For the first time in the country’s history, the Civil Registry of the Mexican state of Guanajuato issued a birth certificate to a person of non-binary gender after a judicial process.
Fausto Martínez, a 26-year-old activist, obtained the certificate in which “NB” (non-binary) now appears in the “sex” section.
The process began on September 24 of last year, when Fausto asked the National Electoral Institute (INE), which has a protocol for transgender people, for a credential to vote with the “NB” specification.
The INE refused the request because there was no official document to corroborate this genre, which is why Fausto and the Amicus association obtained the support of a judge granted on February 11.
In Mexico, where the Civil Registry is a local jurisdiction, about half of the 32 states have a gender identity law that allows transgender people to rectify their gender in official documents.
Furthermore, the Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that “gender identity is a constitutive and constitutive element of people’s identity, which is why its recognition by the State is of vital importance”.
But this is the first time that a certificate has been issued in Mexico for a non-binary person, and that was in Guanajuato, a state where there is no law recognizing gender identity.
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