"The experience I lived in Session 551 was a positive and constant challenge to my emotional and intellectual journey. The personal stories of every single one of the fellows I had the honour to meet have impacted me profoundly, not only to have a greater and deeper understanding of the fact that often the places of loneliness in growing up as an LGBT person in a homophobic world, are only part of a greater sense of struggle shared in one way or another by every single one of those, be them from the LGBT community or supporters of it.
I´ve been humbled, inspired, to see how every single story, regardless of point of origin, family context, socio economic status and so forth has turned adversity into human resilience. I felt I was truly surrounded by heroes all the way through the seminar, and that just made me be more conscious not only of the challenge at hand to make our ability to live in this planet a fundamental rights. But also that the pool of knowledge, the power of the ideas, and the level of empathy of this group of people, this small test group of the wider community, tells me that although the struggle is difficult, it relies on quite a truly unique diversity of personalities that I really think have the power of changing the history and path of humanity beyond the question of gender identity and sexual orientation.
As for my work, I have been engaged and will continue for the months and years to come with issues of rule of law, conflict resolution and prevention and transitional justice. After this event, it is much more clear to me the importance of law, legal questions and international treaties to further the battle of inclusion. The fields of conflict are many, health, policy, and so forth, but international law is paramount field through which the LGBT community must wage an important battle of recognition, of real and proper humanization above national laws and via universal acceptance. I have not only a greater confirmation of this but I also have contacts, ideas and concrete ways through which to agitate, activate and continue the process through many channels to ensure this."