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Argentina’s liberal gender law
Three years ago Argentina made it legal for all its citizens to choose to reassign their official gender. How much has that changed things?
by Angeline Montoya
“Today is a day of reparation. I’m sorry it’s been such a long wait,” said President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in 2012, amazing Argentina’s trans community. She said it as the first identity card was issued to formalise a change of gender for a citizen registered as male at birth who wished (...)
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