Gianna Camacho

Camacho studied journalism at the Escuela Jaime Bausate y Meza. After her gender transition, she learned professional makeup.^[4] She is the director of Empatía Perú, an association that produces audiovisual and journalistic content to give visibility to the transgender community in Peru.^[2] As a trans rights activist, she is part of the Únicxs project at the Research Center of the Universidad Cayetano Heredia,^[4] and has served as coordinator of the LGBT Human Rights Observatory of the same university.^[5]

In July 2011, she worked as a reporter for the ATV Group until March 2013.

In 2019, she co-directed the short film Frida with Julio Lossio Quichiz. The film was one of the 10 winners of the contest “Sexual and Gender Diversity: Rights and Citizenship” organized by the IberCultura Viva program in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Development of Uruguay (MIDES).^[6]

In 2021, she held meetings with congress members from various political parties to educate them about the realities of trans people in Peru and to seek their empathy.^[7]

In 2022, after several years of bureaucratic struggle, she completed the process for the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (RENIEC) to change her name on her national identity document.^[8]

In 2023, she spoke out about the murder of Ruby Ferrer, a trans sex worker who worked in the streets Zepita, Cañete, Inclán, and Chancay, in the Lima District, where criminals known as "Los Gallegos del Tren de Aragua", a Venezuelan-origin gang extorting other sex workers in the area, murdered Ruby.^[9][10] In response, Camacho joined other trans women in protesting for justice.^[5] The protest, called March Against Hate Crimes: For diverse sex worker women, gathered over 3000 people who demonstrated against the wave of transfemicides.^[11]