By Quimey Ramos. Last Monday, I was interviewed on the program "Involucrados" on América channel, regarding the trans character played by Maite Lanata in the Telefé series "100 Days to Fall in Love." During the program, we had a heated exchange with the panelists, mainly with Luis Ventura, an entertainment journalist who has been entrenched in television for…
The organization Panambí, which defends the rights of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people in Paraguay, opened its center for receiving complaints of cases of violence and discrimination against trans people in Asunción this week.
Scarlett Johansson has dropped out of the role of a transgender criminal following a strong backlash against her casting, the actress announced in an interview published Friday by Out Magazine. The actress was set to star in “Rub and Tug,” the story of Dante “Tex” Gill, a massage parlor operator and pimp who…
By Fernando Reyes, from Comayagua. The body of Roxana Hernández was laid to rest in the city of Comayagua, Honduras, on Sunday, July 8. Roxana was a transgender woman of Honduran origin who accompanied the caravan of Central American migrants to the United States in early 2018 seeking asylum. Like many…
Paraguay lacks gender identity laws, and these therapies are not offered in the health system either, so it is believed that the scope of the WHO reclassification will be even more limited in this country, where access to health for transvestites and trans people faces many barriers.
Paraguay lacks gender identity laws, and these therapies are not offered in the health system either, so it is believed that the scope of the WHO reclassification will be even more limited in this country, where access to health for transvestites and trans people faces many barriers.
On June 28 - International LGBTIQ+ Pride Day - transvestite and trans organizations call on everyone to participate in the third national march "Stop transvesticide and transfemicide."
After a legal action brought by the organization TravesChile was rejected, a new criminal complaint was filed against Pablo Andrés Plaza Barra, suspected of killing Paloma on February 14. At 74 years old, Paloma was the oldest transgender person in Chile, and her colleagues allege she was murdered with a blow to the head. The plaintiff will be her son, represented by lawyer Marcela Herrera Luque of the NGO Defensoría Popular (Popular Defense).
Daniela Gutiérrez, 49, died on Monday. Her family alleges that the hospital refused to admit her. Trans and gender-diverse activists say this is not an isolated case. They also denounce media violence, citing the publication of false information by local media outlets and their failure to comply with the gender identity law.
The World Health Organization (WHO) published on Monday, June 18, the new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), which will be debated at the General Assembly in May 2019 for adoption by member states. It will come into effect on January 1, 2022. Transsexualism (code HA4Z) is no longer listed under the heading "mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders."
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