The conservative and anti-rights advance in Latin America this year encountered organized and tenacious resistance from LGBT people, who continue to fight for their rights. Here are some of the good news stories we shared in 2019.

The Gender Identity Law has come into effect in Chile

After five years of discussion, the Gender Identity Law (LIG) finally came into effect.

Uruguay's trans law: reparations pensions will begin to be paid

Approximately 30 subsidies of 12,400 pesos each were approved.

After 4 years, the transvestite trans job quota law was regulated in the province of Buenos Aires

It establishes that the public sector of the province must employ at least 1% transvestite and trans people.

A bill seeks to criminalize discrimination against LGBT people in Guatemala.

Emilia Schneider, trans student leader: “We lost our fear of repression and fought for our rights”

The first trans president of the Federation of Students of the University of Chile (Fech) takes stock of the protests that are shaking the country.

A law to protect the human rights of intersex people

The initiative was presented in the Senate and proposes that medical interventions that do not pose a risk to health or life be consented to by the people whose bodies are involved.

Paraguayan justice has convicted a transfemicide for the first time

The Sentencing Court of the city of Luque (10 km from Asunción) declared Blas Enrique Amarilla guilty of the murder of Romina Vargas, and applied the maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.

Chronicle and photos: First Pride March of the slums and plurinational

This is how the first plurinational LGBTTIQ+ trans Pride march in the slums was experienced, convened by the feminist assembly of Villa 31 and 31 bis in Retiro.

A home for LGBT+ seniors: “We no longer want to be invisible”

Laetus Vitae means “Joyful Life” in Latin and is the name that Samantha Flores, an 88-year-old trans activist, chose to found a Day Center for LGBT+ seniors in Mexico City.

The dream of a shelter for trans women in Peru has become a reality

The Trans House of East Lima has three objectives: to perform HIV tests on all those who come to its facilities, to register acts of violence experienced by trans women, and to provide empowerment workshops.

A job board on social media that seeks to break down stigmas

A job board that uses social media as a platform to showcase the abilities of trans people. 

The province of Santa Fe approved the transvestite-transgender employment quota

Santa Fe became the fifth province in the country to approve the trans/travesti job quota this Thursday.

A trans activist arrived at the Paraguayan Supreme Court to change her name

Paraguayan trans activist Mariana Sepúlveda began a legal battle years ago to change her name on her official documents. A positive outcome would set a historic precedent.

Mexico: Judge approves identity change for trans people without going to trial

A court in Chiapas, Mexico, ruled that transgender men and women can change their gender identity without a trial, because the current law violated constitutional principles.

Trans Dad and Mom: The Story of the Argentine Family That Became a Comic Book

The life of Karen Bruselario and Alexis Taborda, the first Argentine trans man to conceive his daughter, is part of the Revealed Histories Collection of Aguará Colectivo Editorial, which was presented at the National Library in Buenos Aires.

A historic day for the LGBTI community in Peru before the March

Hundreds of Peruvians belonging to the LGBTI population entered Plaza Bolívar and extended the multicolored flags of sexual and gender diversity, an event considered historic.

The story of Tito, the trans boy from Mar del Plata who rectified his birth certificate

On Tuesday, May 14th, at the civil registry in Mar del Plata, the birth certificate of Tito, a five-year-old transgender child, was amended. This is the step prior to issuing an ID card that reflects the gender identity he has expressed since he began speaking. 

Camila's last night, a trans woman persecuted by gangs and murdered by the police.

Camila was a 29-year-old Salvadoran trans woman. Her death at the hands of three police officers is the first transfemicide case to reach the courts in El Salvador.