Diane Marie Rodríguez Zambrano (March 16, 1982, Guayaquil, Ecuador) is a transgender activist in human rights, sexuality, and LGBT rights in Ecuador, and a post-feminist who is currently the transgender-chair of the "Silueta X Association" and representative of "Observatory LGBTI of Ecuador".
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.[1]