Sexual diversity activists have protested in Peru’s capital in front of the health ministry to demand that the government repeal a decree that characterizes seven gender identities, including transgenderism, as “mental illnesses.” Protesters also gathered Friday outside the Peruvian Embassy in Ecuador’s capital, Quito.
A member of the LGBTQ+ community holds up a sign with a message that reads in Spanish: “Nothing to cure”, during a protest against a decree following a decision by the Ministry of Health classifying transgenders as mentally ill, in Lima, Peru , Friday, May 17, 2024. Wearing a Transgender flag as a cape, a member of the LGBTQ+ community joins in a protest against a decree following a decision by the Ministry of Health classifying transgenders as mentally ill, in Lima, Peru , Friday, May 17, 2024.
In Lima, hundreds protested last week’s decree by President Dina Boluarte’s administration. The Ministry of Health said the action would guarantee “comprehensive mental health care coverage” to those affiliated with public, private or mixed health plans, saying it relied on WHO disease categories ended in 2022.
“The decree is a step backwards and is a way to continue closing the doors to progress for our community,” Cruzado said. Gahela Cari, a transgender woman who unsuccessfully ran for congress in 2021, said that “being gay, lesbian, non-binary or bisexual is not a disease, it is a human condition.” In Ecuador, dozens of members of a collective defending the rights of the LGTBQ+ community marched to Peru’s embassy. They staged a sit-in outside while waving flags and signed declaring that “being trans is not a disease.”
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