Uruguay's Transgender Law: Compensatory pensions will begin today

Approximately 30 subsidies of 12,400 pesos each were approved.

December 26, 2019

Photo: Mariana Grief

Today, Thursday, people covered by the Comprehensive Law for Transgender People will begin receiving the first reparations payments from three Benefit and Contribution Bases (BPC). Approximately 30 subsidies of 12,400 pesos each were approved.

In July, the Special Reparation Commission - made up of the Ministry of Social Development, the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Social Security Bank and activists - had reported the approval of the first seven benefits contemplated in Law No. 19,684.

Article 10 of the law states that the reparations regime will be accessible to “trans persons born before December 31, 1975, who reliably prove that, due to causes related to their gender identity, they were victims of institutional violence or deprived of their liberty, having suffered moral or physical damage, as well as being prevented from the full exercise of the rights of free movement, access to work and study, due to discriminatory practices committed by agents of the State.”

Today, Thursday, about 30 people will begin receiving a little over 12,400 pesos, as confirmed to La Diaria by sources from the social movement.

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