Without the surgery that would change his life, he looks for those who go through the same in Neuquén

Squeeze.Hurts.In the body, yes, and in the soul too.Trans people who cannot access surgeries to adapt their body live a daily life from which few people are aware and, much less, can imagine.Therefore, a group of young trans women was organized to claim that in Neuquén a law that has been in force since 2012.

The famous Gender Identity Law establishes, in its article 11, the "right to free personal development".Guarantees access to total and partial surgical interventions and/or hormonal integral treatments, without the need for judicial or administrative authorizations.

The regulations propose that the procedure must be simple.The trans person must give the consent, their health professional has to present the Surgery and Public Health Project to dispose of everything necessary to be carried out.This last task, in Neuquén, falls to the Castro Rendón hospital, the one with the greatest complexity of the province.

However, surgeries only remain a postponed need, Agustina Cisneros said.The option that the process is covered by a social work is almost unthinkable.First, because the one that most trans people do not have access, and those who do, must wait for the lack of lack to file an amparo and, if accepted, that the long process of adapting the body begins.

Given this panorama, Agustina decided to promote the organization of a group after almost four years of insisting on the operation.

While he could start with hormonal treatment, the only answer he gets when he asks for the operation is that there is "a waiting list".Agustina said that it is only symbolic, a euphemism that reflects the many trans people who are in the same situation.

The 18 -year -old told her and her mother have told them that there are no trained professionals.Agustina said that the province only trained a surgeon, who resigned as soon as she returned from doing the course in Spain, but that there are others willing to take the homework.

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All obstacles did not make her desist, but it was no matter how much: "I would like to cry, but if I do nothing, if they don't listen to me, nobody is going to do anything"

With this impetus, he contacted a surgeon of Santa Fe willing to travel to Neuquén to carry out surgeries and train his colleagues.He said that, for his solution proposal to reach the Government, he presented it to the Provincial Directorate of Diversity.Now he hopes that a meeting with the Ministry of Health can be completed, to give more details and that his idea will be endorsed.

While telling her work on the subject, the young woman repeated several times that she does not want to be victimized, but needs to understand what a trans person lives daily, while waiting for surgery.

For example, the pain they suffer with underwear.Women use the trucadores, whose elastic fits on the hips and tight fabric shakes the legs.Men use elastic girdles for breasts, which squeeze the entire torso.“Imagine when they come and have everything inflamed, the pain that is that.Or the days that made so much heat, that they have to put a shirt on top.We pass us with the corpiños with filling, ”said Agustina.

Using underwear that hurts, for giving only one example, limits social ties and mobility, which ends up influencing multiple ways, such as job search, sports practice or educational training.

Thinking about it from an aesthetic criteria is far from reality, more when the psychological aspect is addressed.Have a body with which a person does not identify "fuck, trauma, frustrates", described the young woman.It also makes it difficult to establish sexual ties and healthy sexuality.To this we must add that many trans people do not have the containment of their family.

The sexologist Cecilia Canzenetta, popularly known as the "Lic.Cecilia CE, "he explains in his last book," Carnival all his life ".«Trans people do not choose to feel that way, it is not a whim, it is not something passenger, it is not‘ pleasure to disturb others ’.Trans people put the body throughout their lives, undergo painful treatments during their transition and suffer from a very high social violence «.

“I think the problem is not only the disinterest of the State, but it does not touch them closely.If the daughter or son of the Minister of Health would have happened to him, he would be resolved, ”said Agustina.Those who want to join the group or make consultations can look for it on Instagram such as Galeana Agustina or on Facebook as Galeana Tobio, but to use on social networks the hashtags #transargentina, #galeanaagustina or #consultagaleana.