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[[File:riveraduarte.png|200px|thumb|left|Andres Ignacio Rivera Duarte]]

==Country==

Chile

==Birth - Death==


==Occupation==

Activist

==Description==

Founder and Executive Director of Organización de Transexuales por la Dignidad de la Diversidad, the first NGO in Chile dedicated to fighting for trans people’s rights.  Professor at the Universidad de Rancagua.  Provides direct support to sex workers.  Fought a landmark lawsuit, bringing issues of gender identity into the public view, finally winning the right for trans people to legally change their name and sex in 2007.  Recipient, Felipa de Souza Award of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (2007).  Transgender. 

==See Also==

* [[Transgender Activists]]

==Further Reading/Research==

* http://zagria.blogspot.com/2012/01/andres-ignacio-rivera-duarte-1964.html#.U_zojdh0yM8
* http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/actualidad/vivir/transformacion-de-un-activista-articulo-283100
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCzSbsUzhBc