Stockholm Pride is the biggest pride festival within the Nordic countries and it's a week
of party, seminars, debates and for us it's very important that all the LGBT issues are
represented and discussed.
There's been a lot of discussions within Sweden about transgender issues the last year and
it's important for us that those issues are part of our program because still there's
a lot of people out there who doesn't know that there is an issue.
If you're reading on the net or something they're telling you it's about sex and when
you read about transgender people they're getting sex hard on by wearing women's dress
and undress like this all my life so it would be a marvellous way to do it but it's not.
On the other side rather because I think when you have a possibility to change to what you
want to be the sex thing is getting smaller and smaller so I mean that's the biggest misunderstanding.
People say that transgender people is a sexual issue and it means that if you're reading
about transvestite it's a male person who's getting dressed in women's clothes and getting
horny of this and that's totally wrong I mean it's the same stupid thing to say that black
people have got rhythm in the blood or gypsy people steal a lot it's something that societies
say to try to explain this different behavior because they don't really understand it so
I mean stop talking about the sexual thing and talking about how we're living and what's
it's okay to do and not to do.
Big difference I mean many transgender people coming out when they are 40, 45, 60 years
old and then they're already accepted by society somehow so I think what's happening now is
that young people starting to change when they're young and that's a big difference
I think then it's not so easy.
Well in basic if we look at the law we're quite protected today it's been a while but
then it's a discussion of how tolerant society is and that's a bit different too.
I think it's a big difference living in Stockholm for instance and then living in a small town
so it's a bit split view I should say.
I have this trans walk in Stockholm and I'm talking about history and we've been here
for all this time and just that and that's a good way to know as a young people you're
not unique, you're not alone, you've always been around.
I was born in the 50s in Poland, in the 60s and 70s Sweden for me was a symbol of freedom,
a symbol of equality and it was such an important element in my awareness.
I never had the opportunity to be in Sweden at that time and now it's finally this
opportunity and with great joy I came to Stockholm as an LGBT person because I know that it's
a country that has done a lot for equality and I can really feel free here.
I came here with this order to break down such a stereotype that prevails in Sweden and
in the world that Poland is a non-tolerant country.
I think that the work of the organization gave success and managed to get a mandate for
the future of LGBT in the Polish society.
Thank you so much for being here today and I'll see you in the next video.
Bye for now.
Thank you.
And here we have Anna Grodzka, who is a member of the parliament in Poland and she is the
most open transsexual member of the same which is as the Swedish Riksdag.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
