In Chile, there is no gender identity law. The main arguments in Parliament against it focus on transgender children. The Transitar Foundation supports these children and their families in all aspects of their lives. Its director, Niki Raveau, recounts here the symbolic act of renewing their identity documents to sign with their chosen names. And to continue fighting for visibility. By Niki Raveau Photos: Courtesy of the Transitar Foundation Last week, Transitar to the Maipú Civil Registry to renew our ID cards. The children submitted updated photos and signed with their chosen names. I took the opportunity to change mine because it was already happening that they weren't accepting it. It's a symbolic gesture in the face of the institutions' delay. We will do it once a year. In any case, we move forward with or without laws or ministries. Building community and being VISIBLE strengthens us. In this field (social demands), only what is seen exists. Regarding early childhood (pre-14), what's important isn't a piece of plastic with a legally recognized name, but rather education and community building. For now, there's no Gender Identity Law for minors, and that's not only due to the easily criticized malice and parliamentary stupidity: it's because many adults and self-proclaimed champions have made it their agenda to "fight" for the rights of children they don't even know, to speak for them, or to decide that the best thing is to hide them or reduce them to caricatures.

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Organizational ego and an inability to negotiate are also to blame. As for the young people in Transitar, more than one was left unable to access even a simple summer job, just because the bureaucratic plastic document still says whatever it is. An absurd and pathetic situation. The 14-18 age group urgently needs a Gender Identity Law so they can work (not to be included in the cis-issue: to work because it is a right and a tool). And those 14 and younger need space to be heard in their own words. Not to be used as activist slogans. Space to share and learn. Space for THEM to teach us, decrepit old women.

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Because more than "girls with penises and boys with vaginas," there are children with their own ideas. Children whose gender expressions we obsolete adults can't even begin to understand. Children who don't live in a "brutal" reality, nor under the sway of fear because they have more than one name. What's truly frightening and brutalizing is all the convenient and victimizing blather. As for my ID card, it's useless in the practical world. It's just a blather-Dadaist ID card, period. A photograph of the absurd. But it's also a beautiful record of the day we went to say, as always: we exist, we are together, and we are growing in number.