While Caitlyn Jenner graces the cover of Vanity Fair and the world speaks of her beauty, Alondra Metaute, a 38-year-old transgender Colombian woman, is running for mayor of Sopetrán, a small town in Antioquia in north central Colombia.
“They (the men) would catcall and wanted to touch me in public,” she said of first appearing as a transgender. “But right from the start I made sure I’d be respected. I had to slap one or two men in the face, and once got into a real fight with someone who tried to to pee on me.”
She inherited a desire to enter politics from her dad. She is a candidate of the left-wing Alternative Democratic Pole, and she is the first transgender woman to have received political training from Politics for Women, an equal-opportunity initiative started by the regional government. If she wins the vote, she would be the first transgender mayor in Colombia.
#goalondra.
Here’s to waiting for the world to speak of Alondra’s politics.
Talking About Colombia 
What the hell is your point? And why do we have to vote by identity rather than character? I guess good character is just too difficult to have, so the lowest common denominator is race, gender, and now sexuality.
By: JAMES on July 26, 2016
at 9:48 pm