Monica VistaLite
CARACAS - Giannina Cadenas I opened the door, a girl of Italian descent, a beautiful and elegant. He smiles and looks very busy. "I'm preparing two new projects television, "he explains while looking at the mirror behind me a while to mend 'hair.
Giannina has artificial fingernails and breasts. Not surprising for a young woman from the small screen in Latin America. But unlike all the other girls on TV, she has a penis that does not wish for now.
"I am a pioneer - he says with satisfaction -. They are the first transgender to conduct a television program in Venezuela, "The sexual Brújula. Remain in the history of my country and this fills me with pride. "
Giannina knows he is lucky. He has a good job, a family that has accepted its "sessodiversità" and a boyfriend for seven years. E 'an example of how the word "trans" is not necessarily unhealthy or an icon synonymous with "prostitute."
"My parents did not expect this from me, were not prepared. But with the help of a psychologist, have been able to support me in everything. If they had reacted differently, if I had been rejected or abandoned, a person would become vulnerable and weak. I'd be over the street, I would have abandoned all principles and values \u200b\u200bthat I believe. "
Here, then, the voice of someone who has done it: echo to the voiceless. "We are human beings, as all. But the mere fact of being ourselves, the community often overwhelms us and condemn us. Do you feel alone, unacceptable, depressed. Lose yourself in the security, self-esteem. And so, in a moment, you can fall into drug addiction. If you add to this the fact that the path doctor for the process of transit is very expensive and for us it is very difficult to find a job - he adds - you understand why many transsexuals and transgender people working on the sidewalks. When in fact we, as ordinary people who we are, do any work. "
Giannina not wrong. For, unfortunately, a transsexual at the counter of a bank or supermarket would be a novelty. Much more convenient to think of the cross street, or in a club Streap.
With its irreverent program, devoted to sexuality in all its forms, Giannina fought against the "high rates of discrimination that still hang over the lives of those who falls outside the bounds of heterosexist dominant society." He fought to "eliminate the cross carried by all those who, for a living, are forced to walk down the street in a suit and tie and inside they feel unhappy."
the base of the sterile widespread tolerance in this historic moment in respect of sexual diversity, "far from the true social acceptance," according to Jeannie there is a profound ignorance and a great difficulty to talk about their sexuality.
"We need to reinvent education, strengthen. I'm sick of people, especially to confirm the legend of the 'envelope' of the cross, he asks me what size my penis. We must make it clear that being transgender is not a disease but a simple condition of separation between soul and body, between biological sex and psychological. " Giannina is resolute in its determination: "We must eliminate sexual and gender diversity from the morbid blanket around her and transforms it into something negative and dirty in sex, when they cover issues relevant psychological and emotional. must explain what the difference between a transsexual and a transgenero explain the course of transit from a medical point of view, to understand that a man attracted to a transsexual is not gay. This man seeks in fact the female figure. It should also clarify the distance between anosessualità and homosexuality. The people - still the leader - must have a clear overview of all emotional and sexual orientation, 360 degrees, and for that we need to talk and show that we exist. Here, not on another planet. People believe that because the world is configured in a certain way, there can be variations. Yet here we are, on display, like so many in history. "
There is a lot to fight for. The human journey, a sessodiverso, it is often difficult and full of suffering. From the earliest years of life: "When you're small and the clothes that you bring the games that they give you do not like - said Giannina -. Already five years to realize that external reality is not what you have in your little head, in your little world. And you are forced to follow a road for the mere fact of having a penis. "
Growing up, things become even more difficult: "As a teenager you are in a tragic limbo and wonder who you are. The people around watching you and judge you. 's classmates make fun of you giving homosexual when in fact you know you'll never be gay just because you feel a woman, not a man. "
"And when you finally decide to 'become who you are' - continues Giannina - tremble with fear. Fear the reaction of family and friends, not like after an operation issues, themes for your health issues to stay under the knife, issues at the thought of living the rest of your life as a segregated and discriminated against, unacceptable, only. Because of all the homophobic and transphobic, victims of an unconscious mechanism that leads them to cover their backs in front of the new they do not know what frightens and attracts them. They are afraid of being touched by the weakness of the flesh and in our culture is something quite negative. "
Especially in a country like Venezuela, governed by the laws of beauty, the difficulties are particularly acute for transgender women. As he points out Giannina, "if a transsexual male often enough to cut their hair and take a particular posture to feel at ease, not to give too much attention, and then feel more accepted, female transsexuals are not particularly attractive or suffer aggrazziate terribly: they are the most abused category at every level. In the end - regrets - that's the beauty that is approved, the aesthetically pleasing. "
In general, for transsexuals remain intact sessodiversità qualms about confessing his family and friends, the unstoppable verbal and physical violence because of transphobia, and the widespread practice of 'confine' the transsexual partner or in a sphere transgenero because of illegal immigration, as he explains Giannina, "the other is afraid to appear in public, so even if you want a stable relationship, not lean."
But fortunately our society is in transit: young people no longer have too much difficulty accepting their differences, some countries such as Spain, Colombia and Chile have begun to recognize the possibility to change the name on the documents, the trans community is increasingly visible and press all over the world to see their rights respected citizens.
be recognized as citizens with full rights and voting is essential to ensure that not only the current form of society is an obstacle. Even the law of the State, in fact, may constitute a significant impediment to the daily life of a transsexual or transgender. A country which does not recognize your way of life is, in fact, a country that can not accept you in a clinic because your body does not reflect what is written on the documents, a country that legitimizes the chaos when transgenero want to use a powder room or a hospital department to enter into male or female, a country that forces you to tell something absolutely intimate and certify every time you use a passport or credit card.
A country that violates the privacy of a minority for which there are no protective laws.
But the awakening is general and the historical moment is perfect for a fight on all fronts. Of course, as is hoped Giannina, "We need profound union between all civil associations worldwide, who are carrying on their struggle separately when they should merge and fight as a united front."
In the meantime, we wish it to Reuben, who expects a transsexual English twins arrive in September, the result of artificial insemination.
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