Mar Cambrollé Jurado (born 1957) is a Spanish trans rights activist.

Early life

Mar Cambrollé Jurado was born in

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in 1957. Her father hit her when she was a child because she was

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. She

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of school at age 13, and began working as a

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at age 14. Cambrollé sold crafts in Seville for 14 years, but did not make enough money to set up a

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. She worked as a prostitute in

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and Italy for a few months, then returned to Seville and used the money she had earned to buy furniture for her house and set up a store.

Activity

Under the

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, Cambrollé organized the first

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campaign in

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. On October 3, 2018, Cambrollé and a group of 16 other trans people and parents with trans children began a

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and called on

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to support the rapid passage of the ("Comprehensive Transsexuality Law"). The hunger strike lasted eleven hours before Unidas Podemos agreed to bring the law to a debate in

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by August 2019. Cambrollé expressed disapproval of the chosen deadline, but said that the hunger strike had been successful. , Cambrollé was the president of the Asociación de Transexuales de Andalucía. , she was the president of the Federación Plataformas Trans.

Accolades

In October 2018, the

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's Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy honored Cambrollé for her ongoing trans rights activism beginning in her youth.

References

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