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.
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.
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