translated from Spanish: Who was Lohana Berkins? | Filo News

Although this militant and activist died in 2016, his name continues in each different gear or feminist militant activity that exists. Is that their fight for transgender people marked a before and an after in the history of our country. Argentina, the first in the world to have a gender identity law, due to her that he was the defender and promoter of the same. 

In 2002 he scored in the Normal School No. 3 to be a teacher, and when he could not do so with its autopercibido name, filed a complaint in the defense of the people of the city of Buenos Aires. That generated that after an exemplary resolution, school authorities respected their gender identity thus setting a precedent of what would then be a right acquired in 2009. Lohana became the first transvestite with a State job and a political position as Adviser to the legislature of the autonomous city of Buenos Aires by the Communist Party (led by Patricio Echegaray). In addition, was Advisor to the Buenos Aires legislator Diana Maffía in human rights, guarantees, woman, childhood, childhood and adolescence, candidate for national Deputy in the year 2001.En your travel led the labor venture managed and administered by people TRANS: the Nadia Echazú textile cooperative. This was the first co-operative school for transvestites and transsexuals. 

During 2010 it formed the national front by the gender identity law, which was an Alliance of more than fifteen organizations that promoted the enactment at the national level what would, two years later, law of identity and gender adopted on 9 may 2012 and pro mulgada by the former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.En the year 2013 was named at the head of the Office of identity of gender and Sexual orientation, which operates under the orbit of the Observatory of gender in the Justice of the city of Buenos Aires.

In the year 2016 he died after being hospitalized for several weeks in critical condition. His last letter, still continues to form part of the collective poetry of the trans movement. “Dear colleagues, my state of health is very critical and does not allow me to meet with you personally. So I want to thank them for their tokens of affection and give a few words through Marlene Wayar companion, whom lego this post. Many are the wins we got in these years. Now it is time to resist, to fight for its continuity. The time of the revolution is now, because to jail not return anymore. I am convinced that love is the engine of change. The love that we denied is our impulse to change the world. All the hits and the contempt that I suffered, are not compared with the infinite love that surrounds me now. Fury Travesti always. A hug”.

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