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Gender Identity. Argentina 2010.

Tania has your ID as a woman

The room

José Luis Cabezas of Congress, the Comunidad Homosexual Argentina (CHA) gave Tania Luna the new DNI, which recognizes her identity and accepts the name chosen by it without prior sexual reassignment surgery. The CHA asked Parliament for the treatment of Gender Identity Act.

Tania, actress, 27, became the first person Latin America get a document that recognizes their identity as women, despite being born male, without being forced to undergo sexual reassignment surgery, according to a judge's 2008 ruling marplatense Pedro Hooft.

The actress, who on 7 this month will debut in a revue with Queen Reech, got to see reflected in your document the name you renamed it eleven years ago. "Mine is a position of privilege," Tania held in Congress, where he thanked his family and the organizations that helped with his claim and upheld the sanction of a law that what she did courts have the scope to all sexual minorities, unable to access a lawyer.

In delivering the document to Tania in Congress today took Cesar Cigliutti, president of the CHA, Pedro Paradiso Sottile, legal coordinator of the organization, the owner of Inadi, Claudio Morgado, the activist Claudia Puccini and Lohana Berkins concerning the Association of Struggle for Transvestite and Transsexual Identity (ALITT).

"The DNI is the gateway to citizenship, the recognition of individual sexual choice and access to social programs, health, the right to vote," said Morgado, who highlighted the role of national government to "provide the tools for that (those rights) are a reality."

With the introduction of the new DNI, the LGBT community gave a show of support for new bill introduced last month, setting four areas to understand and avoid trans identities rules binary forms of reproduction ( male-female). The initiative promotes: depathologization (not considering trans identities disease), the dejudicialisation that the administrative process for recognition before the Civil Registry), the stigmatization (includes non-discrimination), and the decriminalization trans identities.

Until 2008 Argentina jurisprudence admitted only two issues that transsexuals were operated "to adapt their external sex real sex" or if they already undergone surgery to adapt their real identity documents ".

That changed after the submission of Tania and the judge's ruling Hooft, who argued that making the substitution of the name to the prior completion of an operation" would imply a serious inconsistency "and a" vision reductionist. "The judge understood that equate" sex and gender with only one of its externalities, for if the presence of male external genitalia, to the detriment of personal identity ".