Venezuela: Congress MP swears in first transgender

Venezuela's National Assembly on Thursday sworn in as deputy Tamara Adrian becoming the first South American country Congressman transgender and second in the continent.

Between applause and cheers was received Thursday at the Chamber of Adrian Congress he was sworn in along with other colleagues and formally took office after being elected in the elections of December 6 as a substitute deputy of the opposition coalition.

Adrian is the first transgender MP Venezuela and the second on the continent. Between the years 2014-2015 in Uruguay there was a transgender substitute senator.

"This is a milestone especially for the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender)" said Adrian to ensure that a flag of his tenure as deputy in the next five years will be the fight for equal rights and He said his community is very unprotected in Venezuela.

The congressman, a lawyer and university professor of law, told The Associated Press that despite the limitations of rights and opportunities facing the community in the South American country, Congress made it through the space that gave the opposition party Will People who have among their flags defending the rights of minorities.

Adrian has become one of the leading gay community in Venezuela for the struggle that has continued for more than eleven years the Supreme Court to be recognized identity change, but so far no legal action has been admitted.

 Although the activist has a legal registration as man, Venezuelan electoral authorities allowed him to go as Adrian women in the lists of candidates for deputies of the opposition. The opposition coalition overwhelmingly won the parliamentary elections in December to reach 112 of the 167 seats.

The new congressman, 61, said he hopes to promote a law on access to public information for dissemination of many fundamental data. He added that Venezuela is now "a plane to which he turned off all bulbs and sensors and are the drivers without information on what is happening."

The government deputy Elias Jaua considered as "absolutely normal" that Venezuela has a first deputy transgender, and said it has to do with the "society of equals as it has built the Bolivarian revolution."