Amaranta Gómez Regalado

The muxes have stepped, quietly and not so quietly, into the wider world.

In 2003, a muxe named Amaranta Gómez Regalado ran for the Mexican Congress.

She was twenty-five.

She did not win the seat, but she was the first, and there are schools named after her now.

That is the difference, and it is the whole point.

The Muxes have stepped quietly and not so quietly into the wider world.

In two thousand and three, a Muxe named Amaranta Gómez Regalado ran for the Mexican Congress.

She was twenty-five.