What is your analysis of access to the candidacies of popular election positions in Mexico by LGBTIQ+ people?
The candidacies of LGBTQ+ people have gained territory in the last electoral exercises in Mexico. All political parties, Even the traditional right -wing game, They have made possible that LGBTQ+ people compete for positions of popular election. Nevertheless, In most cases, These are candidacies with remote possibilities of having a successful result, questioning the genuinity of the intentions of the parties, who have been accused of instrumentalizing LGBTQ+ candidates.
Parallel, The regulatory framework related to fees to guarantee the participation of LGBTQ+ people in positions of popular election varies from state to state, without achieving an optimal standard that ensures due representation of our populations in congresses and municipalities. This situation finds identity with the national regulatory framework that does not reach to guarantee the participation of populations of sexual and gender diversity in the Mexican legislative bodies.
From your experience, What types of discriminatory and violent episodes live people of sexual and gender diversity by aspiring to a place within the political scaffolding of Mexico?
Just as it happens when violence and discrimination in any context are analyzed, will vary according to the intersectional identity of each person and the particular situations that surround them. In my personal experience, Incidents have come from information media, social networks, some characters in which I participate and, to a lesser extent, of interaction with citizenship. In most cases there have been incidents of verbal violence, Although in my campaign for the mayor I received a threat of physical violence motivated in the visit to a sex work house, from the anger of a neighbor of this space who argued with me after exposing that sex workers have the same right to be visited to expose the existing government proposals in the contest.
For your part, A homoparental couple who competed for a deputation as part of my team was the victim of an act of symbolic violence that gathered the characteristics to consider a threat their personal integrity. This event happened in a context of violence in the elections of 2021, which resulted in the murder of one of the candidates attached to the party in which we participate.
What mechanisms should be implemented by public power to prevent and eradicate these discriminatory facts within electoral processes?
I consider that the existence of specialized prosecutors in the political-electoral rights of priority populations is an element that could contribute greatly to reduce discrimination in the electoral context. Specialized prosecutors are a reality in some states in Mexico, So you should aspire to be a practice throughout the national territory.
As for the legal and political scenario in Mexico with respect to LGBTIQ+ people, What actions carried out recently by organizations produce more hope?
In political terms, I highlight the recent meeting of political leadership held in Mexico City that resulted in the exchange of experiences between people of sexual and gender diversity of much of the continent.
In legal terms, I highlight the series of litigation undertaken by Amicus and other organizations in several federative entities of the country aspiring to create LGBTQ+ budget annexes in the expenditure budgets at the local level. In Guanajuato, This action is deriving in the elaboration of one of the most ambitious diagnostic exercises that have been carried out in the region.
