La actriz trans ha roto esquemas como coprotagonista de la telenovela El amor no tiene receta (Univision). "Sin toda la gente que ha luchado, que ha dado su vida o la ha perdido por la lucha de nuestros derechos no hubiera yo llegado hasta este punto".
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00:00A lot of people have told me, don't say you're trans anymore, don't make trans characters anymore.
00:04And I tell them, hey, wait, wait, there has to be pioneers, there has to be pioneers.
00:10I mean, this is a war that hasn't ended, it's just getting started, we're just getting weapons.
00:16I was very afraid of being who I was because I knew my family, my friends, my partners, were going to reject me.
00:24I said, they're going to reject me because it's a very rejected community.
00:28I mean, obviously there is a tremendous fear, coconut of the past.
00:34I just want to tell you not to lose hope,
00:40that there will be times when there is not even a ray of light,
00:47but the most powerful light is the one we have in our hearts.
00:51Without my community, this would not be happening.
00:58Without all the people who have fought, who have given their lives or have lost it for the fight for our rights,
01:06I would not have reached this point and neither would Juan have reached this idea.
01:11Starting with Wendy, Wendy Guevara, who thanks to her, her social work, her internal work,
01:18her struggle for her dreams, this place is now with me.
01:24A lot of people have told me, don't say you're trans, don't make trans characters anymore.
01:28And I tell them, hey, wait, wait, there has to be pioneers, we have to have pioneers.
01:35I mean, this is a war that hasn't ended, it's just getting started, we're just getting weapons.
01:41Although before we didn't have feet or a head and we have 50 years marching for our rights.
01:49And they keep killing us.
01:51Right now, Mexico is still the second country with the most trans feminicides worldwide.
01:57So I think we are at a time when we can stop that and make community among Mexicans and say,
02:05let's see, we are all a fan of colors, this is Mexico, this is Mexico.
02:10Why do we have to close it and leave it like that, nothing more, without color, and be like the whole world?
02:18That's what distinguishes Mexico and Latin America, all that flavor, that spiciness,
02:23that variety and diversity as people.
02:27Well, Coco Máxima as such started out as a drag queen here in Mexico City.
02:32That's how I, as a trans person, decided to enter the world of femininity.
02:41So I was very afraid of being who I was because I knew my family was going to reject me,
02:47my friends, my partners.
02:49I said, they're going to reject me because it's a very rejected community.
02:53Obviously, there is a tremendous fear.
02:56So I started as a drag queen and I said, I'm going to start dressing up,
03:00becoming a character and Coco Máxima came up.
03:04Fortunately, I had spectacular opportunities to work with great artists like the Maska Brothers,
03:11Karime Pinter, Christopher Uckerman, certain people who empowered me a lot as a drag queen
03:18and who helped me to know who I really was and to dare to say, this is me and period.
03:28I'm not going to worry about what they'll say, if my family, if my dad, I'm sorry.
03:34Obviously, everything that I was afraid was going to happen happened, but I already knew it.
03:40So it came up and apart from that, I prepared myself.
03:43I'm a person who, during that process, I prepared myself, I studied musical theater,
03:49I'm a master's degree awarded by the Royal School of London.
03:53I'm a professional master's degree in musical theater and I also studied here in a technology school
04:00called G. Martel and another theater called Arte Studio,
04:04the best musical theater schools here in Mexico.
04:07And that shaped me a lot to be able to achieve what I'm doing now.
04:11It also helped me a lot to be a reporter.
04:14I'm a reporter for a platform called Escándala.
04:17It is the most important platform in Latin America for LGBT media.
04:24And that helped me a lot to be an activist, to be able to give with my art something more than fame,
04:32or recognition, but to show stories that actually nourish our Mexican society,
04:38our families, our children.
04:43Well, coconut of the past, I just want to tell you that you don't lose hope.
04:53There will be times when there is not even a ray of light,
05:00but the most powerful light is the one we have in our hearts.
05:04So don't lose your essence, don't let yourself be guided by the criticisms of whoever comes.
05:14You are you, and always love to the maximum, so that you continue to be maximum.