Continuing debate over transvestite prostitution in Buenos Aires

About two years ago the city government made a regulation that prohibited prostitutes from offering their services within 200 metres of a school, church or residential building. This prohibition covered just about every street in the city so the prostitutes (nearly all transvestites) moved their business to a part of Palermo Woods called Rosedal. (I have read in the press that every night Rosedal receives around 3000 potential clients in cars or taxis looking to do business with the 200 or so "girls" offering their services there - not all at the same time of course.) Then two weeks ago, as a result of complaints by nearby residents and park users, the government extended the prohibition to this location also.

The transvestites were so incensed that they not only refused to leave the area but on the following Monday held a protest outside the city government offices and the following day the order was rescinded. The government offered to organise a meeting to include all interested parties to try and resolve the situation.

Accordingly last Monday (6th August) a meeting was held in the unlikely venue of the the Palermo Golf Club. The two principal parties (transvestites and residents) ended up agreeing to disagree - a suggestion that the business be moved to the area near the Planetarium was rejected by the transvestites. The government is now going to meet each group individually to try and find a way of resolving the issues.


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Argentina transvestite/transexual organisation gets legal recognition.

ALITT - Asociación de Lucha por la Identidad Travesti-Transexual / Fight for Transvestite-Transsexual Identity Association - has been granted legal recognition.
ALITT is a transvestite-transsexual organization that has been active in Argentina since 1997, devoted to promote and defend the human rights of transvestite and transsexual individuals in the country. Previous application for recognition had been denied but this decision has now been overturned.
You can read more about ALITT in English at the web site of IGLHRC and how the association came to be founded at the web site of ASTRAEA

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Bricklayer by day, transvestite by night.

Alcides Dante Waldemar Saravia (22) worked as a bricklayer with a construction company in the city of Rosario, Province of Santa Fe, Argentina. By night the same person is called Silvina and works as a transvestite prostitute on the streets of the city.

He has made a complaint of discrimination to the Civil Rights department of the city government of Rosario after being transferred to other work laying pavements in another part of the city.

Translated and summarised from the original story in La Capital see Un albañil denunció que lo echaron de una empresa por ser travesti

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