On the raid against Casa Kuà

It is simply hypocritical: a Berlin policy that polishes the image of the queer community in Berlin. After the attack on the CSD, it rained lip service. The instrumental relationship was already obvious. The racist rhetoric and the drowning of our grief and dismay in gibberish about Western, liberal values ​​was almost unbearable.
That was only 3 months ago.
This attack by the city against its queers is further proof of how worthless the confessions of any politicians and bureaucrats are. An attack on our health is an attack on our life. That doesn't scare us. The fact that politicians are hypocritical assholes is nothing new. There is no point in remaining indignant about it. It is clear to us: we can only counter an attack on our structures like this through organization.

The experience as a trans person in the health system is characterized by being repeatedly sent away, rejected and put on waiting lists - for hormones that cis people can easily get. Many of the other treatments that many trans people need are simply not covered by health insurance companies. It is clear that health care reform will further exacerbate these conditions.

This system is not just grueling, but also blatantly denying. Non-binary trans people are denied the right to hormone treatments. Without German health insurance involved, you won't get any treatment. So people without health insurance are left to fend for themselves. – And racist connections make the system even more destructive for BIPoC.

Added to this is the capitalist organization of drug production. Supply chains are characterized by single points of failure. And every few years you find yourself stranded because the hormones you take are not available.

We have no other choice. We have to take our health into our own hands - and together we can do it. Despite what health care is perverted to be, under the unholy trinity of capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism, it needs community. DIY hormone therapies and treatments with shared knowledge about our bodies also simply work better.

With this deep conviction, we will stand by our structures and our friends.

Under any government, the state will attack our self-government. With this action, Black and Red announces the anti-queer sentiment that we can expect from even more right-wing governments. Part of this is also the increasing crackdown on ongoing events. The aim is to terrorize and intimidate. It also fits in with the state's emphasis on structural procedures.
We know this from the Palestine Congress 2024 and also saw it recently in Hanover. A funeral ceremony was held there in the most disgusting manner, during which those who died in the fight for a free and self-governing Kurdistan were mourned.
As Berliners, we also see the search as part of the wave of house searches and investigative tantrums by the Berlin police that have targeted anarchists this year.

This raid is a further attack against self-organized life and those who do not remain silent in the face of the capitalist-produced climate crisis, exploitation of people and the earth or the shift to the right in society.
But this raid also marks a turning point at which, in addition to the shitty, inhumane conditions that queers are subjected to by the state, open repression comes again.

Our greatest weapon is and remains solidarity. We won't let this become a mere phrase. Nothing will stop us from caring and supporting each other. We will resolutely defend our self-government.

Take care of each other, organize yourselves - and support the dolls

In love and anger

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