After several years of career, Flower of the Ve He had to change his name after losing a lawsuit that had been initiated by a woman who was named in the same way in which she had made herself known through the media.
“I started as Florencia de la Vega as a joke, because we all put ourselves fantasy names,” the actress and host told the magazine. People about that moment in which, what was a hard judicial setback, ended up encouraging her to become a voice always ready to shout the demands of the trans collective.
“I started as Florencia de la Vega as a joke, because we all put on fantasy names.”
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How was it that you were forced to choose another stage name? “A surgical instrumentalist tried me, alleging that a transvestite could not have that name and Justice agreed with her,” he recalled.
“Transvestites have always slapped us and never agreed with us. All these attacks gave me the security that I acquired today to say it with all the words: I am proudly a transvestite and I like to put the militancy in the spaces that I have, “he said, about the contribution he makes for the” thousands that are growing. ”
“A surgical instrumentalist tried me, alleging that a transvestite could not have that name and Justice agreed with her.”
-In addition, De la Ve recounted that he once wrote a request saying that he did not ask that they understand it, that they be tolerant of it or that they accept it. “I demanded that I simply be respected as any human being is respected for the sacred fact of being one,” he recalled.
“All these attacks gave me the security that I acquired today to put it in all the words: I am a proud transvestite.”
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“Transphobic violence is very alarming and very scary. I feel that this patriarchal society continues to reproduce intolerance, the dreadful image with which we have always been identified with trava, negative and sexualized, ”she added, concerned about the advance of the transvestites, who have reached 25 since the quarantine was issued.
Empowered, Flor indicated: “Today I can lift my document with the same arms that I never went down. Today I can be Florencia Trinidad with pride, because people who fought in silence and knew that when a cause is just, it is good for everyone. ”
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