Naamin Timoyco

Naamin Cárdenas Calderón (born December 22, 1959), known artistically as Naamin Timoyco, is a Peruvian vedette and dancer. Naamin was the first Peruvian trans woman to obtain a National Identity Document that legally recognizes her gender identity.

Biography She was born on December 22, 1959, in the district of Iquitos, in the province of Maynas. Her father was in the military and her mother was a housewife. At the age of 15, after finishing basic education in school, she moved to the city of Lima.

From an early age, she showed interest in the entertainment world. At 18, she began studying a degree in business administration at Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University, In the 1990s, she traveled to Paris to undergo sex reassignment surgery.

In 2003, she began legal procedures to change her name on her national identity document, achieving success in 2008 when the Sixteenth Civil Court of Lima declared her request to be recognized as a woman in her birth certificate to be well-founded. In 2010, the 39th Specialized Civil Court of Lima issued a ruling for the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (RENIEC) to process the change in its database.