By Víctor Hugo Robles. Katty Fontey is the president of TravesChile, a senior trans woman actively involved in social and community life. She was born in a time when sexual difference was unthinkable in her town and social class, and so she decided to migrate to the big city, escaping her father's anger and…
Transvestite and trans activists and militants, feminist groups and sexual dissidents demonstrated this Monday afternoon at the door of the Courts, in Paraná, to demand the acquittal of Joe Lemonge, the young trans man sentenced to five years and six months in prison after being considered "material author of attempted homicide".
In Uruguay, the trans population experiences multiple situations of vulnerability while the comprehensive law for trans people remains in the drawers of Parliament.
By Esteban Marchand, from Lima. The data from the first online survey of LGBTI people conducted by the Peruvian government is now available, and LGBTQ+ organizations have shared their opinions on the results. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), the survey's objective was to generate data on the LGBTI population "that allows..."
Putting an end to the violence against our identities and what constitutes them is the challenge we want to establish within the feminist movement, but no longer as a form of accompaniment but by adopting our struggle as our own, pronouncing the issue on the social agenda.
Various studies conducted in Argentina – by both civil society and the national government – confirm that 98% of transvestite and transgender people do not have formal employment and that at least 90% are or have been involved in prostitution, an imposed destiny that perpetuates inequality, repression, and…
DJA, 65, was murdered, beaten and stabbed twice. On April 4, he was found lying in bed in his home in Béccar, in the San Isidro district of Buenos Aires province. Two days later, a 29-year-old man was arrested for the crime. A perfume was the key piece of evidence leading to the alleged perpetrator. Authorities are calling for the murder to be investigated as a hate crime.
We reviewed the parties' proposals and the candidates' statements during the campaign to find out what they propose regarding LGBTI people.
The National Transportation Regulatory Commission (CNRT) confirmed to Presentes that driver Leonardo Benítez was suspended for 30 days today while an investigation is conducted. The suspension is not for discrimination but for "offending a passenger" and was carried out after the intervention of the Ombudsman's Office of the City of Buenos Aires. Benítez resigned after the announcement.
For days now, the Argentine media has been dramatizing the scandal surrounding pedophilia rings within football club dormitories, where the team and its colors pale in comparison to the story. A player in the under-14 league broke down in front of the dormitory's therapist and recounted abuse and sexual exploitation. This revelation immediately sparked criminal complaints, hours upon hours of sensationalist television coverage, and public shaming of several journalists and figures in the entertainment industry.
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