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In a disquieting turn of events, almost half of the representatives are members of a new, extreme right-wing party, with many of them being explicit in their rejection of the idea that women's and gender minorities' rights should be constitutionally established. The current political scenario works as a clear and raw reminder that we cannot take for granted any advancements in terms of gender and/or minorities' rights, that we are always a few steps away from having those hard-won rights revoked. Discussing what we would be writing for this snapshot, a memory came to mind: when we began training to become psychoanalytic psychotherapists in Chile, two young undergraduate classmates some 20 years ago, the idea that one could maintain a psychoanalytic perspective while at the same time engaging deeply with - and recognizing the impact of - women's, minorities, and gender issues, and being activists, was not something that appeared possible, much less desirable. [Extracted from the article]