American's can call the rest of the world the 3rd world, however, in the 6 years I spent in Buenos Aires, all I saw was a friendly people, a beautiful cosmopolitan city, and a lack of the trans/homophobia that I see in the States.
And Argentina has once again taken the lead in progressive thinking by their most recent announcement by the Security Ministry, stated it "is allowing transsexual members of federal police and security forces to be recognized under the gender that they’ve adopted." AP goes on to say in their article that the new ministry resolution also lets transsexuals wear the uniforms and use the facilities matching their adopted gender. The order affects members of the federal, naval and airport police and the gendarmerie.
It just goes to show how far things have come in the last decade.
There have been so many changes that I think we sometimes become a bit jaded and don't recognize all that has been achieved. In the 1960s you could be arrested for simply being cross-dressed in public!
And Argentina has once again taken the lead in progressive thinking by their most recent announcement by the Security Ministry, stated it "is allowing transsexual members of federal police and security forces to be recognized under the gender that they’ve adopted." AP goes on to say in their article that the new ministry resolution also lets transsexuals wear the uniforms and use the facilities matching their adopted gender. The order affects members of the federal, naval and airport police and the gendarmerie.
It just goes to show how far things have come in the last decade.
There have been so many changes that I think we sometimes become a bit jaded and don't recognize all that has been achieved. In the 1960s you could be arrested for simply being cross-dressed in public!
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