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In their own name: Argentine trans and travesti activists in public office
Activisms, expectations and agendas of Alba Rueda, Daniela Castro, Ivana Gutiérrez, Ornella Infante, Violeta Alegre and Nancy Sena.
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Report: Transvestites and trans people in Argentine prisons: more migrants, young people and without conviction
A report by Otrans Argentina reveals: two-thirds of trans people in prison are between 25 and 40 years old, most of them migrants.
Mocha Celis, the first transvestite-trans Popular High School in Latin America
How does this space, which is committed to educational inclusion, work behind closed doors?
Trans woman detained without conviction left paraplegic and denounces torture
She walked into a prison in the province of Buenos Aires and today she is bedridden, paraplegic, in a hospital in La Plata.
Detainees: Trans Stories in Confinement
In this multimedia report, Yhajaira, Bruno, and Emilce recount their experience in a binary and cisnormative penal system.
Trans woman sought help from police after hate attack: she alleges she was beaten and detained
In Posadas (Misiones) a young trans woman reported that when she went to a police station to ask for help because of an assault, she was beaten and detained.
When Chilean transvestites took to the streets for the first time
In April 1973, a group of young transvestites took to the streets, marking the beginning of the intense struggles for diversity in Chile. This was met with total rejection from the press in a politically turbulent climate. “Faggots flaunted their sexual deviance in the Plaza de Armas,” headlined the newspaper Clarín.
Five trans women accused of drug dealing were acquitted
A prosecutor is requesting the dismissal of charges against five transgender women accused of small-scale drug dealing, citing the structural violence they face.
Chile has accumulated a record number of violent incidents against LGBT people in the last year.
In 2018, 698 cases of violence and abuse based on sexual orientation or gender identity were reported in Chile. This is the highest figure recorded in the last 17 years.
PHOTOS Women, lesbians, bisexuals, transvestites, trans and non-binary people on #8M
#8M in photos: this is how 300,000 women, lesbians, transvestites, trans, bisexuals and non-binary people marched in Buenos Aires.