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Castro's Daughter Helps Cuba's Transgender Community Come Out Of The Shadows

Started by Natasha, February 11, 2009, 05:29:57 AM

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Natasha

February 11, 2009, 05:29:57 AM
Castro's Daughter Helps Cuba's Transgender Community Come Out Of The Shadows

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/02/castros-daughter-helps-cubas.html
Monica Roberts
2/10/09

Cuba is famous for its cigars, its passion for baseball, the long list of great major league ballplayers from the island, great Olympians and a certain cigar smoking bearded gentleman who was its long time leader.

But I'll bet you didn't know is that like everywhere else on the planet, Cuba has transgender people on the island as well.

Thanks to having a powerful friend in internationally renowned sexologist Mariela Castro Espin, who is President Raul Castro's daughter and Fidel Castro's niece, transgender people have been able to come out of the shadows. She's the head of the National Centre for Sex Education or CENESEX, and since 2004 has pushed for more humane treatment of Cuba's GLBT people.
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