The Norwegian government doubles its financial support for the LGBTQAI community
This is a photo of Anette Trettebergstuen, the Norwegian Minister of Culture and Equality, presenting an interesting budget leak. The Norwegian government is adding 15 million Norwegian kroner to “the LGBTI pot”, including NOK 1 million to Oslo Pride (whose leader is Dan Bjørke, here seen with a trans flag.)
They are standing in front of the venues that were attacked on June 25 by a homophobic and transphobic terrorist. Two people were killed and many more wounded.
The increase in support for the Norwegian rainbow community is in response to that attack. Most Norwegian politicians have doubled down on their support for queer people.
As will be seen from the photo below, this also applies to transgender people. TERFs and other transphobes have not been able to stigmatize trans people in the same as in many other countries.
The photo is of the minister together with Christine Marie Jentoft, trans woman and representative of the LGBTQAI organization Fri (”Free”).
It is important to keep in mind that the transphobic politicians of the world — Putin, Belisario, Trump, Abbot and Orban included — may make a lot of noise and cause much harm, but they are not the only politicians out there. Many show active support for trans and queer people.
Iceland presents an LGBTI Action Program
By the way: The parliament of another Nordic country, Iceland, has adopted a new governmental LGBTI Action Program for the period of 2020–2025.
Iceland will, as Norway has already done, amend its hate speech and hate crime law, explicitly criminalizing hate speech on account of sex characteristics (sexual orientation and gender identity included).
The plan also announces that registration forms and identity documents where gender registration is required should be harmonized in order to make non-binary gender a registration option in addition to male and female.
The top photo is from a video published by Oslo Pride.
The second photo is from Christine Marie Jentoft’s twitter account.
