Argentina, gender self-id and risk to women

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I thought this was an interesting article. 10 years ago Argentina passed the world's first law allowing trans people to change legal gender on demand. There were/are concerns that this would put women at risk.

Officials say data shows no rise in violence against women.

"We haven't had situations of violence from our travesti and trans sisters," said Candelaria Botto of Ecofeminita, one of the country's most prominent feminist groups. Other feminist groups FEIM, ELA and Colectiva La Revuelta agreed.

Greta Pena, a senior policy officer at Argentina's equality ministry, said there was no evidence of any rise in violence against non-trans women since the law was passed.

The article also says that one trans woman (of 12,655 who changed their legal gender) was convicted of sexual abuse and cites 2 instances (over a 10 year period) of men 'abusing the loophole' to go to women's prisons.

www.openlynews.com/i/?id=21757767-4909-4844-922f-41903ff042f8

Obviously there are differences between Argentina and the UK. The differences between life expectancy for trans people here Vs argentina seem stark, with those in Argentina sadly dying much earlier and having less access to employment.

I'd be interested to hear thoughts - whether people find this reassuring, or not relevant at all.

*give an inch - I don't know where the "inch" disappeared to

Good point

I said maybe I'm mistaken because tbh this argument is new and there are nuances that I'm not knowledgeable enough or that I haven't consider enough to talk about. So I do like to be enlightened about different aspects and different arguments 😉

Hoy en día, a casi cinco años de la Ley de Identidad de Gé- nero en la Argentina, manifestar la identidad autopercibida lleva a que aproximadamente el 98% de las personas travestis y trans no acceda a un trabajo formal y un 79% de las personas travestis y trans caiga en las redes de prostitución como único ingreso económico, lo^ cual acarrea mayor exclusión y vulneración, alcanzando un prome- dio de vida de 35 años. Por este motivo, pensar en las compañeras que superan esta edad es pensar en sobrevivientes.^

The Revolution of the Butterfiles report is quoted as a primary source of statistics in one report, but they are just referring to the well known and false "life expectancy of 35" claim, or alternatively they refer to the other Argentine report mentioned where a large proportion of the sample were HIV positive MTF, most were in prostitution and a considerable majority died of HIV related illnesses.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge of the country.