The reality of the SPECIALPLUS Community in Morocco: Confronting Violence with the Hope of Resistance

This field report is meant as a contribution from us to document the suffering of the SPECIALPLUS community members in Morocco, who encounter multiple and varied forms of discrimination and violence, from the verbal and psychological to the physical and social. This violence isn't limited to individual actions, instead it is the consequence of deeply rooted societal causes, supported by legal, social, and cultural frameworks that don't protect the rights of this community, but instead contributes to its marginalization and exclusion. We understand from our perspective the causes of violence through the following pillars: Homophobia, transphobia, racism, legal vacuum, social stigmatization and the lack of awareness-raising. In this report we don't stop at the diagnosis, but we offer a vision for changing the reality of the SPECIALPLUS community in Morocco based on our belief in the necessity of comprehensive liberation as an essential step in fighting violence and discrimination.