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Translation - Letter to Schwulenberatung Berlin regarding violence & discrimination in first LGBT - Refugee Asylum of the City

[Annotation: This is an automatic translation for the moment and will be improved in some days]

Dear persons of the gay counseling (”Schwulenberatung”), dear people of the district office Treptow Köpenick, dear people of the LAF, as well as the NGO human rights groups ATME e.V. and Antigenitalist Offensive, dear human rights lawyer M.B*., Unfortunately, the situation in the so-called "LGBT Refugeeheim" in the *** str. XX in Berlin, even after our complaints not significantly improved. [Note: Our friend was u.a. with violent men in a room, she was u.a. harassed by social workers, suffered from sleep deprivation, anxiety, etc.] To give an insight into what happened, I will describe the happenings in bullet points: - Our friend P. complained for months about your momentous accommodation in the "LGBT home" in Treptow-Köpenick. She was there with men in a room, these would z.T. act violently against them.

On several occasions articulated criticism of the accommodation and the desire to accommodate in another room was in most (all?) Cases of home management and social workers in pressure on them and other attempts to silence them. ("Find yourself an apartment, you only disturb us here", "show us which apartments you have looked at this week", "this person is not allowed in this room, this room is only for 'biological women' [sic! ] "). In the presence of our friends from the AGO Berlin was confirmed by the social worker A. in a discriminatory manner that our friend was due to transphober / genitalist criteria with [violent!] Men in a room. ("There are reasons why we have housed her with men"). In addition to unsettle the woman, the social workers of the home have in recent weeks to make it to our friend to make believe that it is not at the persons stationed in the room z.T. men, but all of them are "trans women". ("They're all women like you, why are you complaining?" "How do you know they're men?" "You see - you're the one who acts badly and thinks you're discriminating here, not us") In addition, her complaints about the nightly volume of people in the room until late at night, because she was suffering from permanent insomnia, fell asleep with me and could not go to school for a long time (she got direct medical reports, because you immediately saw that their psychological and health condition was miserable by the accommodation) ignored by the social workers, dubbed or her for weeks, over more than a month, false hopes for an immediate accommodation in a non-violent woman and single room, which ultimately not, not even after our complaints, were complied with.

In addition, social workers confronted her and forced her to talk to them, even though she said that she did not want to do so at the time. intimidated and asked to speak no criticism or demands on the home more. We have statements that point to a regularity of such measures in other homeowners. Our friend is very suffering from the consequences of housing, esp. The physical violence and threats of violence against her, symptoms are u.a. Nightmares, severe shaking, crying, anxiety, insomnia, suicidal thoughts, depression, inability to attend school. - It was also particularly drastic that the men brought with her were i.d.R. until night at four or five did not sleep, on the other hand is required by her to go to a school to learn German. Because of this, and because of the inadequate care and counseling offered by gay counseling, the home and social workers, she was afraid to fly away from school and lose her asylum and be sent back to her country of origin, also because a teacher said there had "who is missing for more than 10 days, whether with or without a certificate, gets immediately kicked from school". - Out of sympathy and because of the situation / her state of health due to sleep deprivation was always extremely tense, I let the woman sleep in my apartment and slept on those days elsewhere, which was increasingly becoming a problem for me to cope with my own everyday life. She slept in the last weeks, since about 1 ½ months, before that less often, often with me or friends and co-activists of our NGO group. Z.T. she also slept with men who then sexually harassed her ("still better than at home with these men who are loud and violent").

Also, misunderstandings were made among her and residents of the home, ia. in their room, you are interpreted as "racist utterances" and used against them, although we know that our girlfriend has firmly rejected racism and has even in the past committed and expressed anti-fascist views. Thus, a roommate felt in the home n. Discriminated against their statements, because P. after their request, the window in the room not immediately opened / closed (?) And have patterned them several times longer. The roommate interpreted this as racism and complained to the social workers. which in turn put extra massive pressure on our friend.

- Another roommate was introduced to me, who stated that she had been assaulted and bloody beaten up by her housemaids half a year ago in the home, whereupon the home management, with the support of the social workers, only wanted to react with a thrown out on the street the next day Cover up the case or protect yourself from criticism. The previously wg. Escape reasons badly traumatized, anxiety-disturbed and depressed woman live only in the accommodation only because they have repeatedly called the police and have resisted with hands and feet against this blatant Rauswurfsversuch. In further discussions (including with the home management) we (our group, I was not directly present, but my friends) found that the counseling and care offered by this severely anxiety-disturbed, traumatized and depressed woman continued (for over 2 years). It is so bad that no one cares about their frequently formulated urgent needs for counseling / petitioning on civil status and first name change, their applications for genital adjustment surgery, their lack of psychological and psychotherapeutic support (which would also be essential for these applications), so that these were largely unsuccessful (due in part to undisclosed counseling services and the failure to translate important letters and documents, although an in-house interpreter [!!!] was missed) and the woman remained isolated, depressed and with no prospect of any improvement in her condition and with the fear, abobe n, spending their lives mostly in a darkened single room in this home. Amongst other things she had applied for the reimbursement of a genital altering surgery from the health insurance company with the help of a translator, which was refused because of non-compliance with the time limits. This happened because no one had translated their letters, nobody went to their legal counseling with the woman suffering from a strong social phobia, no one helped her get a bill for the legal advice, no one told her what she needed to do To achieve the reimbursement, no one had developed with her an adequate strategy to solve her legal and medical problems.

