Transgender rights in Argentina

[5] Leading transgender activists include Lohana Berkins, Diana Sacayán, Mariela Muñoz, María Belén Correa, Marlene Wayar, Claudia Pía Baudracco, Susy Shock and Lara Bertolini.

[6] The "Day of the Promotion of the Rights of Trans People" is celebrated in the city of Buenos Aires and in Santa Fe Province on March 18, in memory of Baudracco.

"[11] On June 18, 2018, a Buenos Aires court sentenced Gabriel David Marino to life imprisonment for the murder of transgender activist Diana Sacayán.

[18][19][20] The 2022 national census, carried out less than a year after the resolution was implemented, counted 8,293 (roughly 0.02%) of the country's population identifying with the "X / other" gender marker.

[21] The Ley de Género (Gender Law)[22] grants adults sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy as a part of their public or private health care plans.

[23] The law made Argentina the "only country that allows people to change their gender identities without facing barriers such as hormone therapy, surgery or psychiatric diagnosis that labels them as having an abnormality".

[5] On 4 September 2020, President Alberto Fernández signed decree 721/2020, which established a 1% employment quota for trans and travesti people in the national public sector.

[25] The initiative had previously been proposed by Argentine trans and travesti activists such as Diana Sacayán, whose efforts led to the promotion of such laws at the provincial level in Buenos Aires Province in 2015.