Whores and Hairdressers
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- José Luis Sánchez Hachero (ES) Canal Sur
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In Cali, a football team made up of men who wish to be women, have a fixture against a team made up of women who wish to be men. In Bogotá, dozens of women who are actually men make a pilgrimage every Monday to cemetery to ask favours of a saint of their invention. The day to day existence of the Colombian transgender collective reaches levels of magic realism if it were not for the fact that, behind their colourful stories and their immense lust for life, a silent holocaust is occurring: in Cali, the salsa city, cold statistics tells us that one transsexual is murdered every month. In Bogotá the numbers rocket: every week there is a case filed against homophobia. The only crime that these victims have committed is to find themselves enclosed within a gender that has not been given to them by nature.
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