
Original title: "Persone transessuali a Cuba" (Transsexual people in Cuba) by Mariela Castro Espin.The book addresses a crucial belief that all forms of discrimination have the same origin, but are expressed in different ways according to the specific socio-historical contexts. "Transsexual People in Cuba" highlights how exploitative economic relationships and processes of a cultural nature reproduce and recreate values, perceptions, representations, stigmas, and stereotypes.The book presents how the socialist experience has inherited codes that contradict actions towards emancipation in the