PERSON: Alba Rueda

Government of Argentia

Undersecretary of Diversity Policies

Alba Rueda (born 7 April 1976) is an Argentine politician who became the first openly transgender politician in the country to hold a senior governmental position when she served as the Undersecretary of Diversity Policies within the Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity between January 2020 and May 2022.

Rueda was born in Salta on 7 April 1976 and moved to Buenos Aires with her family in the 1990s, where they experienced poverty. She came out at the age of 16 when she renamed herself Alba. She went on to study philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, though dropped out shortly before completing her degree, citing transphobia amongst university staff.

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