San Salvador (EFE).- With colorful costumes, extensive flags and music, the LGBTIQ+ community joined the celebrations for International Pride Day, which is celebrated worldwide every June 28.
The hundreds of attendees, who gathered near the state University of El Salvador (UES), took to the main streets of San Salvador in a march that ended in Salvador del Mundo square.
During the tour, the participants demanded respect, the fulfillment of their rights as Salvadoran citizens, an end to discrimination, and the prompt approval of a gender identity law.
“We are not going to go back one more step in demanding and vindicating our rights,” transgender activist Bianka Rodríguez, also leader of the Association Communicating and Training Trans Women (Concavis Trans), told EFE.
Gender identity law, LGBTIQ+ claim
For years, LGBTIQ+ groups have called for a gender identity law that allows them to change their name to the gender they identify with.
“It is a pride to participate in this parade as a trans woman and we are fighting for a gender identity for trans people,” Geisel Portillo, who carried a large flag with the colors of diversity, told EFE.
Portillo, a 40-year-old trans woman, said that she asks Salvadoran society to “be less discriminatory and that there be more inclusion on the part of the Government.”
“We say present to demand a gender identity law that protects us,” Bella Montúfar told EFE, who also demanded “more tolerance, more respect, more inclusion and more support” for the entire population, which is “a friendly and sister to all.”
In February 2022, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice ordered Congress in a ruling to “issue the reform that is necessary to provide for the conditions that must be met by any person who wishes to change their name so that it is compatible with their identity.” of genre”.
The constitutionalist magistrates gave the deputies a period of one year to issue this reform to the Law on the Name of the Natural Person, a period that has already expired and in Congress, dominated by the ruling party, the issue has not been addressed.