Education | OTD Chile

OTD Chile supports parliamentary initiative to protect the integrity of transgender children

by Equipo OTD | Jun 10, 2019 | Education, Public Politics

Nada que corregir is the parliamentary initiative of deputies Natalia Castillo and Pamela Jiles that seeks to protect LGBTIQ children within their families. The bill includes modifications to the law on domestic violence and the anti-discrimination law. The objective...

Two years from the education circular for trans students, what’s missing?

by Equipo OTD | May 20, 2019 | Education, Public Politics

This April 27 marks two years since the publication of circular 0768 of the Superintendency of Education, which recognizes trans students in Chile and obliges all schools to respect the social name, uniform and use of the bathroom according to self-perceived gender...

OTD Chile holds successful seminar on trans childhood and education

by Equipo OTD | May 15, 2019 | Education, Trans visibility

OTD Chile organized a successful seminar on trans childhood and education last Thursday, April 18, at the Universidad Mayor. The activity crowns a project funded by the Global Equality Fund run by the U.S. Embassy. The initiative of the Community Development Unit...

The Genderbullying is the kind of bullying with more frequency

by Equipo OTD | Apr 22, 2019 | Discrimination, Education, Public Politics

In OTD Chile we contact with teacher Alba Alonso Feijoo after a seeing an announcement about about her job. We were interest in thinking about how we can afront school bullying, thinking especially in the transgende kids in this schoolar year. Their job on...

The Universities of Chile that recognized the identity of their transexual students

by Equipo OTD | Apr 22, 2019 | Education, Public Politics

OTD Chile did a research about the universities that respect the social name of transexual students. Off all of those that answered, 18 already counts with a system that allows their students to replace the legal name on lists and intern documents of the...

The comments

by Equipo OTD | Apr 22, 2019 | Discrimination, Education, Trans visibility

The other day, I saw a post on Twitter about the Arlen case, the transgender girl that wants to be admitted in a HIgh school called Liceo 1, especially for girls in Santiago, and for some reason, I do something that i’m not used to, most of the comments are useless...