Sep 17 2020 05:31 PM | Updated as of Sep 17 2020 06:14 PMBUENOS AIRES - Thomas Casavieja has just started a new job in a Buenos Aires bank, excited at a legislative breakthrough that establishes a hiring quota for transgender people like himself in Argentina's public sector.
A decree by President Alberto Fernandez's government published last week in the official Gazette requires that 1 percent of all public sector jobs be set aside for transgender people.The progress "has come at a price," Casavieja said as he reflected on the belated government efforts to bring LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) people into the formal employment fold."It's come at the cost of many deaths in our collective, even though Argentina has been a.