Mexico: Hidalgo becomes the first state to recognize non-binary people
The Congress of the state of Hidalgo is leading the way in Mexico: it approved reforms to legally recognize non-binary people over 18 years of age, with an administrative and free procedure.
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On Thursday, November 3, the Congress of the state of Hidalgo approved reforms to legally recognize non-binary people over the age of 18. It is the first Mexican state to recognize non-binary identity.
In Mexico, at least two non-binary people had already been legally recognized through injunctions. This first occurred in Guanajuato and then in Monterrey . In Hidalgo, following these reforms, the recognition of gender identity for non-binary people will be a free, administrative process.
By a unanimous vote of 27, the deputies approved reforming the Family Law and the Municipal Organic Law to recognize the gender identity of non-binary people.
The reform to article 214 of the Family Law, as published in the Congress of Hidalgo, establishes : “persons whose self-perception of gender does not fall within the categories of male or female, will have the right to the recognition and registration of their non-binary gender.”
What will the procedure be like?
This reform recognizes non-binary people over the age of 18, who will no longer be required to provide proof, diagnoses, or expert opinions to have their identity recognized. Until now, transgender people had to travel to Pachuca, the state capital, to obtain their birth certificate.
The procedure will be carried out at the Directorate of the Civil Registry of the Executive Branch of the State or before a Registry official in any municipality of the state of Hidalgo.
In addition, reforms were approved in the Organic Law that allow the administrative procedure that recognizes the identity of trans and non-binary people to be carried out free of charge in the 84 municipalities that make up the state of Hidalgo.
This initiative was presented on May 17 by Congressman Miguel Ángel Martínez Gómez and accompanied by Luis Ángel Tenorio Cruz, the first openly gay congressman in that state.
The reforms only need to be published in the Official Gazette of the State of Hidalgo to come into effect.
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