Personalities
This section features biographies and goals of people who have contributed to the recognition of trans people, and also offers information about trans people who have conquered success in spite of discrimination.
Tom Lantos
Tom Lantos is a man that fights for recognition for the LGTB community and their human rights. Inmigrants and the jewish community were able to understand others that had been discriminated against but he couldn’t avoid some of the contradictions.
Christian Bendayan (Iquitos-Peru, 1973)
ChristianBendayan is an example of a contemporary artist that gives us some symbolic elements on which to build a trans identity, because he presents a true copy of reality instead of a hidden version, and at the same time transforms it, showing us marginal people having colorful and happy lives.
Georgina Beyer
First transsexual in the world to be elected deputy.
Diane Arbus
American photographer who is an example of those personalities that open new symbolic worlds for those which were not considered citizens - as transvestites and all the people integrated in trans collective were viewed. She represented them as people of bones and flesh in all their humanity.
Lynn Conway
American Trans feminine that perfected the design of the microprocessors that marked the beginning of the Pentium Chips. Tenacious activist for the trans rights and fighter against social estigmas that affect to people who have lived a sex change, like her.
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