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Trans and LGBQ+ Organizations Request Meeting with President for Suicide of Trans Child in Copiapó

by Equipo OTD | Jun 10, 2019 | Discrimination, Education, Trans visibility

Today civil society organizations and allies of the Trans and LGBQ+ community delivered a letter, with more than 700 signatures, to the President of the Republic requesting an urgent meeting to advance in the protection of children, after more than a week ago the...

A Thousand Signatures for Matías: Organizations Urge Government to Work to Protect LGBTIQ+ Children’s Lives

by Equipo OTD | Jun 10, 2019 | Discrimination, Education

Since Tuesday, May 28, social organizations, collectives and allies of the community Trans and LGBIQ+ have shared a letter addressed to President Sebastián Piñera to pronounce and work with the Ministry of Education, after the young trans, Matías Guevara, committed...

OTD Chile mourns death of trans child who committed suicide due to bullying in Copiapó

by Equipo OTD | Jun 10, 2019 | Discrimination, Education

This weekend, the death of 16-year-old transgender Matías Guevara was announced. Community Atacama Trans alerted about the situation of harassment that lived in Liceo Sagrado Corazón High School of Copiapó. “There was bullying, that’s 100% real”,...

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...

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...