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…
Joe Lemonge is a trans man from the city of Santa Elena, Entre Ríos. In October 2016, he was attacked for the fourth time by a group of men who were harassing him. He defended himself and is now on trial for attempted murder.
In a pre-election atmosphere tainted by hate speech from ultraconservative parties, it's difficult to find openly gay, lesbian, trans, or bisexual candidates on the party lists for the general elections this Sunday, April 22, in Paraguay. But there are exceptions, such as Yren Rotela, the first trans woman to be a candidate in…
Montevideo's Trans Art Week took place between April 9th and 15th. This initiative aims to give visibility to trans people and foster connections for their artistic and cultural development.
By Víctor Hugo Robles In Ñuñoa, in the eastern part of Santiago, Chile, there is a school where transgender children can feel supported and continue their studies. Faced with uncertainty and not knowing how to navigate daily educational situations, the country's first transgender school, named after…
March 31, 2018, International Transgender Day of Visibility, will be remembered not only for the resilient struggle of a community discriminated against and plagued by violence, but also for the gestures of historical redress taking place in Latin America. The inauguration of the first transgender mausoleum in Santiago's General Cemetery, an initiative of the legendary organization TravesChile, funded by the International Trans Fund, is the most moving, clear, and eloquent example.
Natalia endured the harassment until one day she went to work and was refused entry. She then contacted a lawyer and filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination, which she won at the beginning of the month: the company has to compensate her.
I never heard anyone shout “hetero” as an insult. Now, “faggot” is commonplace. All of us who distanced ourselves from the privileges of heterosexuality learned to transform insults into pride. Those of us who pulse with a rhythm that clashes with the choreography of heteronormativity were disqualified from that board of the “Game of Normal Life” and had to learn to survive by other rules. So today, when the National Secretariat of Human Rights tweets that “heterosexuality is part of sexual diversity,” the scars left on me by not being that heterosexual, and, according to the government, diverse sexuality, still burn.
Cordoban filmmaker Daniel Tortosa explains why his documentary "Los Maricones" (which can be viewed in its entirety here) addresses the repression of gay and trans people during the last dictatorship, but it doesn't end there. Released in 2016, the testimonies recover marginalized voices and warn of the return of punitivism and police harassment of dissident sexual identities.
This week, national news portals, newspapers and television programs gave extensive coverage to what they described as a “gender scam”, “abuse” or “deception” and a “legal loophole” in the case of Sergia Lazarovich, a woman from Tucumán who resides in Salta, an AFIP employee, who changed her registered status, according to her coworkers, “to receive her pension earlier”.
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