RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Thomson Reuters Foundation) A law reserving 1% of Argentina’s public sector jobs for transgender people will transform everyday life for the country’s trans community, LGBT+ activists said on Friday after Congress gave final approval for the measure.
Senators in the South American country, which already has some of the world’s most progressive trans rights legislation, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the law late on Thursday.
On top of the state jobs quota, the legislation offers tax incentives and soft loans for private businesses that hire trans people in Latin America’s third-largest . . .
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