Thank you for lending your voice to Sakris’ call for legal gender recognition in Finland and for his protection through your campaigning as part of BRAVE and Write for Rights 2017.
Sakris has campaigned alongside Amnesty and took part in decisions about advocacy, campaigning and communication around his own case, but also in relation to the work done on legal gender recognition in Finland. He has also worked with Amnesty to improve his security situation and that of his family and has managed to build a support network.
Sakris told us that the visibility of his case and the media attention has had an impact on how he is perceived: ‘I’m less of a token or strange object and more of an individual who happens to be trans, and other things beside that.’