Photo: Presentes Agency. LGBTI leaders rejected the Mendoza provincial government's initiative to create a database of people from that community: in addition to being discriminatory and persecutory, they consider it a setback in terms of diversity rights. According to a press release from the Ministry of Health, Social Development and…
Paloma died in a public hospital bed from a stroke caused by a blow. This "blow," according to the complaint filed by the association TravesChile (which includes Paloma's own testimony), was the result of a transphobic attack.
In this installment of the comic strip that tells in the first person what it's like to live with HIV, Bicho and I dismantle one of the strongest definitions with our *bicho dictionary*.
Since adolescence, I've wondered how my trans identity relates to beauty. Why my body was and is rarely seen as beautiful. I was always taught that being trans—being obviously trans—meant being ugly.
On Saturday, February 17, in the early morning, Milagros “Mili” Duarte (37 years old), a trans woman studying Social Work at the National University Arturo Jauretche (UNAJ) and a sex worker in Florencio Varela, was savagely beaten by a client when she tried to collect payment for her services at her home in the San Jorge neighborhood.
In a small office at the Sótero del Río Hospital, located in Puente Alto, one of the most populous neighborhoods in Santiago, are the files of the first users of the "Trans Poli", a project that was born last year to assist trans people, but was not made official until the beginning of this month.
The public trial for the transphobic murder of human rights activist Diana Sacayán, killed in October 2015 in Buenos Aires, begins on March 12.
In this video, the plaintiffs, the prosecution, and activists explain why this is a historic trial and ask for everyone's support.
The University of Buenos Aires reported that today "the Department of Legal Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine removed the accused teacher, after listening to the explanations she gave to the Faculty authorities about the homophobic and discriminatory content provided in a class.
[READ ALSO: Chile: Transphobic and homophobic beatings by prison guards denounced in Biobío prison] “We also informed the UN that Chile lacks a healthcare protocol to safeguard the rights of women, bisexuals, and lesbians that addresses their specific realities. Care is conceived, designed, and implemented only for heterosexual women,”…
Following the circulation of a highly homophobic slide on social media yesterday, the Student Center of the Faculty of Medicine (CECIM) at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) filed a complaint today with the Department of Violence and Discrimination Reporting to condemn the slide and request an investigation into what occurred during the summer lecture of the legal medicine course on February 15th. They also ask anyone who witnessed the lecture to come to the Nuevo Espacio table on Monday, February 19th, to support the complaint.
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