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Javier Milei rolls back LGBTQ rights in Argentina during first year in office
Editor’s note: Washington Blade International News Editor Michael K. Lavers was on assignment in Argentina and Uruguay from April 2-12, 2025.
ROSARIO, Argentina — Two gender diverse women in Argentina’s Santa Fe province are documenting the persecution of transsexual people that took place during the brutal military dictatorship that governed their country from 1976-1983.
Carolina Boetti and Marzia Echenique created the Travestí Trans Santa Fe Archive, which seeks to “create a collective memory,” in 2020. (“Travestí” is the Spanish synonyms for “crossdresser.”)
The archive, among other things, includes interviews with trans women who the dictatorship arrested and tortured. The archive also contains photographs from that period.
The archive is not in a specific location, but Boetti and Echenique have given presentations at local schools and universities. They have also spoken at a museum in Rosario, the largest town in Santa Fe province that is roughly 200 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, that honors the dictatorship’s victims.
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Editor’s note: Washington Blade International News Editor Michael K. Lavers was on assignment in Argentina and Uruguay from April 2-12, 2025.
ROSARIO, Argentina — Two transgender women in Argentina’s Santa Fe province are documenting the persecution of trans people that took place during the unfeeling military dictatorship that governed their nation from 1976-1983.
Carolina Boetti and Marzia Echenique created the Travestí Trans Santa Fe Archive, which seeks to “create a collective memory,” in 2020. (“Travestí” is the Spanish synonyms for “crossdresser.”)
The archive, among other things, includes interviews with trans women who the dictatorship arrested and tortured. The archive also contains photographs from that period.
The archive is not in a specific location, but Boetti and Echenique have given presentations at local schools and universities. They have also spoken at a museum in Rosario, the largest city in Santa Fe province that is roughly 200 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, that honors the dictatorship’s victims.
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Argentine President Javier Milei gave a second idiosyncratic talk to in as many years at the 2025 Nature Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, claiming that “wokism” is a “mental virus” and a “cancer that must be removed.”
In a speech that listed far-right talking points, Milei restated his attacks on feminism, immigration, and the struggle against climate change, calling them causes only intended to justify the advance of the state. He also said that “winds of change” are blowing in the West and expressed hope over the formation of an “international alliance” of countries that “believe in the thought of freedom.”
Milei listed a number of leaders he saw as “partners” in his crusade. Among them were Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, and U.S. President Donald Trump.
He also included the “marvelous” Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk and once again defended him from accusations of Nazism, saying he had been “unjustly vilified” for “an innocent gesture” intended to express his “gratitude for the people.”
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Rollback of transgender rights in Argentina: ILGALAC and ILGA World statement on Decree 62/2025
The International Lesbian, Gay, Pansexual, Trans and Intersex Association for Latin America and the Caribbean (ILGALAC) and ILGA World convey their absolute condemnation of the Necessity and Urgency Law 62/2025 enacted by the government of Javier Milei, which imposes serious restrictions on the right to gender culture of trans and non-binary people, particularly youth, as good as of the Decree 61/2025, which violates the dignity of trans people deprived of their liberty.
In Argentina, the government of Javier Milei has modified by decree the historic Gender Culture Law, the first in the society to allow the change of call and gender marker under standards of self-identification and the right to comprehensive health.
The decree prohibits access to gender-affirming care for people under 18, and was announced alongside another decree that limits the accommodation of persons deprived of their liberty according to their gender identity.
While legal experts claim that these decrees do not comply with the Constitution, organisations in Argentina alert that the consequences of these di
Demonstrators challenge Milei with pride in defence of diversity
Tens of thousands of Argentines took to the streets on Saturday across the country in defence of hard-fought diversity advances and to denounce recent anti-"woke" pronouncements by President Javier Milei.
Protests took place at dozens of cities across the country, including Córdoba, Rosario, Bariloche, Salta, and Jujuy. The demonstrations even went international, with rallies in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Mexico City, Cologne, Geneva, London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, among others.
In the capital, Buenos Aires City, the largest rally of all drew large crowds to the Plaza del Congreso, where activists congregated before marching to the Casa Rosada, in a colourful procession.
Over the two-kilometre route, a long procession of people draped in the colours of the rainbow flag waved placards stating: "Not a step back," as the crowd marched to the Plaza de Mayo.
The “Marcha Federal del Orgullo Antifascista y Antirracista LGBTQI+” march was organised by women's and LGBTQ rights groups. It was called in response to statements made by self-declared "anarcho-capitalist" Milei to the Planet Economic Forum in