With fury, with a hip-hop cadence, Sara Hebe makes herself visible, wears the green scarf of legal abortion, waves the LGBTI pride flag, aims, shoots, sings. A defiant feminist, she has been making music for almost ten years, but perhaps she is best known for her song "El Marginal," the theme song of last year's hit TV show that won the Martín Fierro de Oro award and became one of Netflix's most popular series.
The contrast between the cold, public building room and the emotion of those paying tribute marked the atmosphere of the homage to Diana Sacayán in the Chamber of Deputies. Today marked two years since the murder of the Argentine trans activist, and her family, friends, and fellow activists gathered to remember her and demand justice for her transphobic murder.
Today at 10 a.m., Michelle Suárez was sworn in as Uruguay's first transgender senator. She took office as the alternate for Senator Marcos Carámbula, of the ruling left-wing coalition, Frente Amplio. She is a lawyer, an LGBT activist, and is 33 years old.
Never metaphorical, Rodríguez Larreta's gender police carry out a rigorous disciplinary control over the population of transvestites and trans women, a true census turned into judicial and police statistics.
Sheyla Brítez, a 20-year-old trans woman, was stabbed ten times and suffered a cut to her forehead on Friday night. Trans women are denouncing an increase in violence against them, fueled by the rise of fundamentalist rhetoric.
A man stabbed a trans woman in an area near the campus of the National University of Asunción (UNA), in the town of San Lorenzo (Greater Asunción).
“‘We’re not going to treat him here’: the phrase hit us like a hammer blow of reality.” This is how the letter released Wednesday by the family of Gonzalo, the 13-year-old trans boy whom the Children’s Hospital of La Plata refused to treat with hormone therapy, begins. Although there has been no official statement yet, the institution maintains that its intention all along was to request time to better train the medical team.
A trans South American artist and hummingbird, poet, folk singer, performer, teacher, activist. Her phrase “I claim my right to be a monster! Let others be normal!” has become a banner, a t-shirt, and even a quote from the American queer theorist Judith Butler.
Noemí Echaniz lived on the streets for several years. She was on the verge of becoming homeless again when the Buenos Aires City government cut off her housing subsidy. At 41 years old and with a health problem, this trans woman filed a lawsuit. The judge ordered the city government to provide her with “housing that guarantees her constitutional rights to housing, health, and dignity.”
Dalma Emilce Lobo is a 39-year-old trans activist: a survivor in Latin America, where trans people have a life expectancy of 35. This week she was tried for attempted robbery. "It was a fabricated case," she has repeated since October 23, 2014.
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