Amaranta Gómez Regalado (born 1977) is a Mexican Muxe social anthropologist,[1] political candidate, HIV prevention activist, social researcher, columnist and promoter of pre-Columbian indigenous cultural identity.

Gómez was born in 1977 in a Zapotec village close to the border of Guatemala and adopted the name of Amaranta during adolescence, after reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, the famous work of Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.

[4] This was possible from the reforms approved by what was once the Legislative Assembly of Mexico City to allow people to legally change their gender identity in their birth certificate, through only an administrative procedure.

Her undergraduate thesis was titled Guendaranaxhii: the Muxe community of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the emotional erotic relations.

[6] At the age of 25, she gained international prominence as a candidate for the México Posible party in the 2003 elections to the Federal Congress.