Kim Pérez, LGTBIQA+ activist and first trans person to stand for election, dies
The activist Kim Pérez, the first trans person to stand for election and an icon in the defense of the rights of the collective, has died at the age of 83 years, as reported by various associations LGBTIQA+ of Granada. Born in 1941 in Granada and became a benchmark for the LGTBIQA+ movement at the Andalusian and national level for his defense, from different institutions, of equality and the rights of trans people.
The activist, who was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit of the city of Granada, will be veiled in the Metropolitan Funeral Home of the city before a ceremony scheduled for this Friday in the chapel of the same center. In addition, the Rainbow Association Granada has asked the city council of the capital that the remains of the activist rest in the Pantheon of Illustrious People of the City.
First trans person to stand for election
Pérez was the first trans person to stand for election and starred in 2019 a hunger strike to protest the "forgot" of the rights of trans people in the agreement for the Andalusian Government.
She was a university professor and, in 2023, at the age of 82, she was part of the electoral list of United Granada for this Andalusian capital. A year earlier, he had received the Medal for the promotion of equality values granted by the Ministry of Equality.
Furthermore, Kim Perez presided for years over the Andalusian Gender Identity Associationan organization that helped this community become the first in Spain in 1999 to include the complete process of genital sex reassignment treatment and surgery in its catalogue of health services.
Graduate in History and professor of Ethics and Philosophy, was also co-founder and president of the Association of Gender Identity in Andalusia and the Academy of Gender Identity, among other entities.
The associations LGBTQIA+ of Granada and province have expressed their deepest condolences for the death of Perez, that they have highlighted has been "one of the most prominent figures in the fight for human rights»Of this group.
In the words of the president of Rainbow Granada, Sandra Rodriguez Salas, who are "He was always at the forefront of the LGBTQIA+ movement in Granada and Andalusia" Y "a guiding light for» who had «the luck of meeting her and working together«.
«Her legacy will live on in our activism, because Kim will always continue to inspire us.", said the former councilor for the PSOE in Granada, who has noted that Pérez "fShe was a pioneer in many aspects» paving the way for activists like herself Rodriguez Salas, First trans councillor of the Granada City Council.
