More than a year and a half after its enactment, the Diana Sacayán Transgender Employment Quota Law remains unregulated. Officials from the Human Rights Secretariat of the Province of Buenos Aires informed the group of organizations that the implementing decree has entered its "final stage," prior to Governor María Eugenia Vidal's signature.
Gian Franco Rosales is the first trans man to hold a high-ranking position in the Argentine public sector. The Director of Diversity for the Avellaneda district recounts his journey from Googling "A man trapped in a woman's body" to the challenges he faces today as a public official…
The Mocha Celis Trans Popular High School is a unique educational experience that has been operating for over five years in Buenos Aires. There, students can complete primary and secondary school free of charge, as well as learn vocational skills. Fifty percent of the teaching staff are transgender.
Ten transgender migrant women planned how to escape prostitution. They are succeeding at the Las Charapas cooperative hair salon, where they share working hours. They say they have cut expenses, but that their lives have changed. "We breathe fresh air," they affirm.
Hospital mistreatment and lack of support were two key points of the assembly held yesterday afternoon, ahead of a meeting with officials from the National Ministry of Health.
Argentine activist Lara María Bertolini writes about the urgent need to build policies based on the voices of trans people themselves: without intermediaries, manuals, or party directives. And, to this end, she proposes a series of actions.
Following several reports of attacks on Ecuadorian transvestite and transgender migrants in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Once, Judge Andrea Danas ordered a police detail and a patrol car to be stationed in the area where three attacks occurred in the last month.
The new legislation is historic and was announced through the official legislative gazette. "It is the first law that recognizes sexual orientation and gender identity, protecting our physical integrity." Photos: Courtesy of Esteban Marchand and Presentes archive. From today onward, discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity is considered…
Nicolás Dujovne, Argentina's new finance minister, deleted a discriminatory tweet from his account yesterday regarding LGBTQ+ activist Diana Sacayán. Various organizations and leaders of the community are demanding that he "retract his discriminatory statements and apologize to the entire community." [News updated today at 3 PM] (#BUENOSAIRES) — The Commission of Relatives and Comrades for Justice for…
Avery Jackson, a nine-year-old transgender girl, graces the cover of the January issue of National Geographic magazine. The edition, dedicated to gender issues, sparked both praise and controversy. How do people involved with transgender children view this cover?
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