Aitzole Araneta
Aitzole Araneta is a sexologist from the University of Alcalá de Henares (UAH) and has studied interdisciplinary gender studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She currently works as an equality technician of the Pasaia Town Council, in special services since she is running for Mayor of Donostia. So far, she is the first transsexual person to run for election as Mayor in a Spanish capital. She has been a lecturer in several universities, as well as national and international bodies. She has also been a sex education trainer and columnist in several publications. As an expert, she participated in the working group on the new comprehensive law on state transsexuality, and has appeared as such in the reform of the comprehensive law on Basque transsexuality. For eight years, she was also part of a working group consulted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the process of revising the catalogue of diseases on the issue of transsexual conditions. As an activist, she has participated in several social and collective movements, and is the driving force behind the trans depathologization movement of the Network for the Depathologization of Trans Identities and the international campaign “Stop Trans Pathologization”. She authored several publications. Among her most recent ones are the prologue of the book Trànsits (Bellaterra, 2020) and the chapter on the questioning of transsexual people in the book Transfeminismo o barbarie (Kaótica Libros, 2020).