“Hello. Well, I changed everything because I find the debate that is taking place very interesting. I appreciate the invitation, but I want to speak as a journalist, since I am part of *the daily left *.
There is something that Marlén says that is true, but it seems to me that a bit of our reality is missing, the one that was very present in the preparation of the march. You have to walk ten blocks to go to eleven, a little more to go to Constitution, and see what is the reality that transvestites live every night: the police rankings there are. As a journalist, many allegations of missing hormones, reagents, and not only from the city of Buenos Aires, but also from the province.
Another of the things that was spoken a lot here is of fear of leaving. But it seems to me that, in the face of the speeches that Milei gave in Davos, that they were an attack towards our community, saying that “that they kill you for being a woman is a privilege” and all the stupidities that he said, this goes in the sense of the economic attack that is carrying out. Because health, education and housing are not a privilege, they are our rights, and those rights are what we have to defend in the first instance.
Secondly, I was a worker of the Tutelar Public Ministry of the City of Buenos Aires for two and a half years. I worked with transvestite trans population. Here there are many present with which I have surely chatted, but they have not seen my face. It was me. It was working with many childhoods and adolescents in homes.
And there is a question that always had left:
*”Tomás, Tom, Gordo, what do I do when I am 18 years old? Because now all good: you accompany me to the hospital, you fight with the school managers, you talk to my family … But, what am I going to do When I am 18? “*
My answer, thanks to what my life experience was, is to organize. You have to organize that anger and that hatred. For me, the word * hate * has to do with the hatred of class that I felt when I was a teenager and when I became trans, when the National Identity Law was not yet.
I am from Rosario. I came to Buenos Aires because *God is everywhere, but attends here *. And here I met activists who are present, such as Daniela Ruiz, Marlén, and people who are gone.
There is a phrase that Diana Sacayán said that I also had to resonate: *”Being transformative subjects of society.” *
Because I am also tired that our identity is associated with consumption problems, violence. That in the cinema you see a movie and we end up dead. There is no talk that we can study. There is no talk that we can have a trade. There is no talk that we can be teachers and teach, as we do.
We have to defend the Comprehensive Sexual Education Law, because in the place where I worked, the numbers are clear: 80% of the childhoods that denounced an abuse did so thanks to the ESI, thanks to teaching, thanks to the drawings that They are made. Because there is a lot of misinformation and many *fake news *, but reality is not on Twitter.
Reality is in the streets. Reality is in the assemblies we knew how to organize. Reality is even here. Although, as Marlén says, it is a rather distorted reality, because our group has a lot of numbers:
But I want to stop mentioning those numbers to begin to mention that we were the group that went out to face this government of Milei. Who went out to put a brake on hate speeches. That he went out to say that this hatred and that discrimination cease to be a state policy.
I am left -handed, and I am proud to be left -handed. Because he told us we had to run … and we ran. We ran to the street. We fill the square.
And it seems to me that discrimination as a state policy also reaches other sides. I was with deputy Cristian Castillo yesterday in *Prair *, where there are ten delegates who were fired. And one of them approached me and told me:
*”You know that I have a non -binary child. Can you help me?”*
I was talking with him. It does not only have to do with us and with our group.
Here there are mothers present. There are brothers, there are uncles, there are people, because this is a collective struggle. Because discrimination later reproduces, as in Shell, where there is a woman who is being fired for fighting for a nursery, which is a historical demand for the women’s movement. Have a nursery in your place of study. That women charge the same as men.
So, in the face of the question of *What to do *, I think you have to break with the obstacles that we have. Because meritocracy sometimes sneaks and makes us feel that we are alone.
That is why teenagers are depressed. That is why they think and are afraid to go out.
I believe that we are not alone, or alone or soles.
I believe that those of us who are here have the responsibility of going to our organizations, to the places where we militate, to the places where we work and, as I said, ask ourselves: *”What do we do?” *
Go back to the street this March 8. Tell feminisms to listen to us. Tell the workers to listen to us.
And, above all, I want to mention the struggle of the Goodparte Hospital and the Posadas Hospital, which serve us to our population.
We will be resisting with them in the head of this march.
And you have to have faith.
You have to have organized fury.
Because they won’t pass.
Gracias”.
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