Florencia Trinidad,better known by her stage name Flor de la V,is an Argentine trans-woman,actress,television personality,comedian and vedette. As producer Gerardo Sofovich's protégée,who discovered her in a 1998 revue in Buenos Aires,De La V gained media exposure and got small television roles. Her role in the widely successful Los Roldán gave her international notoriety. Over the years,she has become a household name in Argentine show business.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,transgender,and queer (LGBTQ) rights in Argentina rank among the highest in the world. Upon legalising same-sex marriage on 15 July 2010,Argentina became the first country in Latin America,the second in the Americas,and the tenth in the world to do so. Following Argentina's transition to a democracy in 1983,its laws have become more inclusive and accepting of LGBT people,as has public opinion.
The term travesti is used in Latin America to designate people who were assigned male at birth and develop a feminine gender identity. Other terms have been invented and are used in South America in an attempt to further distinguish it from cross-dressing,drag,and pathologizing connotations. In Spain,the term was used in a similar way during the Franco era,but it was replaced with the advent of the medical model of transsexuality in the late 1980s and early 1990s,in order to rule out negative stereotypes. The arrival of these concepts occurred later in Latin America than in Europe,so the concept of travesti lasted,with various connotations.
Victoria Analía Donda Pérez is an Argentine human rights activist and legislator. She is the first daughter of a "disappeared" person,born in captivity,to become a member of the Argentine National Congress. She was the youngest woman to hold that office.
The history of lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) in Argentina is shaped by the historic characterisation of non-heterosexuality as a public enemy:when power was exercised by the Catholic Church,it was regarded as a sin;during the late 19th and early 20th centuries,when it was in the hands of positivist thought,it was viewed as a disease;and later,with the advent of civil society,it became a crime.
Transgender and travesti rights in Argentina have been lauded by many as some of the world's most progressive. The country "has one of the world's most comprehensive transgender rights laws". The Gender Identity Law,passed in 2012,made Argentina the "only country that allows people to change their gender identities without facing barriers such as hormone therapy,surgery or psychiatric diagnosis that labels them as having an abnormality". In 2015,the World Health Organization cited Argentina as an exemplary country for providing transgender rights. Leading transgender activists include Lohana Berkins,Diana Sacayán,Mariela Muñoz,María Belén Correa,Marlene Wayar,Claudia Pía Baudracco,Susy Shock and Lara Bertolini.
Intersex people in Argentina have no recognition of their rights to physical integrity and bodily autonomy,and no specific protections from discrimination on the basis of sex characteristics. Cases also exist of children being denied access to birth certificates without their parents consenting to medical interventions. The National Institute Against Discrimination,Xenophobia and Racism and civil society organizations such as Justicia Intersex have called for the prohibition of unnecessary medical interventions and access to redress.
Amancay Diana Sacayán was an Argentinian LGBT and human rights activist who fought for the legal rights of transvestites and transgender people in Argentina.
LGBT in Argentina refers to the diversity of practices,militancies and cultural assessments on sexual diversity that were historically deployed in the territory that is currently the Argentine Republic. It is particularly difficult to find information on the incidence of homosexuality in societies from Hispanic America as a result of the anti-homosexual taboo derived from Christian morality,so most of the historical sources of its existence are found in acts of repression and punishment. One of the main conflicts encountered by LGBT history researchers is the use of modern concepts that were non-existent to people from the past,such as "homosexual","transgender" and "travesti",falling into an anachronism. Non-heterosexuality was historically characterized as a public enemy:when power was exercised by the Catholic Church,it was regarded as a sin;during the late 19th and early 20th centuries,when it was in the hands of positivist thought,it was viewed as a disease;and later,with the advent of civil society,it became a crime.
Claudia Roxana Castrosín Verdú,also known as Claudia Castro,is an Argentine LGBT activist. She presides over La Fulana,an organization that supports lesbian and bisexual women,and is also the vice president of the Argentine Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual,and Trans Federation (FALGBT),through which she has contributed to laws sanctioning same-sex marriage,gender identity,and medically assisted reproduction. In 2007 she presented,together with María Rachid,her partner at the time,the first judicial protection for declaring the unconstitutionality of two articles of the civil code that prevented marriage between people of the same sex. After the approval of the Equal Marriage Law in 2010,she married Flavia Massenzio and adopted a daughter,Estefanía.
Susy Shock is an Argentine actress,writer,and singer who defines herself as a "trans sudaca artist".
María JoséLubertino is an Argentine lawyer and politician. She has worked in different social movements,as a feminist in the women's movement and human rights organizations,among others. She began her political career in the Radical Civic Union (UCR) from 1982 until the Alliance appointed Lopez Murphy as minister,and from 2003 to the present in Espacio Abierto,that joined the Front for Victory in the 2009 election. Since November 2013,she has been a member of the National Board of the Broad Front.
Lohana Berkins was an Argentine travesti activist.
Marlene Wayar is an Argentine social psychologist,travesti-transgender activist,and author of the book Travesti:una teoría lo suficientemente buena.
Claudia Pía Baudracco was an Argentine activist for the rights of women,sexual minorities,and LGBT people.
The Gender Identity Law,Argentina's law number 26,743,allows transgender people to be treated according to their gender identity and have their personal documents registered with the corresponding name and gender. In addition,it orders that all medical treatments for transitioning be included in the Compulsory Medical Program,which guarantees coverage by practices throughout the health system,both public and private. Approved by the Senate on 9 May 2012 and promulgated on 24 May,it has been lauded by the United Nations as a pioneering step for transgender rights in the region.
Mariana Alarcón was an Argentine human rights activist focused on labor rights for trans women,establishing citizenship,and the health of transgender people. A member of the Crisálida Popular Library of Gender,Sexual Affective Diversity,and Human Rights of Tucumán,she was a pioneer in the public visibility of the trans community in the social sphere of San Miguel de Tucumán. From 2012 to 2014,she conducted training and sensitization of the police forces of Tucumán Province for the full application of the Gender Identity Law.
Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta is an Argentine lawyer,professor and politician. She was the first Minister of Women,Genders and Diversity of Argentina,serving under President Alberto Fernández from 10 December 2019 to 7 October 2022.
Cris Miró was an Argentine entertainer and media personality who had a brief but influential career as a top-billing vedette in Buenos Aires' revue theatre scene during the mid-to-late 1990s. Miróbegan her acting career in the early 1990s in fringe theatre plays and later rose to fame as a vedette at the Teatro Maipo in 1995. For years,she hid her HIV positive status from the press until her death on 1 June 1999,due to AIDS-related lymphoma.
Lara María Bertolini is an activist,researcher,and author of the book Soberanía Travesti,una Identidad argentinatransl. Travesti Sovereignty,an Argentinian Identity. She holds a position with the Public Ministry of Argentina and is a law student at the National University of Avellaneda. She won a historical case in Argentina that changed her birth certificate and I.D. to signify her identity with "travesti femininity".
