TvT Regional Coordinator - Latin America and the Caribbean
Amaranta Gómez Regalado is Muxhe, Zapotec of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. She has been a social activist for more than 20 years at the local, regional, and international level in areas of health, sexuality, human rights, and cultural promotion.
First Muxhe/trans Mexican candidate to a federal deputy for the former Mexico Posible party, recognized by the Federal Electoral Institute with the name of Amaranta Gómez Regalado. Regional Secretary of the International Secretariat for Indigenous Peoples before HIV, Sexuality, and Human Rights (SIPIA), work in which she had the opportunity to convene and organize with other indigenous leaders of the Latin American region to create an articulated strategy that gives response to the problem of HIV from the communities.
Amaranta has a degree in Social Anthropology, with specialisation in Gender Studies, Sexuality and Human Rights from the Universidad Veracruzana (UV), Xalapa de Enriquez, Veracruz, Mexico. She is a former regional secretary muxhe/trans of ILGA-LAC for Latin America and the Caribbean (2014-2016), former co-director of the International Trans Fund (2014-2017), former technical secretary of the First Municipal Council against Discrimination in Xalapa, Veracruz (2016-2017). Currently, she is a citizen assembly member of the National Council to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination (CONAPRED).