The White House has engaged a person openly transgender, announced on Tuesday the adviser of president Barack Obama. A first for the executive american.

It’s called Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, she is métis originally from the Honduras and for many it is the symbol of an opening of the political power of the us. At 28 years of age, this young woman claiming to fully tranny is the first employee to transgender in the history of the White House. Recruitment within the human resources team of the executive of the world’s leading power, was announced Tuesday by the adviser to the president Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett.

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hiring will be in line with the promises of campaigns of Barack Obama. “His commitment to improving the lives of transgender americans, particularly transgender people of color and those who live in poverty, reflect the values of this administration”, also recalled Valerie Jarrett. A very strong signal to the LGBT community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans) and welcomed by the associations aim to defend the rights of the latter. Mara Keisling, director of the national Center for the equal rights of transgender people where Raffi Freedman-Gurspan has a time worked, described the appointment as”historic”. “The fact that this first appointment of a transgendered person for a woman of color is, in itself, significant”, she also stressed.

This new step in the social recognition and equal rights of transgender people comes only a few months after the coming-out of former athlete Bruce Jenner. Last June, the one who decided to change sex and is now called “Caitlyn” has posed as a woman on the front page of Vanity Fair US. One way to draw attention to these life choices still “invisible” and often pointed out.

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In France, the elected transsexuals are still rare. They provoke the same “mistrust and contempt” on the part of their colleagues, said the former councillor of Paris, Camille Cabral, the daily Liberation.