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TRADUCCION:
Nowadays we talk about family organisations.
There have always been many kinds of families. Human beings have always had
different ways of grouping together according to their needs and feelings [affections],
but the people [it was always around the fire, where the people that were there, did not
have necessarily blood ties] who gathered around the fire together were not necessarily
blood relatives. (The sub-clause in the previous sentence wasnt clear, so I tried to make
sense of the sentence this way). In other words: the family hasnt always been
constituted by blood ties.
Nowadays family organisations [constitute] pose a great difficulty to those who intend
to bind it to a particular definition. Because there are many alternatives, and our Sexual
Diversity Law made it easier and now the alternatives are far greater in number [many
more].
My name is Laura Mikaela Gallardo. Im 42 years old and Im a transgender mother. I
think that sometimes society is wrong when they use the words mom and dad [to call
someone just] to refer to someone based only [in] on their gender, because we are a
marriage that brings to our son the same love as any other couple does.
He leaves home at 5.30 AM to go to [his] work. And if he hasnt left by that time I start
knocking on his door because I dont want him to arrive late for work [like that he could
get late to his job].
Alejandro: My name is Alejandro Gayardo and my mom is Laura. She had always been
there for me and she always will [always] be because thats the way she is, when I need
her, when I need advice [an advise] or someone to [hear] listen to me, she is always
there.
She never hid the truth from me. One day she told me: Im your mom from the hearth
and thats how [it started] our little family started, and then she met my dad, that is her
partner, and thank god, he is an amazing dad.
Laura: we come from a little town called Calchaqui in Santa Fe, where people [did]
discriminated a lot. They used to say: there he goes, the son of a In order to make
my son happy, I told him that as soon as he [would] starts [the] kindergarten, Id start
traveling to Buenos Aires to give him enough tools to [overtake] overcome his [the]
difficulties. (I hope Ive guess the right meaning intended here, but it wasnt clear.)
Alejandro: When I was 4 or 5 years old, before I came to Buenos Aires, she sat me on
her lap [legs] and told me: [Iam this, accepting me or not is up to you] This is what I
am, it is up to you whether you accept me or not. I looked at her, into her eyes, and told

her, how [couldnt] could I not accept you if you are the mother, I dont know if I chose,
but I know I would choose you again?
Laura: When I started sending him to the kindergarten I began traveling every 3 months.
But then, when he grew up he understood everything and came to live with me. He was
raised in a real [true] family. His father is my partner [couple], he calls him dad and Im
his mom, and we are a normal family [as] like any other.
Alejandro: when one is part of a [nonconvencional] nonconventional family, people
usually exclude you. But we are a family, my dad is very supportive. He respects my
decisions and [he] always stands by me.
Laura: I have lived with my partner for 18 years. His family has never accepted me. One
day we were drinking mate with my mother-in-law, and I told her that her son and I had
gone to the capital to ask about everything we needed to get married. She said that her
son would never get married to a person like me. Nowadays I am the daughter-in-law
she loves the most [more].
Alejandro: in a little town, fear is always present. Here in the capital you dont often
feel it but in a province it is [iis] tougher, people are [is] always pointing the finger
[finger pointing], you are condemned.
Laura: Now I can say that they respect and admire me, and they had to eat their words
[swallow their criticism]. Because Ive shown [to the] society that all the love I bring to
my son is sincere and true. Alejandro is everything to [for] me; I dont know how to
explain it.
Alejandro: you cling to fear and stop being who you really are just to pretend to be
someone youre not, in order to please people.
Laura: I couldnt, for example, enjoy his last year of primary school. I couldnt even
attend his high school graduation, lest anyone made fun of him [either be present when
he graduated from high school in order to prevent anybody from making fun of him]. So
he had to face such events alone [be alone through that kind of stuff].
Giberti: [the] this educational topic is beyond the children, they are beginning to
understand it better, in fact they already do. Teaching is in a difficult situation to move
forward and understand that, in the first place, if there is a trans kid in the classroom we
have to understand what a transgender kid is, what the parents of a trans kid are and
how to deal with a trans kid and his school-mates.
If a teacher has a homosexual kid in her classroom, he must to know exactly how to
defend him/her from the bullying of the other kids that have been raised with patriarchal
values.
My name is Graciela, Silvina has been my partner for 15 years ago. My name is Silvina
and Graciela is my partner, Im going to repeat what she says, Im her echo (laughs).

