Amaranta Gómez Regalado

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Amaranta Gómez Regalado

Amaranta Gómez Regalado (* 1977 ) is a Muxe - social anthropologist , political candidate, HIV -Präventions activist , social researcher , columnist and supporter of the pre-Columbian indigenous cultural identity .

biography

Born in 1977 in a Zapotec village near the Guatemala border, Gómez called herself Amaranta during puberty after reading Hundred Years of Solitude , the famous work of the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez .

During high school, Gómez Regalado studied languages ​​and theater in Veracruz . As part of a transvestism show, she then traveled to several states in southern Mexico.

In October 2002, she broke her left arm so badly in a car accident that it had to be amputated .

In 2015, she managed to have her gender identity changed on her birth certificate , which allowed her to have other official documents such as a passport changed. This was made possible by the reforms adopted by the former Asamblea Legislativa de la Ciudad de México to allow people to legally change their gender identity on their birth certificate through a single administrative process.

From 2011 to 2016 she studied social anthropology at the Universidad Veracruzana. Her master's thesis ( tesis de licenciatura ) was entitled Guendaranaxhii: The Muxe Community of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Emotional Erotic Relationships .

activism

In 2003, at the age of 25, she gained international fame as a congressional candidate for the Mexico Posible Party in the Mexican elections to the 2003 federal congress, but did not get a seat. Their broad platform included calls for the decriminalization of marijuana and abortion .

Amaranta Gomez Regalado School

In Chile , the first trans-gender school was opened in 2018 as a special educational institution for girls and boys who were denied respect in other schools.

The impetus for this school came from the “Gender Identity Act”, which was passed by President Sebastian Pinera under the motto:

"Everyone with their freedom and creativity is the real engine of society and everyone has to be the architect of their own life."

The idea came up in December 2017 and was realized with the first class in 2018 with five children. 22 children are currently attending this facility, but they are not doing very well for lack of money.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Peralta Vázquez: “Soy la primera muxe en obtener un título profesional”: Amaranta Gómez. In: Universo - Sistema de noticias de la UV. Universidad Veracruzana, accessed August 7, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Redacción: Amaranta Gómez: Cómo es la primera escuela para alumnos transgénero de América Latina . May 17, 2019 (Spanish, bbc.com [accessed August 7, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Marcela Espíndola: Gestando un nombre propio. (No longer available online.) In: artemisanoticias.com.ar. July 26, 2006, archived from the original on March 8, 2016 ; accessed on August 30, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ a b Soledad Vallejos: La tercera posición. Entrevista. (No longer available online.) In: pagina12.com.ar. July 21, 2006, archived from the original on January 23, 2010 ; accessed on August 30, 2019 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ periodistasdigitales: Estudiante de la UV cambia legalmente de identidad de género. In: Plumas libres. April 2, 2015, Retrieved August 7, 2019 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ Héctor Cruz López: Aprueba la Asamblea ley para cambio de identidad de género | La Crónica de Hoy. In: cronica.com.mx. November 14, 2014, accessed August 7, 2019 (Spanish).
  7. ↑ Las cien vidas amaranta. In: Revista Anfíbia, accessed August 30, 2019.
  8. ↑ Matías Máximo: Guendaranadxii; la comunidad Muxhe del istmo de Tehuantepec y las relaciones erótico afectivas. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 7, 2017 ; accessed on August 30, 2019 (Spanish, link broken; no mementos).
  9. ^ Antonio Medina: La nueva visibilidad lésbico-gay . In: LETRA S , June 5, 2003. 
  10. ↑ Archived profile from Amaranta Gómez Regalado for the WorldOut Games in Copenhagen 2009 . Wayback Machine Internet Archive. January 11, 2016. Archived from the original on July 21, 2009.
  11. ↑ a b c d Editor: Amaranta Gómez: First transgender school in Chile. latinapress Nachrichten, February 10, 2019, accessed August 7, 2019 .
  12. ↑ a b Amaranta Gómez, la primera escuela transgénero de Chile. In: notimerica.com. February 10, 2019, accessed August 7, 2019 (Spanish).
  13. ^ A b Latin America's first transgender school inspired by Mexican activist and muxhe. In: Aztec Reports. January 28, 2019, Retrieved August 7, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Gómez Regalado, Amaranta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican muxe social anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1977