Cuba's First Gender Reassigned Transexual Battles Sexism

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Cuba's First Gender Reassigned Transexual Battles Sexism
posted by: Steve Williams 19 hours ago

http://www.care2.com/causes/civil-rights/blog/cubas-first-gender-reassigned-transexual-fights-confines-of-gender-roles/

In a documentary that premiered in mid-August, a transexual who was the first to undergo gender reassignment surgery in Cuba in 1988, highlights how, more than 20 years later and after a lot of struggle, there has been a positive change for trans people in the country but how she now feels trapped and must battle against the ingrained sexism that still lurks in Cuban society, thus providing a rare glimpse into the problems of gender inequality.

Confined by the Gender She Transitioned To
Mavi Susel, the transwoman in question, is the subject of "En el cuerpo equivocado" or "In the Wrong Body" a documentary by the once actress and now filmmaker Marilyn Solayas.