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Amazing scenes as Argentina leads world on Trans Equality

  • 04-07-2012 2:17pm
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    Annasopra
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    Argentina recently bought in the most progressive laws in the world on gender identity

    http://www.teni.ie/news-post.aspx?contentid=578

    This week the Argentinian President embraced these laws and transgender equality with some amazing recognition, passion and humanity. I really dislike her general politics but I am impressed by this speech.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/argentine-leader-proudly-delivers-new-identity-cards-to-transsexuals-saying-equality-matters/2012/07/02/gJQAAQ7BJW_story.html

    http://blabbeando.blogspot.ie/2012/07/in-emotional-ceremony-argentinean.html#.T_RNh0dZ5GM

    "Today is a day of tremendous reparation," the president said at the start of her speech, "today we do not shout for liberation but instead we shout for equality, which is just as important as freedom."

    Referring to Kalym Adrian, who was sitting in the front row holding the flag of the Argentinean LGBT Federation (FALGBT), the president then stated that Mr. Adrian had known he was a man as early as when he was four years of age and said that it was only now at 42 years of age that he was finally being recognized for who he was. "He has waited all his life!" someone shouted from the audience which the president acknowledged by repeating "All his life".

    Noting that the average age at which transgender individuals die in Argentina is 32, the president argued that part of it was due to the stress of being repressed and ignored and not having any rights and said this would change that.

    "I do not want to use a word that bothers me greatly: Tolerance. No. I do not believe in 'tolerance'. To tolerate is to say I'll allow you to be because I have no other choice", she said, "I want to talk about equality and I want to talk about all of you who will now have the same rights I have enjoyed from the moment I was born and the rights that so many millions of Argentinians have enjoyed from the moment they were born. This is the society we want."

    She later added "There is nothing new under the sun and let's see if we all can agree on that. All these issues we are acknowledging today in a legal way are nothing new. They stem from the history of humanity and it's time for us to accept that reality is not how we'd like to be if I think in a certain way or someone else wants it to be but that reality is what it is"

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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