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.
The civil registry will offer a third option for registering intersex people. The decision stemmed from a court ruling. Now Parliament must create a law.
The Paraguayan Prosecutor's Office charged performer Bruno Almada Comas with alleged "exhibitionist acts" after he participated in an LGBTI festival in Asunción on May 17, on the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.
"For most media outlets, our transvestite or trans identity is disposable and ridiculable," writes Violeta Alegre.
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