Monica Romano
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Monica J. Romano is an Italian activist, writer and politician. She’s the first transgender municipal councilor in Milan.[1] [2]
Biography
She was born male in 1979 in Milan. She came from a working class family. Her mother is from La Spezia and her father is from Sicily. The mother, Francesca, passed the passion to her for study and culture and her father, Nino, waiter in a restaurant, passed passion for politics and Marxist view. In 1997, she graduated from high school (classical lyceum).
In 1998 she rejected the male gender and began to live socially as a girl, choosing the name Monica.
The family supports her with great courage.[3]
In the same year she began her activism in associations and Italian LGBT movements, fascinated by her mentor Deborah Lambillotte. Her best-known battle is for transgender’s right to work.
Her activism has been going on for more than twenty years.[4]
In 2006 the Italian State, by judgment of the court, recognizes the name Monica as her legal name.
Of the masculine name which has been assigned to her at birth she keeps at an informal level only the “J”, to give memory, love and witness to the first nineteen years of his life, “but also to highlight a political positioning of rejection of binary logic, passing logic and normalizazion that have always oppressed transgender, non binary and gender non-conforming people and communities”.[5]
In 2007 she graduated in Political Science.
In 2008 she wrote her first book “Transsexuality as Object of Discrimination”, essay about discrimination of transgender people in contemporary society.[6] [7]
In 2015 she wrote “Stories of XY girls”, a bildungsroman based on the story of his life[8] and in 2017 she wrote “Gender (R) Evolution”, memoir about her activism, both books published by Ugo Mursia.</ref> [9]
In 2021 he ran for municipal elections in Milan with the Democratic Party supporting Mayor Beppe Sala and took 938 votes. She won the election and became the first transgender woman municipal councilor in the history of Milan.[10] [11]
References
- ↑ Article of Italy 24 News "Monica Romano first transgender councilor in Milan[1]
- ↑ Interview for Euronews "How a bill to fight homophobia has polarised Italy and sparked a culture war"[2]
- ↑ Official website[3]
- ↑ Website of Transgender Association for Culture and Ethichs[4]
- ↑ Official website[5]
- ↑ Presentation of the book "Transsexuality as Object of Discrimination" of Arcigay national association
- ↑ Interview for magazine "Donna Moderna": "A travel in transgender world"
- ↑ "Stories of XY girls", 2015, Ugo Mursia's Editions
- ↑ Interview of "L'indice dei libri del mese": "Monica Romano: the potentials of LGBT publishing[6]
- ↑ Article of Corriere della Sera "Monica Romano, the first transgender elected in Milan[7]
- ↑ Article of Euronews "I'm tired of feeling invisible': LGBT anger after Italian bill to fight homophobia is rejected" [8]
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