The local transgender community in Bolivia is celebrating the country’s new gender law which allows trans individuals to register for identity cards with updated personal information.

Last week, trans activist Pamela Geraldine Valenzuela was the first to get her new updated ID card in a ceremony presided over by the mayor of La Paz, Luis Revilla.

‘I wouldn’t let myself stop in my fight until I arrived at this moment, until the state recognised all transgender people in accordance with the identity that we have completely assumed,’ said Valenzuela, who transitioned at age 15.

She told Reuters: ‘It took me more than 30 years for this change and in these 30 years I have suffered so much discrimination, so much psychological, verbal and even physical violence. I believe that everything that has happened has come to fruition.’

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