The Government of Javier Milei announced a few days ago that it will advance by decree with modifications to the Gender Identity Lawamong other things, to prevent minors from accessing hormonization treatments and sexual reassignment surgeries. The elimination of CLabor UPO and non -binary documents These are other benefits that the Government plans to eliminate from the legislation to leave the trans community in a “equality” plane with the rest of the population.
To know how these decisions affect the collective, news consulted Marlene Wayar activist and writera true reference for the community and author of books such as “Transvesti Fury” and “Transvesti, a good enough theory.” With her we talk about the situation of trans people today, The effects of the anti -fascist march and the “privileges” that could be lost if the law is modified.
NEWS: Why does the government talk about privileges?
Marlene Wayar: No sir, no privilege! We are absolutely excluded from the system. We only have prostitution, unless we are educated, beautiful, we have some good family, good links. Finally you can have a shit job and just that. 89% of us are in a situation of prostitution, which we enter between 8 and 13 years. Dad and mom throw us from home, we have no relationships with our family. I have companions who have the DNI that reflects their gender, but they only have that.
NEWS: Do you think of some kind of legal action from the group to reverse government intentions?
Wayar: We are with a group of lawyers thinking about the possibility of an amparo that protects the gender identity law and the quota law, but they tell us that the conditions are not given. In addition, of the only two transvestites lawyers we had, one of them was fired from work.
News: How much do you think the anti -fascist march affected the government?
Wayar: What he felt was that everyone wanted to hug you. Sensitive intelligence was and is present, people want to join. It seems to me that the government moved the floor. In principle, the other day we demonstrate the ability to fill the streets. It is important to achieve alliances and articulations with anti -racist organizations, of native peoples, of workers, human rights. Our political responsibility as movement is to give each of the people in this country a bit of self -esteem. And it is important to involve democratic powers. That justice decides what side it will be, if they will allow us to trample us. If the situation continues to get worse for us, we can go to the Inter -American Court of Human Rights and the international order can require Argentina to contemplate as movement.
News: Despite the euphoria that left the march, you declared that it is pessimistic.
Wayar: My pessimism has to do with the shelter against disappointment. My companions and I have been disappointed. We had an official as Alba Rueda (transsexual activist, was Undersecretary of Diversity Policies in the Ministry of Women, during the government of Alberto Fernández) in a space of power, which was prostituted. I am in contradiction. On the one hand, what happened to me hope, but I think if it will not be just a moment of euphoria and what we are going to achieve is that a couple of middle class people accommodate in organisms. That cheap progressivism caused severe problems.
News: What are your criticisms of the previous management in that regard?
Wayar: Alba Rueda did not fight for a space of power and a budget that would apply to policies designed and aimed at the LGBT community in general, but especially to the trans transvestite. She covered the Minister of Women, to sectors of Peronism and Alberto Fernández himself in his decisions of doing nothing. We raised to Rueda and the then president that we needed concrete laws and resources for the age of legal age who were at risk due to hunger and medical neglect. He distracted us so that we do not make a scandal to the minister and Alberto, in most we got some quotas for companions, to droppers. And when some companions became understood in that miserable help that was offered for us for gender violence policies – that it is not a policy specifically designed for our group – those same companions had already died for medical neglect. The transvestite community fell into the political violence of an entire narrative sustained by the activism that had work in the state and accommodation in Peronism. Nothing could be criticized because it was “to make the game to the right.” They censored people, I was censored after the Gender Identity Law on page 12.
News: Do you have criticism of LGBT movement and feminisms?
Wayar: Yes, among other things it was a slap for the transvestite community that the LGBTIQ+ movement considered that equal marriage was a priority because it affected men and cisgenero women, white, academics, in relation to their property and their need for citizen equality. When we asked for human rights! We asked not to take us detainees, to end the police violence, we did not even ask for not being in the prostitutive exercise. We weren’t dreamed with the Trans Labor quota. And one of the most insulting things was that feminism began to discuss the parity law and not summon us, understanding that parity is not “between men and women”, that we are not sitting on those benches.
News: What would mean losing the rights that were achieved?
Wayar: It is a tragic question. Sometimes I think that we first have to go through the pain of loss and then go through the conquests, the defense of the conquests and self -criticism, and not stay in the well -off places. In the march there was a slogan that was: “The lion woke the dragon.” That, don’t fall asleep. And sometimes, the possibility that you are not sleeping is the danger of losing some of your comfort. Perhaps there is the spirit of the term “Wake”, “Awakens.” The important thing that a law has is not finally what ends written, but the spirit that is in this town, which understood that the travs cannot be beat; that fags cannot be denied entering the bowling alley, loading them into a collective and putting them in a dungeon; that lesbians cannot be violated in mass to become “real women.” This town “something” understood. And this is the important thing and what you have to support. Then we see. Let’s keep awake.
Two first person testimonies
Two activists, Federica Báez, former director of the Palais de Gace and actress Daniela Ruizlinked to the brown identity movement, expressed their position before the decisions of the government.
“When the decree refers to ‘the rights of the child’ is fallacious, on the one hand the ultra -right calls to lower the age of imputability and on the other, infantilizes adolescents and does not allow them to make decisions about their identity. It seeks to constitute the transvestite trans community as scapegoats and make the self -recognition of its subjectivity more traumatic, ”said Feda Báez.
Daniela Ruiz, meanwhile, said: “When the government accuses us of wanting privileges, what privileges do you speak? We are survivors and we reveal ourselves to a system that makes us invisible and criminalizes us. They want to put us in the same place that at some point the Jewish community was placed. In the ’90s we went out to buy the PAN and the police took us prey. The people of the transvestite trans community do not get work, and not because we do not look for it, but because there is still a stigma about our group. We still die before the age of 40.
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