The MIT, Movimento Identita Trans, is a trans rights organisation on Via Polese and one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. It runs what it describes as the first self-managed health service for trans people anywhere.
The services are open to whoever needs them. There is the consultorio for trans health, a legal advice desk, housing and reception work for people in difficulty, a desk for LGBTIQA+ migrants named after Sarah Hegazi, and Via Luna, a harm reduction project for people doing sex work. The MIT also trains schools, health workers and public bodies.
It organises Divergenti, an international festival of trans cinema held in Bologna since 2008, which is one of very few of its kind anywhere. Much of the reason Bologna has the reputation it has with trans visitors starts at this address.
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