Bulletin T-informa / Year II - 2009 - Issue 013

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Analysis and research about trans legislation: Trans Law in Latin America
In the T-Informa #5 of April 2008, we made a brief summary of the legislation on gender identity around the world, and we also added to our library the complete version so it could be available for all our readers.

Campaign: The record book of intolerance. Deeds say more than a thousand words
Trans people have recently won a war in favour of their rights, not only because the UN have recognized that the LGBT population's Human Rights should be respected, but also because the killings, tortures and arbitrary detentions that this community suffers all around the globe have been condemned.

Book: Transgender history
Stryker, Susan.
Berkeley: Seal Press, 2008.
This book is dedicated “to all the trans people who lived the lives that made the history”. It is a conceptual and historical trip about the transgender movement in the USA written by a trans scholar. Susan Stryker can blend the experience of having conceived herself as a woman despite being born with a man's body, with the knowledge about history and human evolution, both of which she has directed towards trans identity, its theorization, divulgation and understanding.

Notes: Masculinization or transgenerization?
George Sand
George was born a woman, back there in the Paris of 1804. Her real name was Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin. Later on, she acquired the title of Dudevant Baroness when she married Baron Casimir Dudevant, with whom she had two children. The marriage lasted ten years, after which they got divorced. Since then, Amandine preferred masculine clothes, which allowed her to walk more freely around the city and gave her access to places where no woman would enter.

Notes:Using silicone
Transforming their body is one of the steps taken by every trans person (transexual , transgender, transvestite) by wearing certain clothes and accessories, or by directly altering their contexture, organs and aspect. In most countries, this process isn't included in public health services, and so it has to be payed for.

Personalities: Alec Recher
Born in Switzerland in 1975 under the name of Anja Recher. He is a teacher currently involved in politics, working as a deputy in the canton of Zurich. Although he was born a woman, in September 2008 he declared in the media that he had begun a hormone treatment in order to undergo a definitive change of sex.

Arts: Earning a living as a trans man
The documentary is presented in two parts in which Coli Fernández tells us about his work experience. The first thing that strikes us is the tender age at which he starts working (13 years old), charging money in a bus. From that first job until his current job, he has had to hide his legal identity

Mailbox
Violeta: Hello, ¿How are you? The thing is that I'm undergoing self-medication and I don't know if I'm doing right. I'm from Pachuca (Lambayeque) and there isn't enough information. Could you help me.
ITS: Dear Violeta,Although we have already sent you the information about the consequences of the hormonal changes, I invite you to visit some of the suggested webpages, which can give you more specialized information ...
Zulema: Hello, I'd like to ask for information about how to start the procedures to change identity documents, because in this province of San Juan it is something new and we want to make it the right way.
ITS: Dear Zulema, Thanks a lot for your query, it made us check and get more detailed information about trans law in Buenos Aires..

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T-informa Bulletin
Financed by Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Trans and Intersexuals International Associated (ILGA) and
The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights ( RFSL)
Director: Belissa Andía Pérez / Editor: Bethsabé Huamán / Designer: Vanessa Laura / Translator: Roberto Sánchez-Piérola
Regional Collaboraters: LAC: Andrés Rivera / Europe: Justus Eisfeld / ANZAPI: Joey Mataele / USA: Aidan Dunn