The government of the province of Mendoza will have to pay $500,000 in moral damages to a young trans woman who was abused by two police officers when she was 17 years old, in January 2011. This was ordered by a ruling of the Civil Court No. 16.
She is 31 years old and the first transgender skater accepted by the Argentine Speed Skating Confederation and the third athlete competing in the female category. Today, she seeks to raise awareness of the transgender struggle in San Pedro, where she was born and raised.
In this column we recount everything that was said in the arguments of the prosecution and INADI in the final stretch of the trial for the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán, and about the right to access health with the letter of a bisexual woman to her former gynecologist.
“My first official act of cross-dressing wasn’t going out in public dressed as a woman, legally speaking. My first act of cross-dressing was through writing,” the author writes. Upward, downward, and outward, the text expands with the voraciousness of a cannibalistic plant, daring to speak, to think. Even to remain silent.
In our latest news column on You Can't Live on Love, we talked about INADI's argument in the trial for the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán; about the reparation for a trans woman who survived the dictatorship; and about the interview we did with Joe Lemonge, among other topics.
Two weeks after being sentenced to five and a half years in prison for “attempted homicide” for defending himself against his attackers, Joe Lemonge, a 25-year-old trans man from Entre Ríos, who had long been harassed by three neighbors, arrived in Buenos Aires. With the support of LGBTQ+ activists, he was able to leave Santa Elena, a town of 17,000 inhabitants where he had lived and suffered his entire life.
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…
One week after Joe Lemonge's conviction, LGBT activists mobilized in front of the National Congress to demand his acquittal and denounce the discriminatory actions of Judge Cristina Lía Vandembroucke and Prosecutor Santiago Alfieri.
By Florencia Capella. Screenplay: Ana Fornaro and María Eugenia Ludueña.
We discussed everything that happened at the seventh hearing of the trial for the transphobic murder of Diana Sacayán. We also covered the hearing that convicted Joe Lamonge, a trans man accused of attempted murder, and the ongoing demands for justice in the province of Entre Ríos, among other topics.
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