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Argentinian couple makes history

Started by Allamakee, January 15, 2010, 03:24:28 PM

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January 15, 2010, 03:24:28 PM
NB: this interview isn't primarily about trans issues)

Argentinian couple makes history
Windy City Times
by Emmanuel Garcia
January 13, 2010

http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/images/publications/wct/2010-01-13/current.pdf (page 6)

EG: As an activist, is marriage the most important issue for the LGBT community?

AF: Certainly marriage is not the most urgent, but it is the most symbolic. It is much more urgent to stop the pursuit of ->-bleeped-<-s by police. In Argentina, each province has an anticonstitutional law that punishes trans people for wearing clothes of the opposite sex. They can go to jail for up to 30 days.

That is why 35 percent of ->-bleeped-<-s have HIV in Argentina. They are not part of democracy because the law forbids them from participating. We need to fix the law of gender identity so that they can have identification with their name on it. Most urgently, [we need to] repeal the law that allows the police to persecute them.
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