Report on the first 12 months of the Foundation's work
We invite you to familiarize yourself with the results of the first year (September 2021 - September 2022) of our work:
- First and foremost, we helped individual people with their transitions - benefiting
- 193 transgender people
- 23 parents
- We created in Szczecin
- in-person support groups
- a safe space
- Equality Marches
- We organized three
- We supported another five organizationally as partners or co-organizers.
- Our foundation was the initiator and main organizer of the First National Day of Transgender Visibility
- In addition, many other educational campaigns, demonstrations and other forms of action - details in the report
Full annual report 2022/2023
Report on the situation of LGBTQ+ people in West Pomerania (2021)
We invite you to read the report, based on a study conducted in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in 2021 on a sample of 1074 people and expanded with in-depth interviews. This is the first regional diagnosis of the situation of LGBTQ+ people in Poland conducted on such a scale and also the first one financed 90% from local government funds.
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Researchers from the University of Szczecin: Dr. Barbara Chojnacka and Dr. Edyta Sielicka, and Mgr. Monika Pacyfka Tichy, currently the president of the Lambda Polska Foundation, participated in the implementation of the study. In the month of its finalization, another national study by Lambda Warszawa and the Campaign Against Homophobia was published, created in cooperation with researchers from the University of Warsaw. Over 32,000 people participated in this study conducted at the turn of 2019 and 2020. Its results turn out to be highly consistent with the data obtained in this regional study. KPH reports are prepared every five years. The one from 2021 was special because it was the first since the openly homo-, bi- and transphobic government came to power in Poland. By comparing its results with the previous one, it was possible to see the devastation that the actions of these authorities had on the lives and health of people with minority psychosexual and gender identities. The study is available for free in the article on the KPH website
Information about the dramatic situation of LGBT+ people in 2015-2023 was superimposed on reports of the collapse of the mental health care system for children and adolescents and the rapidly increasing number of suicides. In 2011, 195 suicide attempts were recorded in Poland among people under 18, in 2017 - 730, in 2021 - 1339, and since 2022 this number has remained above two thousand. We emphasize that we are only talking about recorded attempts, i.e. registered by the police. According to suicidologists, for every recorded attempt, there are 100-200 attempts that did not make it into the statistics. Suicide is the most common cause of death of children in Poland, more common than cancer or a traffic accident.
The Marshal's Office of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, which supports LGBTQ+ people, in 2021 came up with the initiative to conduct a regional study of the situation of LGBTQ+ people and announced a competition for the implementation of such a public task in the field of counteracting domestic violence. In the political situation at that time, during the rule of PiS, the only hope for discriminated minorities were local governments. It is they, based on the openness and empathy of urban and regional communities, who can create, to the best of their ability, a friendly climate for everyone, regardless of the differences that do not divide us, people, but enrich us.