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Politician worries about queer Ukraine refugees in Bavaria: Country accommodation "not a good place"

2022-04-04T19:43:55.228Z


Politician worries about queer Ukraine refugees in Bavaria: Country accommodation "not a good place" Created: 04/04/2022, 21:30 By: Nikolas Pelke The 29-year-old SPD member of the Bundestag Jan Plobner from Altdorf near Nuremberg wants to accommodate queer refugees from the Ukraine not in smaller towns but in large cities like Munich. © SCHOBERFOTO Franconian SPD MP Jan Plobner is concerned ab


Politician worries about queer Ukraine refugees in Bavaria: Country accommodation "not a good place"

Created: 04/04/2022, 21:30

By: Nikolas Pelke

The 29-year-old SPD member of the Bundestag Jan Plobner from Altdorf near Nuremberg wants to accommodate queer refugees from the Ukraine not in smaller towns but in large cities like Munich.

© SCHOBERFOTO

Franconian SPD MP Jan Plobner is concerned about queer refugees from Ukraine.

Their lives are in danger in their home country.

He sees collective accommodation in the country as problematic.

Altdorf - As a 29-year-old registrar from Franconia, Jan Plobner made the leap to Berlin to become a member of parliament.

The young SPD member of the Bundestag from Altdorf near Nuremberg in Middle Franconia is currently particularly concerned about queer refugees from the war zone.

Ukraine refugees in Nuremberg: gay Ukrainians at the front?

According to Plobner, people between the ages of 16 and 60 with a male gender entry in their passport are no longer allowed to leave Ukraine.

The danger: Gay men could be drafted directly into the military at the border.

Even trans women – i.e. men who want to become a woman with the help of hormone preparations, for example – are affected by the current difficulties when leaving their home country.

Even HIV-positive people, whose survival is dependent on medication, could be drafted into national defense and sent to the front line to defend their homeland in no time at all.

Ukrainian trans women fear for life and limb

"There are also massive problems at the checkpoints that the Russian troops have set up all over Ukraine and that refugees have to pass through," reports Plobner.

Here, too, transsexual women in particular would have to reckon with “an acute danger to life and limb”.

"And this despite the fact that, according to the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention for the Protection of the Civilian Population in the Event of War explicitly also apply to transwomen." According to international wartime law, these non-binary people should be treated as women and not as men.

Humanitarian corridors must be open to transsexual women even if the name and gender entry in the official documents has not yet been changed.

Queer Ukraine refugees: There is even a threat of targeted killings

According to Plobner, these special problems of queer refugees are currently neglected in the political debate.

"It is important to emphasize that in addition to the highly traumatic situations in Ukraine, queer people experience massive hostility towards queers, up to and including targeted killings, also by unleashed nationalist forces in Ukraine, by the Russian invasion troops and by the authorities in neighboring countries .

So we are dealing with a massively traumatized group of people here, ”emphasizes the SPD member of the Bundestag from Middle Franconia.

Smaller towns 'not a good place' for queer refugees

After the escape, the difficulties in Germany would continue for queer Ukraine.

"Collective accommodation in smaller towns is not a good place for queer people from Ukraine," says Plobner.

Separate accommodations with connections to the queer community, for example in big cities like Munich, are better, says Plobner, who openly admits his homosexuality and was elected deputy spokesman for queer politics by the SPD parliamentary group.

"My strong focus on queer people in Ukraine has nothing to do with the fact that I'm not interested in other people or issues," emphasizes the gay registrar from Franconia.

His colleagues in the Bundestag would deal with other perspectives on the war so that a comprehensive and detailed policy for all groups of people in this delicate situation could succeed.

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Source: merkur

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