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Venezuela Elects First Transgender Congresswoman in the Amer
Venezuela Elects First Transgender Congresswoman in the Americas
she's the first "from Canadá to Patagonia" 
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Tamara Adrian (61), a lawyer and advocate for LGBT rights, is part of the opposition coalition that overwhelmingly conquered Venezuela’s National Assembly.
Transgender woman Tamara Adrian secured a seat as a member of the National Assembly. “Yesterday, Venezuela demolished its own Berlin Wall,” Adrian tells Out. Her candidacy already represented a milestone in Venezuelan politics, but with her triumph she becomes the first transgender congresswoman of the nation and, according to her, of the Americas.
“Venezuela is going through the worst economic, social and cultural crisis ever recorded,” Adrian says, explaining that her agenda includes giving visibility to the problems that the Venezuelan LGBT community systematically faces. “We have to talk about the rights of couples and families, about the gender identity Act, about the mutilation of intersex children, and about discrimination, which includes hate crimes, bullying, workplace harassment, and access to housing and healthcare.”
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http://www.out.com/news-opinion/2015...oman-continent
Certainly the progress in the Americas about LGBT rights are remarkable in several countries, but Venezuela is not one of them, Even according to the law, her name is still Tomás. and it's gonna be very exciting to see her in the National Assembly raising her voice for that.
She's the third transgender congresswoman in the world I believe.
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