I fell in love at first sight, you know, that kind of stuff I thought that didnt exist. It had
never happened to me till that time. The thing is that it was not easy because I was
married at that time, it was a heterosexual marriage, and I had two little girls of 7 and
10, so you can imagine it was a very hard to live through [it].
When I got married to a man I was 23 years old. We had a big wedding party,
everybody was happy, my parents were so happy and so were my parents-in-law and my
friends; [everything] everything was just fine.
[Otherwise,] Yet when [the fact that] I [was] started going out with a woman [caused]
my parents could not understand me, I couldnt speak [with] to my friends about it,
everybody felt hurt [with] by this situation, and I wondered [,] why we had to [take] see
this as a funeral instead of a party.
Silvina: Graciela shows up with her story and I [got] was astounded. And I thought to
myself: wow! [it] This is what I have [ever] always dreamed of, having a family with a
woman and kids. Her daughters werent my children, but at that moment I didnt care,
in fact I didnt know them but I already felt them [as] to be my kids too.
Hija: For me it was always natural to have 2 moms. At the beginning it wasnt like this,
but I was living with my mom and a friend of hers, but little by [Little] little she earned
that place, because she is a [women that] woman who cares about me and who brings all
her love to me. That is why nowadays she is a mom to me.
Graciela: I remember at that time I went to work and at the end of the day when I was
returning home I felt [joy] happy because I knew they were there. And that is was
something that had never happened to me before. Feeling eager to come back home,
because I knew that my love was there waiting for me with my two daughters, and that
everything was just fine, that at home we lived in a beautiful family environment. Who
can say that is not a family like any other?
We couldnt say openly to everybody that we were a couple because [the] social
acceptation wasnt [as] what it is now. My lawyer told me that if I told someone that I
was in a relationship with a woman, I could loose lose custody of my daughter[s
custody].
Silvina: It was very clear to me that Graciela was Patricia and Lauris mother, and they
had their father too. I wasnt supposed to replace any of them. What I did want was to
accompany their mom, [it] that was my role. So my objective since I was near Graciela
was to accompany her in her process, [in] which [I did care] was very important to me.
Thats why I did my best to make it work, that was my desire.
I was constantly [mutating] transmuting for Lauri, at first I was her mothers friend,
then I was an aunt and after that I was a godmother.
Graciela: I can remember the only problem that involved my kids was when one of
them had his [graduate] graduation trip. The class had to travel with two adults to escort

them, then Lauri and her friends chose Silvina, they didnt want any other mother,
because they said she was so cool. They voted for Silvina [among] from the other
candidates.
There was quite a stir when 2 moms objected for homophobic reasons [by an homofobic
matter]. And their argument was that they wanted a biological mother to go.
Silvina: then I lost.
Giberti: To be adopters, people must [have] fulfil certain requirements [features] and to
guarantee a certain level of education and [breeding to] upbringing for the kids. If there
are two women and one of them makes a request[s] for [an] artificial insemination, it is
up to her. If she wants to adopt or if there is a couple of women and both of them adopt
her partners [couples] kid its up to them.
Laura: there is nothing to explain [whereas] so long as the couple do care about their kid
and they [bring] give him/her their love [their love to him/her]. It doesnt matter if they
are a woman or a man, a grandpa or an aunt.
Giberti: Roles change and why do they change? Because roles are cultural, because the
duties of a mother and [of a] father are in a process of change [changing process]. If the
function of a mother is linked to the breastfeeding were in trouble because it is
decreasing ,and breast feeding is all well [very nice] and good but it is not enough. We
cant define a mother [around] by that fact.
I cant [either] even define a father in [by the lacanian] Lacanian theory (Law of the
Name-of-the-father) [that runs] that it is the father who opens the kid to the world. The
father or [the] mother or the person who is responsible for the kid should be kind and
give [bring] him/her love, and it doesnt have anything to do with maternity, come on, a
man can be sweet and kind too.
We met 20 years ago, and then we started our project of having a family. First of all the
possibility of adopting appeared, but that wasnt that easy. We tried, found out the
information required, and after a long way, weve made a surrogacy [subrogation]. After
they were born we began to [find a] receive good feedback from the society, we
integrate very well [have a very good integration] with the rest of the parents of their
[classroom] classmates, and teachers. Its happening in a natural way, we are just
another family. At first there is a bit of curiosity but then were just the parents of the
girls.(two more parents)
Its a learning process for everyone even for us. Because we didnt have co-paternal
[hadnt] family models [of co-paternity] either, were learning and the society has the
opportunity to get to know us. Our only militancy is to be [part] included and blend in
with the rest of the people.

