Argentina's big step towards true sexual equality | Flavia Dzodan

proposals to allow trans people to change their name and sex on legal documents could be another milestone

On July 15 last year was a historic day for equality in Latin America. Argentina was the first country in the region to legalize gay marriage. People took to the streets to celebrate after a long vigil before Congress. The law, sponsored by the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, was the result of a long and arduous campaign for LGBT organizations and their allies against the Conservatives, led by the Catholic Church.

Although it is not established that many international titles, August 18, 2011 was another historic day for equality. The Argentine Congress has begun discussions of a gender identity bill. If passed, this legislation would allow transgender people to correct your name and sex on all legal documents, including birth certificates, IDs and passports through a rapid procedure.

According to first hand accounts in the local media, which has never been so many trans activists in a discussion session in Congress. Discussions have been underway for four different projects, each supported by a group of legislators and organizations, each with a slightly different approach to provide a legal framework for questions of identity that is being addressed through judicial procedures that leave the final decision in the hands of judges and magistrates. The main differences between the projects are based on health services for those wishing to carry out the hormone and / or surgery in the transition process.

If Congress approves one of these four projects, the law of gender identity would be another milestone in the efforts of Argentina for LGBT equality. This road was started in 2007 when, at a meeting sponsored by Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, the Yogyakarta Principles was launched as a global charter for gay rights at the UN Human Rights Council . Due to the resistance of several member states, which criminalizes homosexuality and gender identity, the principles have been adopted worldwide. However, these early successes paved the way for profound social change in Argentina, leading to same-sex marriage and could possibly give trans people the right to recognition of their identities.

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LGBT Federation (FALGBT), in collaboration with the ATTA (Association of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender Argentina) launched a media campaign to publicize the bill and get the support of public. The campaign, including videos and brochures, insists on the recognition of gender identity, without the participation and subsequent medicalization of psychiatric or surgical procedures. Instead, it aims depathologization of trans identities and the elimination of gender issues in the field of psychiatry and the legal system. The campaign has also benefited from the recent highly publicized case of Florence Trinity, a popular comedian who not only managed to exercise their right to identity through a highly publicized trial, but also married his long term partner and became the mother of twins through surrogacy last week.

A statement issued by ATTA explains:

"discrimination faced by transgender people based on gender identity. Many of us are driven from our homes and rejected by our families. Most of us could not finish school because the system will be ejected by different. Even those of us who managed to finish school get tired of looking for jobs and cheap, but the doors are closed. Most of us do not have an identification with our names and we have to put up with the media referred to us as a "transvestite".

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