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Chany Alcívar dice que volvió a nacer tras cambiar de identidad.
Ya han pasado dos meses desde que Juan Carlos Alcívar cambió su nombre por el de Chany. Lo hizo por el deseo aquel de identificación. Por ese “bichito” que había dentro de él y le impulsaba a sentirse mujer. Es que al final Juan Carlos nunca fue Juan Carlos, siempre quiso ser Chany.
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Chany Alcívar says reborn after changing identity.
It’s been two months since Juan Carlos Alcívar changed its name to Chany. He did that desire for identification. That «bug» that was within him and led him to feel like a woman. Is that the end Juan Carlos Juan Carlos was never, ever wanted to be Chany.
And so it happened that the identity was changed, and after a year of paperwork handed him the card with your new name. When Elizabeth was renamed Chany Alcívar Veliz and began to demand the world to treat her as a woman.
Minutes before these revelations, Chany were ready to hear a talk about the proposal to change the word «sex» with «gender» in the ballots. One of her companions fight for the rights of GLBTI group (Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual and intersex) are recognized.
It is those little letters, the «M» or «F» as that bother in the document. And the proposal is that there are gender recorded. But that is another matter. Chany is talking about his rebirth. Because changing identity is reborn. «You become someone new, because you must change your life, because at any moment cease to exist, then you’re someone else, but it is satisfactory to achieve that,» he says.
After obtained the document Chany sent press banks to register their new identity.
He went looking for his birth certificate so that even in that document recorded with the woman’s name. «It’s a long process, but when you already achieved is very nice,» he says.
In Manta there are 15 transsexuals who have taken the same course of Chany. They already have their ballots with the names of women.
These changes began after a reform in the Civil Registration Act and Identification.
Over his life. Chany talks about his life as if counting the end of a novel. The details are not lacking. His face makeup with little gestures in every sentence it shows.
He says he has spent a lot of money to become a woman, about four thousand or so dollars. «I already have boobs and buttocks,» says, pointing to his chest. That’s part of the change.
Because the card is a first step that people recognize you as a woman is what follows, he adds.
Is that when going to banks and placed in the row of women, there are guards who ask to withdraw from there sometimes. «It’s at that moment when I show them my card and tell them I have a woman’s name and should treat it as such. People are surprised, because I think few people know that, «he says.
Chany know some laws, especially those that protect your rights. Meet the reforms that have benefited his guild, of the coming changes, and even notes that have the full support of President Rafael Correa to achieve their goals. Aware that what they have gained is a significant advance. So you have to start a new life. So have to be born again.

