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Today trans people in Argentina can start changing their IDs through a simple and free administrative procedure!
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Argentina: Desde el lunes rige la Ley de Identidad de Genero
The article the link leads to is in Spanish. It’s about the new Gender Identity Law in Argentina. I’ve translated the full text of the article to the best of my ability (mouse over my translation to see the original text as well):
The procedure to change genders on one’s ID card can be done starting June 4th throughout the country, when the Gender Identity Law goes into effect. In Córdoba, it can be done starting today [May 31st].
The Gender Identity Law was formalized and published last Thursday in the official bulletin with the signatures of President Cristina Fernández, the chief of the Cabinet Juan Manuel Abal Medina, and the Minister of the Interior Florencio Randazzo. Through this law, all people are granted the right to change their documentation to reflect the gender, image, and given name they wish, without having to resort to going to court.
Neither will it be asked of one to have completed genital reconstruction surgery.
The president of the Argentinian LGBT Federation (FAlGBT), Esteban Paulón, said “Outside of the dispositions of each registry office, after Monday June 4th, any person, throughout the whole country, may exercise their right to change their gender, name and photo.”
The procedure, which may take from 10 days to 2 months depending on the individual registry office, consists of submitting a request form for the recognition of identity and a certified copy of the [birth?] certificate and of the ID.
After that first filing, the Registry Office will provide for the safekeeping of the birth certificate to generate a new one which would pertain to an internal resolution of each registry office where the act will be recorded, but kept confidential, as the law establishes.
This implies that “save a court order or legitimate reason, the data that were removed will be publicly inaccessible; meanwhile, the documents issued by the Registry Office will only contain the new data, which will give equality to the person who exercises the right of gender identity referred to in the law, explained the head of the FALGBT.
There is a demand that has accumulated that will make itself known for the first time in the Registry Offices of the whole country,” estimated Paulón, who recalled that “as soon as the law had passed there was a notable increase in inquiries to our organization on two topics: documentation and health,” said Paulón.
Apart from the change of data in birth certificates and IDs, the head of the FLGBT clarified that another process would begin the more extensive emendation of school records, social security, health and economic issues, among others, that would require administrative mechanisms to fit this new situation.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4x5lx3E9O1qcbrkvo1_500.jpg)
Today trans people in Argentina can start changing their IDs through a simple and free administrative procedure!
Argentina: Desde el lunes rige la Ley de Identidad de Genero
The article the link leads to is in Spanish. It’s about the new Gender Identity Law in Argentina. I’ve translated the full text of the article to the best of my ability (mouse over my translation to see the original text as well):
The procedure to change genders on one’s ID card can be done starting June 4th throughout the country, when the Gender Identity Law goes into effect. In Córdoba, it can be done starting today [May 31st].
The Gender Identity Law was formalized and published last Thursday in the official bulletin with the signatures of President Cristina Fernández, the chief of the Cabinet Juan Manuel Abal Medina, and the Minister of the Interior Florencio Randazzo. Through this law, all people are granted the right to change their documentation to reflect the gender, image, and given name they wish, without having to resort to going to court.
Neither will it be asked of one to have completed genital reconstruction surgery.
2012 Lesbian and Gay Rights in the World Maps
Maps from: IGLA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association)
For larger images, click on direct post and then click images.
Public Employees Go on Strike in Chile
Santiago de Chile, November 29 (Prensa Latina) - Chilean public workers will begin a 48-hour strike on Tuesday to demand job security and reject the wage adjustment presented by the government.
The protesters are members of the National Association of Fiscal Employees (ANEF), the Teachers Association and the National Federation of University Professionals in the Health Services, three of the main public sector unions.
According to ANEF leader Raul de la Puente, the wage proposal of a five percent increase is still insufficient. This was announced by the government in recent hours and accepted by 11 of the 14 public associations such as the National Confederation of Municipal Health Workers.
The ANEF had requested a salary increase of 9.8 percent, while the government had proposed a four percent increase which then rose to 4.5 and finally to five percent.
Besides an increased adjustment and automatic renewal of employment contracts designed to ensure job security, the strikers also demand an adequate retirement incentive policy.
Repression in Chile, 2011
Chile: Hunger strike by 50 students continues
fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Santiago, Aug 23 (Prensa Latina) - Almost 50 young students have been on hunger strike for 36 days, demanding free and public education; the health of three of them is seriously deteriorating. The spokesman of the protesters, Matias Villegas, declared Tuesday to Radio Cooperativa that the students are demanding that the Executive solve the problem as soon as possible.
Felipe Sanhueza, Matías Ortega and Gloria Negrete are the ones with the worst health conditions, especially Gloria who remains in the San Luis de Buin hospital, just outside Santiago.
Angel Muños (18) and Fidel Carrasco (16) chained themselves in front of a high school in solidarity with the students of Buin and also joined the hunger strike on Monday.
According to the spokeswoman for the Chilean Students Federation, Camila Vallejo, the government is responsible for these extreme measures, like the hunger strike, since it has not changed its position.
Vallejo warned that the strikers’ lives are in danger, and criticized the Chilean government for remaining indifferent towards this crisis.
Meanwhile, social groups keep joining the 48 hours national strike called by the Workers United Center of Chile starting Wednesday.
Social protests have been taking place in Chile since last April when students took the streets, schools and universities demanding the end of education for profit, established by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
