The National Trans Youth Council invites you to join us in just three weeks on our third annual GSA Day for Gender Justice. On our third GSA Day 4 Gender Justice, November 16, 2018, we are excited to launch the TRUTH Nine Point Platform!
The TRUTH nine point platform centers the social movements that our team understands to be the foundation of our liberation and calls into action the intersecting forms of resistance; our manifesto will guide our work as young trans and non-binary organizers and we offer this guide to GSA organizers worldwide.
TRUTH Nine Point Platform from TRUTH on Vimeo.
National Trans Youth Council: Nine Point Platform
We, the National TRUTH Council of 2017-18, draft this document in the radical tradition of creating manifests in order to define our revolution and achieve liberation. The manifesto was inspired by and builds upon the Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Program, the Young Lord’s 12 Point Program and Platform, and the Third World Gay Revolution. The manifesto is not a static document, but a living one, so that it may be updated and changed to reflect the council’s increasing understanding of the systems of oppression and the changes in the language we use to describe both ourselves and these systems.
We are in a moment which calls for us to bravely and ferociously fight for our communal liberation. In this moment, in the name of our transgender and gender nonconforming ancestors who struggled before us, in our blood, bones, and our spirits, we claim our right to existence and our future victory with these frameworks to guide our own work and the work of future generations on our collective, continuous journey towards liberation.
We Call for the Right to Self-Determination and Control of Our Destinies: We as trans youth have the right to control our narratives, spaces, and all aspects of our lives. Resources to achieve this trans empowerment must be made more readily accessible and available.
We Call for the Abolition of the Police, ICE, Borders and the Judicial System: We demand abolition! Abolition of the police, abolition of borders and ICE, abolition of the current punishment-based justice system. We demand for our communities to be empowered to take care of themselves, for no borders, for rehabilitation and healing justice. Abolition is a process that we are committed to fight for.
We Call for an End to Disposability Politics and a Commitment to Transformative Justice: We believe in establishing a culture of accountability that is transformative in nature and creates opportunity for growth. We must take responsibility and hold space for the collective wellbeing and unity of our people.
We Call for an End of the Cisgender Heterosexual Patriarchy: We recognize that the current state of the world centralizes the stories of white cisgender heterosexual men. We call for the end of a social structure that separates or determines the value of people on gender expectations from historical Europe. We demand that queer and/or TGNC people no longer be oppressed by these frameworks, institutions, and their enablers.
We call for Decolonization and Reparations for all Indigenous and Black Peoples: We call for the payment of reparations that are owed and the reclamation of cultural practices by the communities from which they originated. We call for the active and complacent perpetrators of cultural appropriation and colonization to be held accountable and to recognize the privilege they maintain through the oppression of others.
We Call for Comprehensive Education that Reflects our Histories and Needs: We call for the use of informed educational practices that provide access to curriculum to help build opportunities for historically erased peoples. We call for free and non-compulsory education for all ages and for all access levels.
We Call for an End to Global White Supremacy: We call for the end of this racist system that profits off of the devaluing of Black people, Indigenous people and all other people of color. We believe in exposing the history of global white supremacy and it’s discriminatory practices.
We Call for Land Justice and Environmental Justice: We call for the recognition and Indigenous reclamation of stolen lands. We call for conscious creation through choosing to stay local and sustainable, remembering that our actions last for generations.
We Invite our Comrades, Accomplices and Allies to Join Us: We invite our comrades in struggle who align with our principles, including those who have yet to self-determine their relationship to the struggle, to join us in solidarity, coalition, and liberation — remembering the revolution is a relationship.
Grandview Heights High School Gender-Sexuality Alliance
Queers & Allies, Sarasota High School
Design Thinking Academy Pride Club
TechBoston Academy Gender & Sexuality Alliance
JFK Pride Club, John F Kennedy Middle College High
Lavender Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange (LLACE)
Maumelle High Genders & Sexuality Alliance
IL GSA Network, Illinois Safe Schools Alliance
QTPOC, University of Vermont
Champlain Include+, Champlain College