Francisco J. Galarte’s “On Trans* Chican@s: Amor, Justicia, y Dignidad” he goes through how important are transgender people in the LGBT+ community by stating that trans* rights are built in jotería studies. He starts by saying and acknowledging Gloria E. Anzaldúa for her work “Borderlands/La Frontera (1987)” he states by saying that her book is “arguably central to both the emergence and the future of jotería studies.” (Galarte, 229) which opened many doors for many writers, especially Chicanx in the LGBT community. He talks about how his work which concentrates in the fields of Chicana/o studies, queer studies, and transgender studies tries to generate a relation to figure trans* Chican@ bodies, politics, and communities but not as “integral sites of inquiry but not as objects of study, tropological figures, or stand-ins for gender trouble or in-betweenness.” (Galarte, 229). Throughout
It’s been a difficult road bringing joteria studies to Chicano studies and when I'm reading this, I can feel the pain in Francisco's voice. It’s very unfortunate that we still don’t have that much of the LGBT issues and struggles in Chicanx studies since they play a huge part in the Chicanx struggles in this country. Without the contribution of LGBT Chicanx, there be even more struggles to come out, especially in Chicanx families which most don’t support the ideas of identifying as something else in the LGBT community. Without their voice, I wouldn't be writing about trans* Chican@s at this moment and it would be a loss for Chicanx not to learn about our trans* brothers. He tries to give the statistics of trans women who have been murder but only mentions that it’s been rising over the last five years and the main reason he does that is because he says not every trans woman is being conuted, they don’t count the women in campos which are yet to be discovered. I do believe this is true mainly because not every