Escuela Amaranta Gómez Regalado or Amaranta School is a private school in Santiago, Chile for transgender students from 6 to 17 years old. It is named for Amaranta Gómez Regalado, a transgender Mexican politician, and is the first primarily transgender school in Latin America,^[1] possibly the world.^[2]

First proposed in December 2017,^[3] the school was opened in April 2018 by Ximena Matura, the school coordinator, and Evelyn Silva, its head, who is the president of the Selenna Foundation, a trans rights organization.^[1] Housed in space in a community center donated by the community of Ñuñoa,^[4][5] as of May 2019^[update] enrollment is 38, 22 or 23 trans-identifying and the remainder mostly friends and relatives.^[2] The students report having been bullied,^[5][6] and most had previously dropped out of school.^[2] Chile bans the teaching or discussion of "gender ideology" in state-funded schools, but the country passed a gender identity law allowing those 14 or older to change the gender on their identity documents, with parental permission required for those under 18.^[1]

The school has two classrooms, for students under 12 and for those aged 12 to 17.^[2] As of May 2019^[update] teachers were working without pay,^[4] and Maturano and Silva paid all other costs for the first year,^[1] but monthly fees were proposed to begin in March.^[3][5] A summer program started in 2019 had 20 participants,^[3] 8 not previously enrolled, and the school hopes to win a competition grant of $20,000 from an international trans fund in order to expand.^[1][3] Students must take tests provided by the Ministry of Education to certify that they have passed a grade level.^[7]

The school is named for Amaranta Gómez Regalado, a Zapotec Mexican trans activist and politician who identifies as a muxe.^[8] It is nicknamed les niñes, the Spanish gender-neutral form of "the children".^[7]