Peru: Gender Identity Bill Introduced
With the support of the Broad Front (a left-wing coalition), the committees for its review and debate must now be chosen in Congress. Yesterday, the gender identity bill was presented in Congress, which would recognize the right to identity for thousands of transgender people in Peru who suffer social exclusion and denial of their citizenship.
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With the support of the Broad Front (left-wing coalition), the committees for its review and debate must now be chosen in Congress.
Yesterday, a gender identity bill was introduced in Congress that would recognize the right to identity for thousands of transgender people in Peru, who suffer social exclusion, denial of their citizenship, and extreme violence. So far this year, three transgender women have been murdered because of their gender identity.
Today we presented the Gender Identity Bill, which seeks to recognize the rights of transgender people in Peru. #RightsForAll pic.twitter.com/6affH3QaJB
— Indira Huilca (@IndiraHuilca) December 14, 2016
Its main proponents, the Broad Front socialist congresswomen Indira Huilca and Marisa Glave, were present at the bill's presentation, which required five signatures to enter the chamber. The Broad Front (a left-wing coalition) is the only political party that included the gender identity law in its platform. "Access to healthcare and employment is almost nonexistent for these people, and this begins because the State does not recognize them with their own identity," Huilca told Presentes .
What follows now is the selection of committees for its review and debate.
Gender Identity Bill.pdf by Indira Huilca on Scribd
According to figures compiled by the Institute for Studies on Health, Sexuality and Human Development (IESSDEH), approximately 10% to 20% of the trans population does not have a national identity document (DNI). This figure is only 1% in the general population.
In Peru, deaths are recorded thanks to the annual reports produced by the Center for the Promotion and Defense of Sexual and Reproductive Rights and the Peruvian LGBTI Network. From 2008 to 2015, a total of 32 trans people died: 31 women and one man.
Murders are not the only ways in which this community is harmed. It is estimated approximately 22,500 transgender women live in Lima, the capital of Peru, alone. Of these, 89% lack health insurance, and 70% are forced into prostitution due to a lack of other employment opportunities.
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