Sueño de mujer

From childhood she lived with her paternal grandparents in different mining areas, as in the mine named century XX in Potosí. She passed a long time of her life, hiding her feelings about what it felt different from other children and to pass the time, hiding his true identity for fear of rejection from society. Being still a child, dressed in the robe of his aunt, he wanted to look like really felt. Expected to be home alone, to show what really reflected his soul. Since childhood I had to pretend to be someone he was not, like a double life, which longed for and that was to show to society. He lived with the appearance of a man for 30 years, during which he married and came to meet many of their career goals, including reaching to take the title of agronomist. Although it could be done as "man" with a hypocritical society, a day of those, decided to release the woman who prey was inside him, so he embarked on a new path, not as Abel, but as Laura. Although transformed into the person I had always wanted to be and being able to free his soul; his life as a transsexual, he caused the loss of their rights as human beings. Your place in society, who had managed with great effort during his life as a man, vanished. Laura try to work as an agronomist, was presented at a consulting ministry, where the minister demanded that might show the same appearance as the photo of his identity card, and present a dirigencial guarantee. However, those in charge of providing the same, they demanded 70% of its profit, a fact that made him desist from work. Given this situation and similar so by necessity, was forced to work as sex worker, this being their livelihood until today. Laura Alvarez is currently president of the Organization of Transvestites and Transsexuals Transgender Female (OTRAF) of Bolivia Displaying the injustices that one has to suffer for being different from the stereotypes dominate this society, Laura daily struggle for equality and good treatment they deserve as human beings.