Canada has passed a law that gives government the power to intervene in family life; if parents of children with gender identity issues refuse to accept their kids view on their own gender. The Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act of 2017 (bill 89), was passed in Ontario with 63 to 23 votes. Under this […]
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When María Amarilla was eleven years old, she was sexually abused by a family member. “For years I remained silent because I didn’t know it was wrong and didn’t know who to talk to,” she told openDemocracy.
The abuse “lasted for a while, and when my school organised a spiritual retreat I tried to talk to someone, but everything the girls heard there was about our ‘sins’: the clothes we wore, the words we used. So I shut up.”
At the age of fifteen, Amarilla – who is now a spokesperson for the National Union of Student Centers of Paraguay – reported the abuse to police, “but trauma and psychological damage were still there. There’s no support from institutions.”