We Just Want to Live Our Lives”: El Salvador's Need for Legal Gender Recognition
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The 40-page report, “‘We Just Want to Live Our Lives’: El Salvador’s Need for Legal Gender Recognition,” exposes the pervasive discrimination that trans people experience due to a mismatch between their gender and their identity documents. The researchers focused on discrimination in four key areas: health, employment, voting, and banking. Human Rights Watch and COMCAVIS TRANS found that a lack of accurate documents, often in combination with anti-trans bias, seriously impedes the realization of these rights for trans people.
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El Salvador Fails to Meet Deadline for Trans Rights Ruling
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April 2022 – SMU Perkins School of Theology
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Maria Camila Galvis Caballero (@LaVolsca) / X
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Same-sex marriage - Wikipedia
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