An Indigenous travesti with jasmines in her dark hair smiles at the world from today’s Google Doodle. She is wearing a poncho lined with the transgender flag and there’s a multitude marching behind her under a rainbow. Unlike its direct English translation, travesti in Argentina is a gender identity with deep political roots that is worn with pride. She had fought for the country’s new Gender Identity Law which allowed for that change— seminal legislation that defines gender identity as self-perceived, among other things. “When I go, I would wish for a mountain of flowers, the ones that those thousand loves I suffered for never knew to give me,” Sacayán wrote.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald July 03, 2023 02:22 UTC