 In 2009 she created a legal precedent in favor of the transgender population, to sue the Civil Registry to change her masculine name Luis Benedicto to the feminine Diane Marie.During the General Elections in Ecuador 2013, she became the first openly transgender and second LGBTI candidate to run for elected office in Ecuador, after Sandra Alvarez Monsalve who was elected as Alternate Assemblymember in 2009.In 2017, she was elected as the first trans member of the National Assembly of Ecuador.