This transgender stuff is part of the Marxist revolution taking over the West.
‘Jesica Gómez has lost count of the number of times she was arrested by the police since she came out as transgender at age 17. “The police used to get us anywhere, grab us by the hair and arrest us, for nothing, just for being trans,” she says.
Now 48, Gómez is a leading activist for the rights of trans women in Argentina. And she isn’t alone: Argentina is on a path of change.
In 2012, a pioneering law was passed in Argentina that allows people to choose their gender by filling out a form and without the need to undergo a medical procedure. It also made access to hormonal treatments and gender reassignment surgery available through the public health system. That legal shift paved the way for the South American country to emerge as a regional beacon of progress on elevating gender issues in public life — even though violence and discrimination remain rampant.
One of the most popular high schools in Buenos Aires, the Mariano Acosta, has approved the use of gender-neutral language, as has the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. The capital is also home to Mocha Celis, the first high school in the world specifically for transgender people, which opened in 2012 (another trans school opened, in 2018, in Chile). Congress is debating a bill to make gender-neutral language mandatory in parliamentary proceedings. Major hospitals are creating separate wards for trans people.
Lizy Tagliani and Florencia Trinidad, two prominent TV anchors in Argentina, are transgender. One of the main storylines in 2018 on Argentina’s most popular soap, 100 días para enamorarse (100 Days to Fall in Love), focused on the storyline of a transgender teenager going through his transition.
“100 Days opened many doors — even for me, and I have a family that is very supportive,” says Carla López Masilla, a 41-year-old trans woman and aspiring social worker. “Watching it together made them feel they could ask me things they had not dared to ask before.”
Only Ireland, Malta, Norway, Portugal and Belgium have trans identity laws as far-reaching as Argentina’s. Since 2012, Bolivia, Uruguay and Venezuela have allowed an individual to change their gender after physical and psychological assessments. In Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, adults are now eligible for a gender change. Brazil is currently debating a bill on allowing gender change.
Though statistics for the overall population aren’t available, official figures show that, since 2012, approximately 16 minors change their gender every year. In 2013, a 6-year-old called Lourdes became the first minor in the world whose gender change was accepted formally on her national identification card, without her having to undergo a surgical procedure. But the gains for Argentina’s trans community extend beyond those who have changed their gender.’https://www.ozy.com/around-the-world/argentinas-trans-formation-is-reshaping-latin-americas-gender-rights/225293/
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