{"id":429,"date":"2021-09-27T18:47:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.accesia.info\/?p=429"},"modified":"2022-06-05T10:48:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T10:48:21","slug":"luchas-de-defensoras-del-colectivo-lgtbiq-en-el-salvador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/luchas-de-defensoras-del-colectivo-lgtbiq-en-el-salvador\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggles of defenders of the LGTBIQ+ collective in El Salvador"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item quickedit-field\" data-quickedit-field-id=\"node\/116\/body\/es\/full\">\n<p>The <strong>October Center for Contemporary Culture<\/strong> hosted on the afternoon of <strong>Monday September 20\u00a0<\/strong>the colloquium on\u00a0<strong>\u201cStruggles and resistance of defenders of LGTBIQ+ rights in El Salvador\u201d<\/strong>, within the framework of a project that was born in response to the protection needs of women defenders of sexual rights and other rights associated with gender identity and sexual orientation in the country. A colloquium that included the participation of <strong>Paula Morcillo<\/strong> \u2013 project director of the Foundation for Justice \u2013, <strong>Jos\u00e9 de Lamo Pastor <\/strong>\u2013 General Director of Equality in Diversity \u2013, <strong>Marta Bofi<\/strong> \u2013social worker of the GVA Orienta service\u2013, <strong>Lorena Sanz<\/strong> \u2013 lawyer from the Orienta service \u2013, <strong>Karla Avelar<\/strong> y <strong>Bianka Rodriguez<\/strong> \u2013 defenders of LGTBIQ+ rights in El Salvador \u2013.<\/p>\n<p>This is a project that is framed within the\u00a0<strong>V Director Plan of Valencian cooperation 2021-2024<\/strong>, pursuing the reduction of inequality and the defense of people&#039;s fundamental rights. Promoting, in turn, the <strong>Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda <\/strong>16 \u2013 <strong>peace, justice and strong institutions<\/strong> \u2013, 17 \u2013 <strong>alliances to achieve objectives<\/strong> -, 5 - <strong>gender equality <\/strong>\u2013 and 10 \u2013 <strong>reduction of inequalities <\/strong>\u2013.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008 and after serving 5 years in prison, Karla Avelar became one of the four founders of<strong> COMCAVIS TRANS<\/strong>: \u201cI had the opportunity to have been imprisoned and to have known the situation of my companions, I came out of that place very traumatized, but with a lot of strength and many commitments.\u201d Thus, after realizing that circumstances had to change, they decided to claim themselves as women and work for those needs, creating the association on July 5, 2008 and receiving legal personality in 2011.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00abI had the opportunity to have been imprisoned and to have known the situation of my companions\u00bb, Karla Avelar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bianka Rodr\u00edguez stressed that <strong>El Salvador leads the second country with the highest rate of homicides of LGTBI people<\/strong> and made reference to the non-existence of the word \u201cjustice\u201d: \u201cIn El Salvador there is no Bianka Rodr\u00edguez, in my identity document they still identify me with a male name and gender.\u201d Likewise, he highlighted that the difficulty in obtaining a decent job forces many of them to practice prostitution \u2013 in unsustainable and dangerous circumstances \u2013 as a means of subsistence.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn El Salvador there is no Bianka Rodr\u00edguez\u201d, Bianka Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unlike what happens in El Salvador, in Argentina and Switzerland the change of name and sex is allowed, but this requires a prior medical report. That is, a process that, as Karla Avelar defines it, is \u201ctraumatic\u201d, since it is not the person themselves who defines their gender, but is left in the hands of a psychiatric examination. Thus, the \u201cpathology\u201d diagnosed towards trans people in El Salvador is called <strong>\u201cgender incongruence\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In reference to the main <strong>pursuit agents <\/strong>that force trans people to leave El Salvador, Bianka Rodr\u00edguez highlighted\u00a0<strong>gangs, religious leaders, the extreme right and state security forces<\/strong>. A list to which Marta Bof\u00ed included the persecution of<strong> the family itself<\/strong>. Likewise, the risk of returning to Salvadoran territory once they have fled in search of protection to another country was highlighted.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat is happening in El Salvador can also happen in Spain\u201d, Bianka Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All this was highlighted by Bianka Rodr\u00edguez who warned that, even if you have all the rights, you have nothing gained and that &quot;what is happening in El Salvador can also happen in Spain.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Octubre Centre de Cultura Contempor\u00e1nea acogi\u00f3 en la tarde del lunes 20 de septiembre\u00a0el coloquio sobre\u00a0\u201cLuchas\u00a0y resistencias\u00a0de defensoras de los\u00a0derechos LGTBIQ+\u00a0en El Salvador\u201d,\u00a0en el marco de un proyecto\u00a0que naci\u00f3 en respuesta a las\u00a0necesidades de protecci\u00f3n de mujeres defensoras de los derechos sexuales y otros derechos asociados a la identidad de g\u00e9nero y orientaci\u00f3n sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[182,126],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sensibilizacion","tag-el-salvador","tag-trans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}