Starting with the expressions “it shows” or “it doesn’t show,” activist Violeta Alegre reflects on the tendency for trans women to reproduce hegemonic models, often at a very high physical and emotional cost. And she asks: Is there a universalization of what it means to be a woman? What does it mean to feel like a woman? To have a vagina? To be attracted to the opposite?
Trans and gender-diverse rights organizations are denouncing police abuses in La Plata. Legal complaints have been filed regarding two raids in February and for an investigation into the death of Pamela Macedo Pandu, who was detained in a prison in Florencio Varela.
Vitit Muntarbhorn is the United Nations Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. His visit began with a tour of the greater Buenos Aires area. There, he heard the first reports of escalating violence and setbacks in public policy.
Tomorrow there will be a demonstration in front of the Prosecutor's Office in La Plata to demand that the death of Pamela Macedo Panduro, a member of Otrans, be clarified. She died on January 1st while detained in Penal Unit No. 32 in Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires Province.
In Paraguay, Yren Rotela became the spokesperson for the trans community to call for the International Women's Strike on March 8th. Who is this activist who challenged the UN's report on women, took her case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and is running for Congress in 2018?
Around twenty men attacked trans activist Alessandra Luna and two companions in Glew, Buenos Aires Province. They beat them for twenty minutes and stole all their belongings. Today they expanded their complaint at Provincial Prosecutor's Office 20 in Lomas de Zamora. "We were terrified by the morbid curiosity of those who were watching and filming," Luna told Presentes.
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.
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