Buenos Aires transvestites agree to move

According to a report here - http://www.sentidog.com/article.php?id_news=21025 - the "working" transvestites of Buenos Aires have agreed to move their business to a new approved location next to the Lawn Tennis Club.

The original report is in Spanish so here is a translation by Google of the first few paragraphs -

" After years of dispute, back and forth, there was agreement. The Government of Buenos Aires confirmed that the travesties that usually worked in El Rosedal Palermo agreed to move to an area near the Lawn Tennis Club. The new circuit complies with the law stipulates that the offer of sex in the street must take place within 300 metres of housing.

Officials of the Ministry of Public Space met for two hours with representatives of the association of Travestis, Transsexuals and Transgender of Argentina (ATTTA). After the meeting, came confirmation: the first official red zone of the city will be located in the square Florencio Sanchez, behind the Hippodrome and next to the tennis club.

"We will enforce the law that says the travesties have to be 300 metres from homes. Today in El Rosedal that is not fulfilled," he said in statements this morning radio chief Cabinet Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta.

Between 100 and 200 travestis working since 2005 in the Rosedal and receive about 3,000 clients per night. The activity generated strong protests from neighbors, who for years have been demanding the move."

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