Transgender Sonorans and their allies took the streets of the Sonoran capital Hermosillo on Sunday during the community’s first ever pride march.
The historic march also came several weeks after the Sonoran Congress approved a measure allowing Sonorans to change their names and genders on official documents. That reform had been pushed by Sonora Trans, the organizer of Sunday’s march.
“We were really afraid that because it was first big trans pride march, that there wouldn’t be a response” to the call to march, said Alejandra Dominguez, vice president of Sonora Trans. “But we were surprised.”
She estimated that around 150 people showed up. Celebrating the reform’s passage was one purpose of the march, but so was demanding greater inclusion from Sonoran society, according to Dominguez.
