Jennifer Gabriela Aranda was born with male external genitalia. During puberty, when her body began to develop female, it was discovered that her internal genitalia were female. Her father and a doctor pressured her into testosterone treatment, but she stopped taking it. Today, she is 54 years old and an activist.
October 26th is Intersex Awareness Day, commemorating the first public demonstration by intersex people. It took place in 1996 in Boston, USA, to demand bodily autonomy and protest against birth defects. The term intersex encompasses a wide range of natural variations in the body.
Of the 17,197 news stories monitored in 2016, only thirteen mentioned the LGBT community, and just five cited sources. None reported on the increase in transphobic murders, which, according to figures recorded by LGBTQ+ organizations, reached 16 that year. This is revealed in a report by the Ombudsman for Audiovisual Communication Services.
Zelimkhan Bakaev, a rising star in Russian youth music, has been missing since August 8. He traveled to Chechnya that day for his sister's wedding, which he never reached. LGBTQ+ and human rights organizations believe he was detained and killed during the so-called "anti-gay purges."
“Homosexuality is unnatural and a disease.” That’s what a teacher told her fifth-year high school students at Pablo Apóstol School in Tucumán. The teenagers recorded her, and the video went viral on social media.
Casa Trans Zuleymi in Lima (Peru) is a transit center where trans people who are homeless, migrants or victims of violence can find guidance, information and a shoulder to lean on.
Brazil leads the ranking of countries with the highest rate of murders of LGBT people in the Americas, according to a report by the NGO Grupo Gay de Bahia. From the beginning of the year until September 22, 227 murders of LGBT people were recorded: 125 of them were transphobic murders. This figure represents 1.05 victims per day. In 2016, there were 343 homicides, of which 43 percent were transphobic murders.
A 23-year-old man is in custody for the murder of Azul Montoro, a trans woman who was stabbed 18 times in downtown Córdoba. The latest evidence links him to the crime "conclusively." This was confirmed to this agency by the Córdoba Prosecutor's Office No. 12, which is handling the investigation, headed by Guillermo González.
Although she's not the first and doesn't appear on the cover, the media reported as news that French trans model Inés Rau graces the centerfold of the new issue of Playboy magazine. Inclusion, objectification, or sensationalism?
With four albums under their belt (Kumbia nena!, La gran estafa del tropipunk, Pecados Tropicales and Canta y no llores) and after ten years of formation, Kumbia Queers is a band of women that redefined the concept of punk by adding cumbia rhythms.
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