teleSUR English | 2/7/2017
Diane Rodriguez doesn’t lie to herself, and she doesn’t want other trans women to lie to themselves either.
“The fight, the legitimate fight, the fight that seeks structural changes in a society, must be public: with a clean and open face, showing and saying who I really am,” Rodriguez, Ecuador’s first openly trans candidate for national assembly, told teleSUR. “It’s useless for me to put myself in a closet and to keep fighting, it’s impossible.”
Rodiguez has also drawn international headlines for being the first Ecuadorean to marry another trans person and for being the first trans couple to have a baby — given, of course, an androgynous name. But she’s not setting out to make headlines, she’s out to open doors for her LGBTI family. With their political participation, she said, comes a larger structural change in Ecuadorean society, a mental shift in how to view and treat the LGBTI community.
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Naomi Cohen | journalist 