Therefore, friends from our activist group went with this woman in recent weeks to various counseling services, including. the legal advice in the Yorckstaße, the advice center GLADT, the advice center Les Migras, as well as to physicians and mediated also dates and inquiries to psychotherapeutic practices and advice centers wg. Indications to genital-altering measures, support / assessment of the change of name etc. Currently (about 3 weeks) every working day (Mon - Fri.) someone from our group during the day for several hours been busy, one of the women from the home at u.a. Courses on legal advice, doctor's office, lawyer, psychotherapy, judicial office of the District Office Treptow-Köpenick, or similar. to accompany them, because they would not have been able to express themselves there adequately, nor can be advised. It became clear to us that the women we had accompanied for months, perhaps since they arrived at the home, lacked essential counseling, competent care, education and mental support to consciously and purposefully improve their chances of a decent life without discriminating documents medical care, problems of integration, hopelessness, unmanageability of their legal and financial / asylum-related situation and possibly some one-time counseling offers were conveyed, but then they were not continued (among others by missing an interpreting person, not translating documents / invitations / deadline suggestions), which by no means accommodated women or (as unilaterally articulated by the home management !!) their alleged "unwillingness" [sic!] is to be charged. We expressly want to point out that these tasks are not our tasks and the gay counseling [note: she is the bearer of the home and is paid for by the state], as well as the social workers in the home and the home management are responsible for ensuring that all (! !!) people in this home in their urgent concerns after ua the receipt of non-discriminatory documents (i.e. a change of first name and personal status), health-promoting medical measures (hormones, genital and other body-altering measures, voice therapy, blood tests, etc.) and all other essential measures for mental and physical health. They are paid for that. We will not and will not have the opportunity to accompany, advise and care for women for longer. If the health care situation does not change immediately, women will not be able to contest their asylum procedures or asylum procedures (in one case), nor will they be able to petition for an urgently-indicated genital altering surgery, thus losing any chance of improvement in their blatant miserable mental and social condition, which I would like to describe as clearly worrying.

We would like to express our horror that in a so-called "LGBT home", which is publicly unilaterally celebrated as a positive example of humane accommodation among multiple discriminators of suffering refugees, not even the most basic and self-evident needs of under genitalist discrimination (false names and gender entries due genital sexism in state and legal systems, etc.), and so-called "trans women" are denied the right to appropriate treatment and care (legal, psychological / pastoral, medical, translating, non-discriminatory), instead people in the home Workers who openly discriminate against women with non-normative female genitalia, including outsiders !! We therefore call for an immediate takeover of these not by us as activist NGOs, but those paid for by the state, essential support and counseling support measures and the respective urgently needed presence of persons with sufficient language skills to translate the counseling and writing respectively , We would also like to point out that we the leaflets, jobs and flyers in the home regarding the education and mediation offer on topics such as legal advice, medical measures, protection against discrimination, protection against other violence, civil status and first name changes, translations, help to Hartz IV issues are inadequate and, especially given the fact that counseling centers, support and care by the social workers and the home management themselves are not taught even after calls, it is urgently necessary to change this lack of information in the home to the housed there the opportunity to enable a decent life without discrimination, medical care difficulties and help with problems and violence.

- In addition, there was a conversation between activists of our group and a now relocated, also very suffering from the consequences of poor housing in the home and the psychoterror by social workers Transmannes from Russia, the u.a. on record stated that he "came to this home as a psychologically healthy person and came out as a mental wreck because of the conditions there." He stated that, despite immense difficulties, he had done everything to move to another home and now he was extremely happy to live somewhere else because he had been intimidated, discriminated against and harassed (the people who work there). Although he expressed great interest in contributing through statements and a report to a change in the conditions in this home, but he did not know whether he was psychologically able to do so. - When our friend and co-activist SEL *, who was present at our two home-based meetings and the conversation with social worker "A." in the home, and was always objective, respectful, and cooperative, wanted to visit the home earlier this week, showed when you register at the bottom of the security room (you have to register with ID, if you want to go to the home, it will record visit times, name and address, which you have to sign), an unknown man with glasses and beard on them and gave her house without giving reasons. I would like to criticize this renewed intimidation attempt by home and gay counseling and urge the home management and the gay counseling to repeal the ban immediately. - In addition, the gay advice responded each time to our letters in which we the states. under which our friends live, described: We have received their message, but refuse us to the allegations described therein. For privacy reasons, we can not give any further information. Nevertheless, we forwarded the complaint to LAF Quality Management / Complaints Management for further clarification, with which we discuss the way forward. Yours sincerely, (…)" Then nothing happened anymore. We also call for improved and independent quality assurance with regard to the psychological, social and medical situation of the people accommodated in the home and the possibility, in the case of u.a. Discrimination, intimidation and ignorance of articulated key needs n. Counseling, medical / psychotherapeutic care, legal support, etc. by social workers and / or home management or gay counseling should be addressed directly to independent entities or persons within the home, e.g. on certain days. Should gay advocacy, which was also described as difficult, uncooperative and ignorant to any criticism of their lack of care by a counselor in our counseling, continue to be incompetent and insensitive to the exercise of their mental health care mission social inclusion and promoting the opportunities for a decent life of the people housed in their homes, we call for an early change of the institution of this home.

We also point to the importance of the case, because this home is the first in Berlin its role model role model. We are shocked by the idea of expanding such conditions and alleged "non-jurisdictions" to all future homes. Yours sincerely, Sunan A. *, Zara Paz, S. *, SEL * and friends * Names and addresses shortened or changed

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