Giberti: if two men are looking for a womb to have a child from the gametes of one of
them, well, congratulations, thats another way to start a family. The thing is that now
everything is different in relation to the models weve known till now.
Maybe it has something to do [to be] with demystifying the topic of the [subrogation]
surrogacy of the womb. Most people who did it, [was with a lot of sacrifice] had to
make a lot of sacrifices. If we had legislation in our country [a legislation] that
supported [supports] it, many more [of] people could do it.This is part of a basic
concept that is the will to bear children [childbearing will]. A person who wants to be a
parent and has a strong vocation will do it with all their love and theres nothing else.
If you ask Carmela how she was born she will tell you that she grew in the belly of a
very nice woman [that] who carried her in order that she could be born. Thats how
[what] she would answer because thats the way she has incorporated it
My neighbour is a [women] 90 year old woman [of 90 years of age]. When I told her
about the [subrogation] surrogacy she couldnt understand anything about it [of that].
She left, upset and didnt speak to me for a year. When she saw my daughters and saw
me, she congratulated me, she understood and nowadays she asks me all the time [for]
about the girls, and how they are
Silvina: [On a] One Mothers day the girls came with two little plants. One was for Gra
and the other one was for me.And I was very surprised, I was even afraid to take it, but
in some way it was how they were celebrating that I was part of it.
Laura Mikaela: At that time we didnt have [hadnt] any rights, it wasnt easy to be a
trans mother.
Laura hija: I was very angry because, for example, people [was] were always [making
up terrible gossips] making up terrible lies and gossiping without even looking at real
cases, always hypothesizing about how kids will suffer in these [this] new family
models, when [that] those kids already exist, were here. I felt people were very
disrespectful[l in] to my face because they said we would be sick people and that kind
of stuff.
Giberti: Let us not always repeat [always] the same mistakes. Lets [look at] see, learn,
th[g]ink and [see] look at how they live; people [that] who have always been hidden but
have always existed.
Graciela: Theres not just one story, the world is not only heterosexual, there are also
diverse families with the same right to live, exist and be respected.
Laura Mikaela: If my son would have finished the secondary school this year, maybe I
would have gone because now I have rights I did not have at that time. You have to bow
down, you had no choice

Laura hija: Todays a weird day, today they are coming home to film us as if we were
freaks. To a certain extent we are. Im part of the few kids of my generation that have
grown up with two mothers. They [come] are coming to find out what happened. I bear
the voice of those who still dont speak, the many [lots of] babies that two years ago
could be born with two moms or dads thanks to the new law that recognizes it.
Having grown up in this home was one of the most wonderful things that happened to
me. I have as a maternal model a mother that had the courage to transgress thousands of
social prejudices with all the fear that entails, just to be [loyal] true to her feelings.
[Because the tale that says] Were told that life has to be lived in a certain way and that
we should behave in a particular way, but I dont buy into it. If I learned something
from my home, it is to be free, and that is the most beautiful feeling I ever felt.