Jowelle De Souza-Trini Trans Pioneer

[Natasha]

Jowelle De Souza-Trini Trans Pioneer

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/05/jowelle-de-souza-trini-trans-pioneer.html
5/2/11
Monica Roberts

If you haven't heard of Jowelle De Souza, it's past time that you got to know this remarkable lady.   She's a businesswoman who owns a beauty shop in San Fernando that Trinis flock to in addition to being a civil rights warrior and animal rights activist in Trinidad and Tobago. 

In 1993 at age 19 she became the first person in Trinidad to have SRS and is also believed to be the first person in the Caribbean region to do so.

De Souza also became the first trans person to sue the Trinidadian state for a violation of her constitutional rights.