Lohana Berkins

[4] Faced with the impossibility of doing so with her name, she lodged a complaint with the Ombudsman of the City of Buenos Aires, which ordered the school authorities to respect her gender identity.

[5] She was a legislative adviser (mandate fulfilled) at the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires for the Communist Party (led by Patricio Echegaray), thus becoming the first travesti person with a public job.

The labor enterprise managed and administrated by travesti people was inaugurated in mid 2008, in a place donated by the National Institute of Associations and Social Economy.

The Gender Identity Law was approved by the Argentine parliament on 9 May 2012 and promulgated by the President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner a few days later, becoming the most advanced in the world in this matter so far.

On 20 July 2011, the government of the Province of Buenos Aires awarded her a distinction – as the owner of the Nadia Echazú Textile Cooperative – called "The Inclusion Tree".