On May 9, 2012, with 55 affirmative votes, no negative votes, and one abstention, the Senate approved Law 26,743, which allows people to register on their DNI with their name, photo and gender identity.
By Team Grow-gender and work.-
He May 9, 2012 was sanctioned Gender Identity Law (LIG), No. 26,743. As with most anniversaries, this date crystallizes a long process of social activism that does not account for the disputes that its text reflects, the difficulties of its implementation, the discussions that it enabled in Argentine society and the trail it left in the LGTBI+ collective, and in society in general, at a regional and international level.
The regulations consolidate a historical claim from the Transvestite Trans organizations and the LGBTINB+ community: the right to identity self-determination. It meant an enormous leap in the recognition of human rights for a group that has a history of state and social persecution for long decades. In this sense, Grow-gender and work accompanies the process of generating spaces free of violence and discrimination through a multiplicity of devices that contribute to the transformation of the world of work.
Identity, society and memory
Talk about the right to identity It has a political and emotional history in our country. The human rights organizations that appeared after the last civil-military dictatorship emphasized the right to identity due to the illicit appropriation of babies and newbornsfundamentally Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo. However What do Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo have to do with transvestites and transsexuals? From the letter of support from Abuelas to the activist Karina Urbina at the beginning of the 90s to the articulations with Lohana Berkins, identity is a common territory that breaks down the social and police siege that for years plagued the transvestite trans collective.
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The same happens with the women’s and feminist movements, it is no coincidence that Virginia Woolf reflected on her own room or that the slogan “the personal is political” has acquired so much relevance. Accordingly, The LIG is the first to incorporate “gender” into the Argentine legal framework, and it means a huge change for all people. Invites the entire society to do not think of biology as destinyand to inhabit and express gender from desire, freedom and self-determination.
Letter from Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo to Karina Urbina, 1992.jpg
What impact does identity have in the workplace?
First, What do we understand by gender identity? Is about “the internal and individual experience of gender as each person feels it” may or may not correspond to the sex assigned at the time of birth (Gender Identity Law, 2012). In this sense, it constitutes our gateway to interact with other people. If we think about the current and historical exclusion of the trans and transvestite collective from the labor market, it is a clear example of the importance of guarantee the right to identity in that area.
From Grow-gender and workwe want to invite you to transform our culture of diversity and inclusion. Each space can carry out actions that bring us closer to the society we want. It’s not about waiting for a person’s discomfort. or that it challenges our standards to make changes, but to understand the importance of diversity within organizations, so that all people can feel included, and thus enable a multiplicity of desires and experiences.
Source: Ambito
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