Sport must respect trans people: another law was needed in Argentina
The law passed in the Province of Buenos Aires originated with Saira Millaqueo, a trans hockey player from Bahía Blanca, who took legal action to be accepted as a professional.
The law passed in the Province of Buenos Aires originated with Saira Millaqueo, a trans hockey player from Bahía Blanca, who took legal action to be accepted as a professional.
The initiative proposes that medical interventions that do not pose a risk to health or life should be consented to by the people whose bodies are involved.
The 2018 Pride March in Buenos Aires brought together 400,000 people, in a celebration with slogans against austerity measures, repression, and the deaths of transvestites and trans people.
The province of Chaco made history this afternoon by unanimously approving the "Lohana Berkinks-Diana Sacayán" transvestite-trans job quota project.
Today in La Plata, the exhibition “Transitares. Dissident, Political, Poetic and Visual Journeys,” created by trans artists, opens. It will feature artworks, photography, documentary films, and even a police archive documenting the persecution of the LGBT community by security forces.
From New York, almost nonstop, came Sara Ramirez - an actress known especially for her role as Dr. Callie Torres in the series Grey's Anatomy - and Chase Strangio, a trans activist and lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Two hundred people are participating in the Diana Sacayán Open Chair, which was launched on Friday, November 2nd at the Faculty of Psychology of the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMDP).
For the first time in Latin America, a civil registry office has amended the birth certificates of two non-binary individuals, removing any gender designation. The Mendoza civil registry made this unprecedented decision on Friday, November 2nd. This sets a precedent in accordance with the Gender Identity Law passed in 2012.
The anti-rights groups calling themselves “pro-life”—an alliance of Catholics and Evangelicals created to stop the bill to legalize abortion—demonstrated yesterday in Buenos Aires and some other cities against the Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) law. Among their demands, they stated their intention to repeal the Gender Identity Law and expressed their opposition to all LGBT rights.
This happened between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 11, but Micaela has not yet been able to file any complaint, even though she went to the market several times to talk to the people in the administration and the shops.