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Chile: a school for trans children

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Matilda (standing in the photo) and her friends feel listened to and protected at Selenna School, which was not the case when they were in traditional colleges where they faced teasing and harassment.

© Naila Derroisné

By: Mikael Ponge

2 mins

Opened four years ago in Santiago, the Selenna school, free and completely independent, now welcomes more than 70 transgender children or victims of bullying.

A school where the teachers, all volunteers, give lessons of a particular kind.  

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It is in a neighborhood house in the center of the Chilean capital, Santiago, that the Selenna school has installed its chairs and tables.

The establishment was born in 2018, following the mobilization of mothers who could no longer bear to see their children suffer in the traditional school system.

Aged 6 to 18, students learn math, literature, history, but always with a trans-feminist vision.

A space where children feel safe.

This does not prevent the school from receiving threats and hate messages, often from religious groups.

This is a report by

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, the editor-in-chief of Le

, in his editorial of the day, while the politicians themselves,

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And on the front page of the Journal de la 1ère

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The venerable “windmill” of Marie-Galante will soon be the subject of an ambitious renovation program.

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