The trans community of Florencio Varela experienced a historic day. The City Council unanimously approved a trans employment quota, establishing that 1% of positions within the municipality and the private sector must be filled by transgender people. Like the provincial law, the ordinance is named after the murdered trans activist, Diana Amancay Sacayán.
Are you asking me to confirm what you think or to learn more about the topic? What happens when I give you a different answer than you expected? In 2018, we're still hearing the phrases that were used to describe the newborn HIV virus back in the 80s and 90s.
Mariana Sepúlveda and Yren Rotela are human rights activists and leaders of Panambí, an organization that defends and promotes the rights of transgender people. Paraguay does not have a gender identity law, but they successfully obtained a court order granting them legal name changes. However, the Paraguayan Public Prosecutor's Office appealed in both cases, and they are now awaiting a ruling. Here they share their stories, two tales of struggle.
The case of Nicole Saavedra Bahamondes, a young lesbian murdered almost two years ago, is stalled. Her family met with the National Prosecutor in a meeting attended by lesbian and feminist organizations.
There, she talks about what she suffered during her adolescence because of menstruating and transitioning. At 14, she began her transition, and at 16, she shaved her head and changed her name. Before taking hormone blockers at 17, the model menstruated every month. Binary…
Dissident sexualities made their presence felt at the fourth Argentine feminist demonstration #NiUnaMenos that took place in downtown Buenos Aires.
For the fourth consecutive year, hundreds of thousands of people will take to the streets in Argentina with the slogan #NiUnaMenos (Not One Less) to protest against femicides, transfemicides, travesticides, and all forms of sexist violence. The slogans of this demonstration are: Without legal abortion, there is no #NiUnaMenos; Against the IMF, austerity, and debt; We want to be alive, free, and debt-free.
The government of the province of Mendoza will have to pay $500,000 in moral damages to a young trans woman who was abused by two police officers when she was 17 years old, in January 2011. This was ordered by a ruling of the Civil Court No. 16.
She is 31 years old and the first transgender skater accepted by the Argentine Speed Skating Confederation and the third athlete competing in the female category. Today, she seeks to raise awareness of the transgender struggle in San Pedro, where she was born and raised.
The "little injection" is part of that buggy ritual, those many rituals that have become part of our daily lives over the years. And even though we've normalized it, it's still hard to swallow. Like the Azitronavir pill, which is huge and still bothers us. Just because we don't complain doesn't mean it doesn't bother us. We're always looking for a cure.
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