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Progress in the Fight for Gender Identity

Started by Shana A, February 12, 2011, 09:15:15 AM

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February 12, 2011, 09:15:15 AM
Progress in the Fight for Gender Identity
By Marcela Valente

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54452

BUENOS AIRES, Feb 11, 2011 (IPS) - "In my family, they always saw me as a girl, but at school they called me by my boy's name, which is why I dropped out," Paula Sosa, a ->-bleeped-<- who recently managed to change her name on her identity document, told IPS.

Sosa's case appears in a campaign launched in 2010 by the Association of ->-bleeped-<-s, Transsexuals and Transgender People of Argentina (ATTA) pressing for a gender identity law that would guarantee the right to a legal name and gender change on official documents.

Although some 50 transsexuals in Argentina who have had sex reassignment surgery over the last few decades have obtained documents reflecting their new identities after lengthy legal battles, no law has been passed yet to guarantee that right.
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