The Fight for LGBTTTIQ+ Recognition in Mexico
Sexualization of bodies normalized binary classification, marginalizing diverse identities. Communities demand recognition, taking the struggle to institutions. Mexico's CNDH issued a report highlighting legal protections for LGBTTTIQ+ rights, but constant vigilance and adaptation are needed.
In a world where the sexualization of bodies has long functioned as a system of social classification, the division of individuals according to their reproductive systems has been normalized. However, this binary classification fails to account for human diversity, leaving those who do not conform to sexual duality - lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, transgender, transvestites, intersex, queer, and other identities - marginalized and often persecuted.
Faced with harassment, persecution, and discrimination, people with diverse identities, orientations, sexual preferences, and gender expressions have banded together, forming communities to demonstrate and gather in a collective demand for the recognition of identity plurality in the social, legal, and political spheres. This struggle, which has been brewing for decades, has forced nation states to confront and question the dominant discourse on gender and sexuality, which has long established a normality based on the binary identification of male and female.
