Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six
Gabriella Mansilla successfully campaigned to change her child Luana's gender on official documents. It followed the 2012 introduction of the Gender Identity Act in Argentina.
In 2013, a six-year-old from Argentina became one of the youngest people in the world to legally have their gender changed on official documents through self-declaration.
It followed the introduction of the Gender Identity Act in 2012, that aimed to reduce the exclusion of transgender people.
But as Luana's mother Gabriela Mansilla reveals, the fight for recognition wasn’t easy. Gabriela speaks to Madeleine Drury.
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(Photo: Luana hugging her mother Gabriela Mansilla in 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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