Claudia Ancapán
Claudia Ancapán Quilape (born 1976) is a Chilean midwife and transsexual activist. Claudia began to express as a female at the age of five. In her adult life, Ancapán has worked as an activist to promote the rights of trans peoples in Chile.
Biography
[edit]Claudia Ancapán Quilape was born in Chile in 1976 to a family with Mapuche heritage.[1] Ancapán began to express herself as a female around the age of 3; these habits continued, and, by the age of 5, was forced to live a double life, expressing herself as a girl in private and a "boy" in public. During her time in primary school, Ancapán was bullied and occasionally beaten.[2][3]
In the 1990s, Ancapán attended the Universidad Austral de Chile, where she studied obstetrics. During her time at the university, she began to research hormone therapy and began to self-treat herself with hormones she (as a student of obstetrics) had access to. She successfully graduated university, but found that finding employment was difficult for a trans woman. She eventually found work as a midwife, and became active in the Chilean trans community; her efforts to promote the idea of gender equality in Chile has resulted in her being cited as one of the most influential members of the Chilean trans community.[2][4]
References
[edit]- ^ "La historia de resiliencia de la matrona Claudia Ancapán Quilape: mapuche y transexual". Pagina 7 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-06-02.
- ^ a b "Claudia Ancapán: "Chile condena a la infancia trans a la marginalidad"". pikaramagazine.com (in European Spanish). 27 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
- ^ "Biografía de Claudia Ancapan Quilape". Retrieved 2019-06-02 – via Scribd.
- ^ "Las batallas de una matrona mapuche transexual discriminada en la U. Austral". facebook.com/eldesconciertocl/ (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-06-02.