Leonie Dorado, a transgender news anchor, is seen at the TV studio amid the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in La Paz, Bolivia, July 1, 2020. Picture taken July 1, 2020. REUTERS/David Mercado
LA PAZ (Reuters) - Leonie Dorado, 26, is blazing a trail as the first transgender news anchor in Bolivia, a traditionally conservative South American nation currently in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic.
Dorado, the new co-host of Bolivian program Aby Ayala TV, covers LGBTQ issues in her role, drawing on her own transition and life experience as a trans person.
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