Something that we have been lacking lately, this time the good news comes from South America (I couldn’t find any good news locally).
Hopefully the change for us will come on November 6th and then again in 2020.
Vote blue! We cannot afford to split our votes around on fringe candidates who have no hope of winning. Otherwise we will end up again with Trump again and elected legislators who are Trump-want-a-bes.
Uruguay passes a groundbreaking trans equality law as the US rolls back rightsMeanwhile here the Trump is doing everything they can to erase us.
LGBTQ Nation
By Gwendolyn Smith
October 24, 2018
Uruguay’s general assembly has passed a historic law protecting the rights of transgender people in the country.
The Uruguayan senate previously approved the law, known as “Ley Integral de Persona Trans.” The bill has now passed their senate.
Under the law, treatment options for transgender people are defined as a right. Transgender people in Uruguay will be able to have appropriate medical care, including hormone treatment and surgical options paid for by the government.
It also sets aside 1% of government jobs for the transgender community, ensuring transgender employment within the Uruguayan government for the next 15 years.
“Trans people don’t reach old age,” said Tania Ramirez, from the Ministry of Social Development in Uruguay, to Marketplace. “They are a vulnerable community and the police and the state detained and tortured trans people during the dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s and these tactics continued into the democratic era.”A ray of hope, change does come.
Hopefully the change for us will come on November 6th and then again in 2020.
Vote blue! We cannot afford to split our votes around on fringe candidates who have no hope of winning. Otherwise we will end up again with Trump again and elected legislators who are Trump-want-a-bes.
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