I just got back today from Buenos Aires. I spent the last couple weeks there for work. For the first time in 35 years of being a consultant, I went, and was, in female mode 24x7. I had been quite worried about my personal safety, about a woman leading a large critical project staffed by a bunch of Latin American men, and about how I would be treated as a transgender woman.
As it turned out, I needn't have worried on any count. I had co-workers with me at all times, and felt very safe. The Latin American men were desperate for my help, and treated me like the expert they had been told was coming. And, on the possible transgender issues, I don't know that I pass at all, but in more than two weeks, not one single person from LatAm mis-gendered me even one time. Every service person, hotel person, restaurant person, customer, everyone called me "madam" and "she/her." It was perhaps the most affirming two weeks of my entire life. Certainly the best two work weeks of my life. (And, perhaps I pass better than I thought. I don't know how to tell the difference between actually passing, and just really polite people. Maybe I don't care... )
Considering my initial trepidation, I am surprised to say that Argentina might be the most woman-friendly, trans-friendly country I have ever been in.
Kate