Key Points
- Rene Salinas Ramos, a 47-year-old Ecuadoran citizen, has legally changed his gender so that he could retain custody of his children.
- Ramos still identifies as a male in his everyday life, but he made the legal change because the judicial system tends to favor mothers in custody cases.
- So Ramos legally changed his gender to try to persuade the courts to grant him custody of his two children.
- “The laws say that the one who has the right is the woman. As of this moment, I am female. Now I’m also a mom, that’s how I consider myself,” Ramos told reporters last week.
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