“Without trans women, there is no one less”: less than six months later and in light of the recent acts of violence against trans women and transvestites, the LOTO group (Organized Trans Freedom and Pride) is calling for a new march to demand compliance with the Gender Identity Law, to ask for a trans job quota law and to say Enough of transvesticide and transfemicide.
The website "Abortion Helpline: More Information, Fewer Risks," run by the organization Lesbians and Feminists, had been online for ten years and provided information on how to have an abortion using pills. It was taken down yesterday without prior notice. The reason given: "for promoting drug use." The organization is demanding that the website be reinstated immediately.
Claudio Caserta, the most listened-to radio host in Córdoba, verbally attacked the actress and presenter after she received an award for outstanding female figure for her work on the show "Explosivos": "How can a transvestite be more important than a woman?" the FM100 announcer said. We spoke with her.
This afternoon at Lavalle and Libertad, in Tribunales, dozens of diversity activists and friends accompanied Mariana Gómez, the woman mistreated and arrested by the police last October for kissing his wife Rocío Girat, who today appealed her prosecution.
Two years after the flight of trans activist Lohana Berkins, more than 500 people remembered her in front of the National Congress in a tribute with music, poems and words of love from her companions in life and struggle
Today marks two years since the death of Lohana Berkins, the iconic trans activist and human rights leader from Argentina. This afternoon, at 6 PM, a tribute will be held in Plaza de los Dos Congresos in Buenos Aires.
We trans women know about feminism because we betrayed the patriarchy twice. First, by leaving it, and second, by attacking it. Very few of us are surviving; we're dying younger and younger.
Mariana Gómez, arrested and beaten by the police while kissing his wife Rocío Girat in the Constitución neighborhood, was prosecuted for resisting authority and causing injuries.
The public trial for the transvesticide of Argentine activist Diana Amancay Sacayán has been scheduled for next week (hearing dates still to be confirmed) and for weeks the Justice for Diana Sacayán Commission and activists have been working on different campaigns to give it public awareness.
Keili González, a trans activist from Entre Ríos, was first insulted by a legislator and then subjected to media violence for participating in the Pride March. In this opinion piece, she recounts part of her story and challenges the media: “It’s time the media focused on how to include our voices and perspectives, how to understand what sexual diversity is, and how to do so without stigmatizing or ridiculing us.”
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