “Transgender Without a Bank” campaign which comes to highlight the social and legislative challenges facing transgender people, and stand as an obstacle against their empowerment at the social and economic levels.
According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which recognizes the need to involve men and women on an equal footing in making local policies and measures to confront climate changes, which must respond to the needs and requirements of gender and its relationship to climate change.
From this point, developing solutions in order to apply justice and equality to confront climate changes and adapt to them necessarily requires adopting a comprehensive vision of the concepts of sexuality, sexual and gender pluralism to ensure the achievement of justice and equal opportunities for all people.
Sexual minorities in general, and transgender people in particular, strive to achieve the main goals, and to achieve equality and sustainable development, which means promoting social, economic and political inclusion for all people, ensuring equal opportunities, removing all discriminatory legislation, procedures and practices, and adopting policies to ensure access to universal social protection.
The discriminatory conditions in which sexual minorities live in many countries around the globe as a result of societal norms and culture, and the absence of legislation that recognizes sexual and gender pluralism, as well as excluding practices, exclusion, stigmatization and shame practiced against them, prevent the achievements of the three strategies of the World Bank Group represented in: improving human talent, increasing economic opportunities, and strengthening the voices of marginalized groups for more sustainable and inclusive societies to achieve green development that is able to be resilient in front of climate change.
So the campaign “Transgender Without a Bank” seeks to shed light on the social and legislative obstacles that prevent the empowerment of transgender people at the social, economic and political levels, those obstacles that make their sexual and gender transit without a bank, and to work on and come out with suggestions that contribute to improving their conditions through their experiences during the journey of sexual and gender transit.