Counselling for Transgender
The Transgender Counselling Düsseldorf has been offering professional psychosocial and socio-legal counselling on all questions of transgender and transidentity since 2015.
The offer, funded by the city of Düsseldorf, opens up a space for self-reflection, enables one's own "understanding" and expands perspectives and options for action. The supportive and appreciative counselling is also open to transgender children and their parents. In addition to people with transgender issues, the counselling is also aimed at relatives, couples and partners. Medical professionals, psychotherapists, social workers and lawyers who come into contact with the transgender issue professionally are also in the right place here.
Further focal points are the empowerment of transgender people, educational work and the creation of group offers.
TRANS*BERATUNG DÜSSELDORF | www.transberatung-duesseldorf.de
Services for Rainbow families
Rainbow families are families in which at least one parent is either same-sex loving or transgender. They have the same needs as other families, want to be recognised and valued and not have to explain and justify themselves. However, there can already be problems with the desire to have children in a same-sex partnership, and the so-called stepchild adoption also causes problems for many parents.
Since 2017, Düsseldorf has had a centre for rainbow families. It advises on questions concerning the desire to have children, foster care and adoption, offers help with challenges in everyday family life or with separation and divorce, but also when experiences of discrimination occur. In addition to counselling, the focus is on group offers as well as information and training events for professionals, teachers and educators.
FACHSTELLE REGENBOGENFAMILIEN | www.awo-duesseldorf.de
You are welcome
The PRADI network (formerly "You're Welcome - Mashallah!") of Aidshilfe NRW is aimed at gay and other male migrants and refugees who have sex with men.
PRADI stands for prevention, anti-discrimination work and integration. On the one hand, it offers counselling on safer sex, health, testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. On the other hand, there is support when migrants experience discrimination, for example in asylum accommodation, at work or within the family. An important part of the work is integration. There is help for men* who are new in Germany and do not yet know exactly where to go, what rights they have or who they can approach.
Integration also means getting to know other people and learning from each other. The Düsseldorf PRADI group meets every Wednesday at 7 pm at the AWO Düsseldorf (Liststr. 2) to exchange ideas.
NETZWERK PRADI NRW | www.pradi-nrw.com
IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD, homophobia and transphobia are still widespread today. Currently, homosexuals face the death penalty in 15 countries. In 45 countries, people were murdered in 2019 because of their homosexuality or transsexuality. Russia ranks 161st in a comparison of over 200 countries, with the Russian republic of Chechnya coming out worst in the Spartacus Gay Travel Index 2020.
In Europe, too, the fight for equality and acceptance remains an important task. A look at neighbouring Poland, where numerous municipalities have recently declared themselves "LGBT-free zones", shows this very clearly. The LGBTIQ+ Forum Düsseldorf therefore calls for more commitment also on the part of the state capital Düsseldorf in the context of the city partnerships with Moscow and Warsaw.
Information on the queer communities in Düsseldorf's partner cities: