Giovanna Rincon

Giovanna Rincon (born 1969) is a transgender rights activist in France. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, and residing in Paris since 2002, she is the director of the transgender rights organization Acceptess-T, as well as the spokeswoman of the Fédération Trans et Intersexes and the Syndicat du Travail Sexuel.

Early life Giovanna Rincon was born in 1969 in Bogotá, Colombia, to an impoverished household; her father was a shoemaker and her mother was a housewife. She first learned about transgender women through profiles of Roberta Close and Eva Robin in a magazine. In 1998, antiretroviral treatments for HIV became available and she secured treatment. However, undocumented transgender sex workers often suffered from denial of care in Italy, and some of the friends she brought to get treatment instead found themselves deported. A year later, the association had 180 members, 90% of whom were transgender. She held the law to be "100% responsible" for the murders of Vanesa Campos and Jessyca Sarmiento in 2018 and 2020, respectively, and condemned the French government's subsequent inaction.

She has called for the French state to make changes to one's legal gender freely available as a first step of one's gender transition, rather than conditioning it on already having completed one's transition.

Personal life Rincon's family have reconciled with her, and she periodically travels to Colombia to visit them.