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Tamara Andrián Hernández
Tamara Adrián is a Venezuelan lawyer, who in 1976 graduated at the Andrés Bello Catholic University of Caracas, summa cum laude. In 1982, she obtained diplomas at the Paris 2 University and the Paris Institute of Comparative Law. She is now a professor at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, at the Central University of Venezuela and at the Metropolitan University. Author of many articles and books (including on LGBTI legal issues), her works have been published in Venezuela, Colombia, France, the United States, the Netherlands, Peru and other countries. She has been a lecturer in LGBT (and intersex) and gender legal issues in many countries, including Switzerland and Italy. As a transsexual lesbian woman, she constantly tries to achieve recognition and protection of the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, transsexual, transgender and intersexual people. In 2009, she was granted the first "Luis Maria Olaso" Human Rights Prize; in 2012 she was given a special mentioning for the Human Rights Prize of the Canadian Embassy in Venezuela. Tamara Adrián is member of the organization Diverlex, Diversidad e Igualdad a Través de la Ley (= Diversity and Equality through the Law). This organisation was the first to host the so-called Trans secretariat at the World ILGA organisation. Tamara Adrián acted as co-chair of the Antwerp conference. |