Tania Navarro Amo was born on 6 January 1956 in
Barcelona, Spain, during the
dictatorship of Francisco Franco and 22 years before the
legalization/
decriminalization of
queerness in Spain. She grew up in a profoundly conservative and
transphobic environment, and under a regime that persecuted sexual and gender non-conformities. In 1965 his mother decided to enter her into a reformatory, convinced by her neighbors. After several escapes, and still under the Franco regime, Tania was forced into
prostitution while still a
minor, which led to her being imprisoned. During her time in prison, she was a victim of a multitude of abuse, humiliation, and aggression by prison officials because of her identity, as well as a victim of multiple sexual assaults by both prison officials and other inmates. She was also one of the
trans women present in the
1977 Barcelona gay pride demonstration, the first
LGBT Pride demonstration in the history of Spain. On 20 August 2021 she published her autobiography,
La infancia de una transexual en la dictadura, A través de los ojos de mi madre, in which she narrates the experiences of her life, as well as the abuses she suffered for being a trans woman during the Franco regime. == Works ==