Diane Marie Rodríguez Zambrano (was born 16 March 1982) is an Ecuadorian activist and politician who focuses on human rights and LGBT rights in Ecuador. She is the transgender-chair of the Silhouette X Association and a representative of Observatory LGBTI of Ecuador. Moreover, in 2009, she created a legal precedent in favor of the transgender population, to sue the Civil Registry to change her birth name to her present name. In 2017, she was elected as the first trans member of the National Assembly of Ecuador, and the second LGBT member after Sandra Alvarez Monsalve, who was elected as Alternate Assembly member in 2009. She completed her mandate in 2021. Biography Early life In 2000, at the age of 17, she began her work as an activist with the now-defunct foundation Amigos por la Vida (Friends for Life) in the city of Guayaquil. She was initially the Secretary to the Foundation's president in this volunteer organization. After a year, she began to connect with other NGO youth groups. She championed with other young LGBTI the processes related to sexual orientation and HIV/AIDS in the first bill of youth, promoted at the time by the "house of youth" of the old ministry of "social welfare" of Ecuador. After several years, she directly contacted the Kimirina Corporation to participate as a field researcher in the "Needs Assessment" in transgender populations which would reaffirm their hypothesis of the situational state of transgender people in those years. The results of the study were published after a year. She developed LGBT activist rights in Ecuador while she was in college studying Commercial Engineering. She left in her second year due to bullying at the various companies where she worked. Community-based organization In 2006, with the support of the "transgender project" of Quito, she created in the city of Guayaquil the community-based organization (CBO): "Future Community", an organization that focuses on specialized local activism for gender identity. This proposal arose from the confusion and the need of its founders to separate the issues: sexual orientation and gender identity. The organization failed after six months due to "Gaytriarchy - gaytriarcado" (a portmanteau of gay and patriarchy coined by Diane Rodriguez in 2012) that made their work illegitimate. Silueta X After serving for 26 years, she created the girl group "Silhouette X" (Silueta X), whose name comes from the questioning before the system Kish-Straight. The activities of this