Guasave’s first trans girl is now called Karol Michelle

Guasave.- After years of discrimination and struggle for respect and recognition of the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, today, who is called a transsexual girl, she was recognized by the legal way to be able to change her identity and went from being called Jesús Ricardo López Leyva to Karol Michelle, retaining the same surnames. Now Michelle Lozz, as she is known in the community, became the first trans girl from Guasave to make the identity change. At 35 years old, she begins with her new identity recognized by law by complying with the required documentation before the gender identity module that is located in the Civil Registry of Culiacán, which has been operating for approximately a month and a half. Today she has a new birth certificate, where only the name was modified and it was possible to identify her as female. “In my record almost everything remains the same, the name of my parents, where I was born and only my name was changed, but the surnames remain the same and I no longer appear as male, now it becomes feminine,” he shared. The procedure describes it as something quick and simple, she only presented two copies of the birth certificate, two copies of the CURP, two copies of the voter credential and the proof of recent address, paid 370 pesos and was 100 percent sure of wanting to make the change. The representative of that community that wore the crown as queen of the carnival in Guasave, Sinaloa municipality, El Pitahayal and El Cubilete, clarified that it is not necessary to make the change of sex nor was any type of examination applied, and in her case she did not do it days ago because she did not have the voter credential, which is a prerequisite. “In half an hour I did everything, automatically when they give you the birth certificate they also deliver the new CURP so that one takes out the new INE, but there are some CURPs that take up to 15 days, but once they deliver it, it is to get the INE with my real name already,” he said. All the documentation with the identity of Jesús Ricardo, which they ask him to keep for a while, in what he has all the new identification as Michelle, this so that they have how to check in case of any problem in a procedure. “They tell me to keep my record for a while and everything because they take time to remove my name as a man from several parts and to be able to verify with documents the change for any inconvenience that arises,” he revealed. Although Michelle for years presented herself as a woman, puts on makeup and her dress is feminine, she made the decision to make the change of legal signature for her professional career.
She shared that in her attempt to want to take the exam for the square, being a dance teacher, she was denied when she arrived as a female, and presented documents of a male.
She narrated that when she left the race she was given a job in a primary school in Guasave and was fired because a father identified her and looked at her dressed as a woman, when at school she always went as a boy, having to cover her identity to avoid being discriminated against and being allowed to work. She currently works as a dance teacher in different schools, hired seasonally, but wants to take the exam to find a place in the SEPyC.  “I want to fight for my hours, my classes and do it officially as a woman and appear as a dance teacher,” she said. We recommend you read: Michelle, winner of Trans Girl in Mazatlan on June 18, thanked the support provided and made herself available to other transsexual people who want to do the procedure, which she did in Culiacán, because in Guasave the module is not yet opened. It is expected that within 15 days a gender identity module will start operating in Los Mochis.



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