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Mauro Cabral is a trans man, trans activist, educator and social theorist. Cabral’s academic research focuses on the social theory underlying debates about sex change and intersex issues. He has taught at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and has been a member of IGLHRC´s International Advisory Council since 1999. He is also a member of the International Advisory Committee for CLAGS (Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York), as well as an activist with RedTrans and the Working Group on Intersexuality. An author and translator of essays on trans and intersex issues, he lives in Córdoba, Argentina.
Mauro became the co-director of GATE – Global Action for Trans* Equality in January 2010. He has been involved with trans and intersex activism since 1995. From 2005 to 2007 he was in charge of coordinating the Trans and Intersex Area at IGLHRC Latin American Office. The following three years he worked at Mulabi – Latin American Space for Sexualities and Rights, starting as its Watchdogs Officer and occupying the Executive Director position during 2009.
During the last fifteen years most of Mauro’s work has been focused on lobbying, training and writing. Since 2004 he has regularly participated in political initiatives at the UN and in 2006 he was part of the expert’s group that elaborated the Yogyakarta Principles. In 2009 he compiled the book “Interdicciones. Escrituras de la intersexualidad en castellano”. This year he will finish his dissertation on juridical aspects of transsexuality and intersexuality within Argentinian Law.
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