Salma Luévano Luna is a Mexican politician and LGBT+ rights activist. She currently sits in the

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as a member of the Morena caucus.

Career

In the 1990s, Luévano was arrested by Mexican police on charges of indecency for wearing women’s clothing. Following her arrest, she became increasingly heavily involved in activist for LGBT+ rights in Mexico, eventually being named director of the Together for the Way of Diversity collective. She ran for Morena in the

2021 Mexican legislative election Legislative elections were held in Mexico on 6 June 2021. Voters elected 500 deputies (300 in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post, 200 by proportional representation) to sit in the Chamber of Deputies for the 65th Congress. On 5 ...

, successfully winning a seat. She was one of the first two transgender women to be elected to the Mexican Parliament, along with

María Clemente García María Clemente García Moreno (born 11 October 1985) is a Mexican politician, sex worker and activist for the rights of sexual diversity. Since 2021, she served as Deputy of the LXV Legislature of the Mexican Congress. Previously a member of Mor ...

, also a member of Morena and also elected in 2021.

References

Living people Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) 21st-century Mexican women politicians LGBTQ members of the Congress of Mexico Transgender women politicians Politicians from Aguascalientes Mexican transgender women Mexican LGBTQ rights activists Year of birth missing (living people) {{Mexico-politician-stub