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reflected in 2015: "Reaching old age is for a travesti like belonging to an exclusive club, because the mishaps that accompany —which lead to a death that is always considered premature in terms of population statistics—are the perennial consequences of a identity.

A lot of 'siliconized' [performers] came, plastic surgeries; social openness,.

It consists of taking up elements of prison jargon or "[police] ", deforming some syllables of certain words, and also using invented terms such as cirilqui to refer to the police, or even the teje Spanish for "" , which can mean, depending on the context, 'lie, story, argument, affair.

Critically developing upon these early works through the use of , Kulick studied the travesti population of and placed their social stigmatization within the larger context of class and racial inequalities.

Paraguayan travestis use a secret language called jeito—originated in the field of prostitution—which they use to protect themselves from clients, the police or any person strange to the places where they work and that threatens the security of the group.

Their contact with local feminism during the mid-1990s is regarded as a key moment in the development of the Argentine travesti rights movement, as it directed their concerns towards the concept of gender identity, and marked the beginning of in the country.

Due to the strong stereotype towards travestis in relation to prostitution and , they are usually automatically referred to centers every time they attend a medical center, ignoring their other health needs.

Travesti identities are heterogeneous and multiple, so it is difficult to reduce them to universal explanations.

Travesti identity has an important history of in Argentina, where it is proudly claimed as the "political locus par excellence" of resistance to the policies of and.

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