BUENOS AIRES - Thomas Casavieja has just started a new job in a Buenos Aires bank, excited at a legislative breakthrough that establishes a hiring quota for transgender people like himself in Argentina's public sector.
"It's come at the cost of many deaths in our collective, even though Argentina has been a pioneer in the area of rights," he told AFP."More than just the significance of working, these are real concrete things, like being able to have a pension, having access to health insurance and to have colleagues that care about you."
In the first 6 months of this year, 69 hate crimes were registered against members of the community in Argentina, according to the Institute Against Discrimination at the Office of the Ombudsman. "Those 5 years that we gained in our lives are the result of social struggles. In this context, the quota is a historic step," Rueda noted.Before the government decree was announced, Casavieja had been taken on by the state-owned Banco de la Nacion as an advisor, and hopes to make the temporary job permanent under the new law.
"Working at the bank is an opportunity to change my reality, but also that of clients and co-workers. Married and with plans to have a family, Casavieja believes "a cultural and social change is needed that has nothing to do with laws but with paradigms."Susy Shock, a trans writer and singer, welcomes the quota but says it's just the first step in a long road to acceptance.
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