The government of Javier Milei He announced a few days ago that he will advance by decree with modifications to the Gender Identity Law, among other things, to prevent minors from accessing hormonization treatments and sexual reallocation surgeries. The elimination of labor quota and non -binary documents are other “privileges” that the Government plans to eliminate from the legislation to, he says, leave the trans community in a plan of “equality” with the rest of the population.
To know how these decisions affect the group, news consulted the activist and writer Marlene Wayara true reference for the community and author of books such as “Transvesti Fury” and “Transvesti, a good enough theory.” With it 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 gives 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, sectors of Peronism and Alberto Fernández himself in her decisions of doing nothing. 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: 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 what you have to hold. Then we see. Let’s keep awake.
More cases. Two activists, Federica Báez, former director of the Palais de Gace and actress Daniela Ruiz, linked to the brown identity movementThey expressed their position before government decisions. “When the decree refers to ‘the rights of the child’ is fallacious, on the one hand the ultra -right calls down the age of imputability and on the other, infantilizes adolescents and does not allow them Feda Báez.
Daniela Ruizon the other hand, he said: “When the government accuses us of wanting privileges, what privileges speak? We are surviving and we rebel before a system that invisible and criminalizes us. They want to put ours Let’s look for, but because there is still a stigma about our group.
Note written by Tomás Rodríguez
