Clinic case: the right to sexual identity in Colombia. A look at its jurisprudential development and advances to its protection
Keywords:
gender, identity, rights to sexual identity and gender identity, the right to health, sexual reassignment, gender dysphoria, depathologizationAbstract
The article presents the experience of work of the Legal Clinic of Gender and Human Rights at the University of Medellin during 2015, in which he devoted himself to accompany a trans woman who comes to the clinic seeking support and advice to ask the health system the start of treatments and medical procedures, aimed at sexual reassignment. The case was studied by the clinic, who reflected on the construction of sexual identities and gender, and reviewed the main jurisprudential rulings of the Constitutional Court, which account for judicial activism for the recognition and guarantee of rights of the population sexually diverse. Also, the case from the clinical methodology allowed to explore the reality faced by transgender people to go to the health system, and suggests some good practices aimed at legal recognition of the construction of sexual identity as a right to special protection by the State.
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Normas y leyes
D. 1227/2015 “Por el cual se adiciona una sección al decreto 1069 de 2015, Único Reglamentario del Sector Justicia y del Derecho, relacionada con el trámite para corregir el componente sexo en el Registro del Estado Civil”.
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