Chile Elects Their First Trans Official To Their National Legislature
The student leader Emilia Schneider has become the first transgender person to be elected to occupy a seat in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, after the holding of the elections that reconfigured the composition of Congress.
A member of the left-wing Communes party, which is part of the Frente Amplio coalition, Schneider will enter the Lower House on behalf of District 10 of the Chilean capital, made up of six large sectors of the city.
“I assume with humility and great honor to be the first trans deputy of Chile. This is a step thanks to years of feminist and dissident struggle,” she wrote on her Twitter account.
“This is a day of mixed feelings. On the one hand, hatred advances. On the other, there is hope,” added Schneider regarding Kast’s triumph, on the one hand, and her election as a deputy, on the other, calling for vote for Boric in the second round.
According to Today.In-24, the Chilean group founded by civic rights and anti-discrimination activists Movilh also celebrated Schneider’s victory, as well as that of Marcela Riquelme Aliaga and Camila Musante Muller, the first openly lesbian or bisexual women to reach Congress.
“The first openly lesbo / bisexual and trans women arrive at the National Congress of Chile. Congratulations. Your work, perseverance, ideas and proposals make history,” Movilh celebrated through a publication on his Twitter account.
Chile held the first round of its presidential elections, in addition to elections for the election of the 155 legislators of the Chamber of Deputies and 27 of the 50 senators that as of March 2022 will have the Upper Chamber.
The far-right José Antonio Kast and the leftist Gabriel Boric prevailed over the rest of the other five candidates in the election to replace the current president, Sebastián Piñera, and will contest the first magistracy in the second round, scheduled for 19 December.
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