by Equipo OTD | Mar 14, 2019 | Gender Identity Law
On Thursday, 25 October, the Constitutional Court of Chile established that the recently approved Gender Identity Law is constitutional, leaving the text as it came out from the Congress in September. Now, the government has a maximum period of 30 days for its...
by Equipo OTD | Mar 11, 2019 | Gender Identity Law
The Gender Identity Act was approved with 95 votes in favor at 14:15 hours on Tuesday of September 12 by the Chamber of Deputies, ending a waiting of more than five years that the legislative processing of the project lasted. After almost four hours of debate, the...
by Equipo OTD | Dec 6, 2018 | Gender Identity Law
Chile’s Supreme Court approved a trans woman’s name and sex change after a four-year wait, and that the rectification be denied in the first instance and by the Appeals Court. This is a landmark ruling because the Supreme Court recognizes the identity as a...
by Equipo OTD | Jun 1, 2018 | International, Trans visibility
When Tiziana was 8 years old she told her mother she was a girl. She grew up in Salta, Argentina, and her mother’s testimony was widely known in social media two weeks ago. The testimony was clearly written to explain how her daughter, who was male gendered when...
by Equipo OTD | May 24, 2018 | Gender Identity Law, Trans visibility
The mixed commission for the Gender Identity Law (GIL) met yesterday for the second time and on this occasion the president of Organizando Trans Diversidades (Organizing Trans Diversities), Franco Fuica, was the only Trans person who spoke before the commission. In...