Cecilia Gentili children-Argentine author, Cecilia Gentili was born in 1972, in Gálvez, Santa Fe, Argentina.
Did Cecilia Gentili have any children?
As of the time of Cecilia Gentili’s demise, she was not known to be a mother to any child, and neither had there been any reports of her adopting any child as well.
Cecilia Gentili career
Gentili started working with the NYC Anti-Violence Project during her internship at The LGBT Center in 2010. She worked as the trans health program supervisor at the Apicha Community Health Center in New York City from 2012 to 2016.
Between 2016 and 2019, Gentili served as the Director of Policy at the Global Medical Help Center (GMHC), the first HIV/AIDS preventive organization in the world and a New York City-based AIDS treatment provider.
She supported the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), a piece of proposed state legislation that was subsequently enacted into law in 2019, while she was a member of the GMHC.
With the successful decriminalization of sex work in New York and the repeal of the “Walking while trans law,” which criminalized “loitering for the purposes of prostitution” and was unfairly used to target, harass, and arrest transgender women of color, Gentili played a leading role in the formation of the DecrimNY campaign (formed 2019).
Additionally, she served as the principal driving force behind the Lorena Borjas Trans Equity Fund NYC, which gave $1.8 million to groups that supported transgender individuals.
She established Trans Equity Consulting in 2019 with the goal of putting trans women of color, immigrants, sex workers, and those who are jailed at the center of development consulting. She organized Fierce Futures in 2020, an event that raised money for charities that empower Black transgender persons.
Days before the Supreme Court ruled that gay and transgender people are entitled to protections under the Civil Rights Act against sex discrimination, the Department of Health and Human Services, operating under the Trump Administration, struck down provisions of the Affordable Care Act that addressed sex discrimination, including gender identity.
With the help of the Human Rights Campaign and the legal firm BakerHostetler, Gentili and Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker filed a case against the department, claiming the rule “directly contravenes” the Supreme Court’s decision.
Gentili was a co-founder of the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, which opened in 2021 as “Cecilia’s Occupational Inclusion Network” (COIN) clinic. This was the East Coast’s first healthcare facility specifically designed for sex workers.
She was one of hundreds of people detained during a protest in October 2023 organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist group, to demand a ceasefire in Gaza.
Among the hundreds of New York Times contributors who voiced their opposition to the newspaper’s discriminatory coverage of transgender individuals, she was a strong voice.
Source: www.Ghgossip.com
