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The trial of Higui de Jesús, accused of self-defense, will be in April 2019.
The trial of Eva Analía Higui de Jesús now has a start date: it will be in April 2019. “The first hearing will be on April 23, 2019 at 9 a.m., in the San Martín Courts,” reported her lawyer, Gabriela Chiqui Conder, a member of the Lawyers' Association of the Argentine Republic.
Television and trans identity: the five forms of violence every day
By Quimey Ramos Last Monday, I was interviewed on the program "Involucrados" on the América channel, about the trans character played by Maite Lanata in the Telefé series "100 Days to Fall in Love." During the program, we had a discussion with the panelists, especially with Luis Ventura, a television journalist who has been entrenched in television for…
Column #24 Present at You Can't Live on Love 2018
We talked about the trans and travesti employment quota bill that was introduced in the Argentine Congress; Hannah Gadsby's monologue Nanette; and our interview with Paraguayan director Marcelo Martinessi. We also discussed what trans activist Alejandra Grange told us about trans people's access to healthcare.
Married transgender people will need to dissolve their marriage to change their legal name and gender.
The Joint Committee of Congress unanimously approved an amendment to the Gender Identity Law stipulating that a change of legal name and gender will automatically dissolve a marriage. It also establishes that such cases will be processed through a family court.
#LivingWithHIV Bicho and I and the words: "How would you prefer I call you?"
When it comes to putting this into words, it's time to take responsibility: for the many possibilities, the intersections, and the variations that exist. There are as many as there are people.
#LivingWithHIV Bicho and I and the words: "How would you prefer I call you?"
When it comes to putting this into words, it's time to take responsibility: for the many possibilities, the intersections, and the variations that exist. There are as many as there are people.
Paraguay: Center opens to report violence and discrimination against transgender people
The organization Panambí, which defends the rights of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people in Paraguay, opened its center for receiving complaints of cases of violence and discrimination against trans people in Asunción this week.
Following criticism, Scarlet Johansson will not play a trans man
Scarlett Johansson has dropped out of the role of a transgender criminal following a strong backlash against her casting, the actress announced in an interview published Friday by Out Magazine. The actress was set to star in “Rub and Tug,” the story of Dante “Tex” Gill, a massage parlor operator and pimp who…
Letter from a trans activist to her grandmother: "These are times of injustice"
In a society that has historically denied us its love, in a difficult context for the trans community where militancy and activism erode our bodies, facing the enormous burden and consequences of visibility, the pain that seems to be the only possible reality, thinking about affective bonds can be a caress.