Panama's trans community failed by gendered lockdown measures – report
by Hannah Summers from Science | The Guardian on (#58NDA)
LSE finds country's sex-segregated distancing rules may have reproduced inequalities and injustices for trans people
Each day when Pau Gonzalez wakes and looks at his phone, he feels as if he is running a call centre. As the founder of the activist group Hombres Trans Panama, he has been inundated by members of the transgender community seeking advice on how to navigate Panama's sex-segregated social distancing laws. Some callers have been cautioned or abused by police. Others report feeling suicidal and scared to go out.
In April, Panama announced one of the most aggressive Covid-19 policies in Latin America - dictated which days its citizens could go out according to their sex as stated on their national identification cards.
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