In this column we recount everything that was said in the arguments of the prosecution and INADI in the final stretch of the trial for the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán, and about the right to access health with the letter of a bisexual woman to her former gynecologist.
“What do you mean you’re dating a woman? Why?” the gynecologist asked her. And she replied with this letter: “I swear, doctor, I’ve never felt so horribly exposed and judged.”
At the tenth hearing, prosecutor Ariel Yapur and Mariela Labozzetta, head of the Specialized Prosecutor's Unit for Violence against Women and LGBTIQ people (UFEM), asked for Marino to be sentenced to life imprisonment for the transvesticide, a crime motivated by gender prejudice, of Diana Sacayán.
Thirty-five years ago, the journal Science first named the Human Immune Deficiency Virus, HIV. From that May 20, 1983, to this May 20, 2018, the progress made is evident in the fact that I am now writing this. But it is not enough.
“My first official act of cross-dressing wasn’t going out in public dressed as a woman, legally speaking. My first act of cross-dressing was through writing,” the author writes. Upward, downward, and outward, the text expands with the voraciousness of a cannibalistic plant, daring to speak, to think. Even to remain silent.
The ninth hearing of the trial for the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán focused on the arguments of the legal representatives of the Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI), the plaintiff in the case
In our latest news column on You Can't Live on Love, we talked about INADI's argument in the trial for the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán; about the reparation for a trans woman who survived the dictatorship; and about the interview we did with Joe Lemonge, among other topics.
The National Secretariat for Children and Adolescents (SNNA) of Paraguay issued a statement rejecting “the use of children and adolescents” in the Kiss-In Festival, held this Thursday in Asunción, in commemoration of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. They warn that the festival organizers could face fines or prison sentences.
By Lucas Gutiérrez. The seven assailants who attacked Jonathan Castellari in December 2017 for being gay have been prosecuted for aggravated assault with the aggravating circumstance of hate based on sexual orientation. This was confirmed to Presentes by Gastón Llopart, the young man's lawyer. The decision was made by the National Court…
The government of Santa Fe granted a pension to a transgender woman, recognizing that she was persecuted during the dictatorship for her gender identity. "This pension is a historical reparation," said Carolina Boetti.
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