The participation of Lucas Grimson, A young official of the Ministry of Health, in the part issued on Wednesday morning, generated a great impact on social networks for using the inclusive language. Who is he 19 year old student that went viral.
In his speech on the occasion of International Youth Day, who provided during the issuance of the daily report of the sanitary portfolio, in addition to using the “e”, Grimson surprised by his way of speaking. He used the expression “the pibis” to differentiate it from the boys and girls.
“It is key that we young people also take care of ourselves. No one is more cool for not wearing a mask on the street or for putting it on badly. The kids, the girls, them pibis we can be part of facing this pandemic, “he said.
As a result of that and the debate it generated, his name and images traveled the networks. Grimson has 19 years And, as presented on his Twitter profile, he works in the Ministry’s Directorate for Adolescents and Youth.
He also studies Political Science and militates in New Majority, a feminist political space that is part of the Front of All.
It is key that the youths can talk about what happens to us and that we are part of the decision-making process. We are going to continue working so that many pibis have more and more spaces for expression, ours and visible. #WeMakeListenpic.twitter.com/ySWVRs5qQd
His involvement in politics began in high school. She graduated from the Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza (ILSE) where he integrated the Gender Commission of the school, a group that he had formed together with former classmates and that rethink masculinity.
The young man, son of the anthropologist and advisor to Alberto Fernandez Alejandro Grimson, began to use inclusive language, at that time. As he told TN.com.ar in 2018At first it was easier for him to use it when he wrote, but then he incorporated it into orality. “I used it mostly to send messages, but it happened to me a lot not to be able to read it written with the ‘x’. So I chose the ‘e’, and I used it to speak in public first. Later, I incorporated it into everyday life and also chose words as ‘people’ who had no gender mark “, he assured at the time.
During the conference on Wednesday, he spoke directly to young people about the importance of respecting care to prevent contagion of coronavirus. “Nobody is more cool for not wearing a chinstrap on the street, “he said.
“On this date we focus on the participation of adolescents and youth in decision-making and in health promotion actions in the context of pandemic. We understand health from an integral conception and it is essential to consider participation as part of this, “added Grimson.
With regard to the position of the youngest in quarantine, he acknowledged that “the confinement can generate anger, boredom, loneliness“but he insisted that it is important to remember” that both distancing and isolation are physical but not emotional. ”
