Candidate begins run to become Ecuador’s first transsexual lawmaker: Transsexuals have traditionally struggled to be accepted into politics across the world

In a first, transsexual runs for office in Ecuador

AFP

A 30-year-old rights activist is vying to become Ecuador’s first transsexual lawmaker. Diane Rodriguez is seeking to fill a vacant congressional seat as a candidate of the leftist Rupture 25 party in the South American country’s February 17 presidential and parliamentary elections.