First Indigenous Trans Person Runs For Parliament In Peru
Gahela Cari is the first indigenous trans candidate to run for parliament in Peru, reports the ‘Digital Journal’. Cari says it is time to end the culture of machismo in the South American country.
“I suffered, in my own flesh, the consequences of inequality, discrimination, violence and corruption,” she said in an interview.
“We have to stop educating future macho men. I'm an animal-rights advocate, an ecologist and a student leader. I come from that part of the left that has always fought,” she continued.
She added that “in a country that teaches you to be ashamed, a country that educates in order to repress you, to describe yourself as an indigenous trans person is already revolutionary. It is using your body to fight; fighting without even uttering a word. We need to stop raising future macho men, future homophobes, future transphobes and woman killers. We need education with respect. I have suffered transphobic bullying in school.”
Cari is running as a candidate for the left party Together for Peru.
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