Gender Identity Law: The steps that the Government must follow to modify the norm

The Government announced that it will modify the Gender Identity Law and will prohibit hormonization treatments and surgical interventions in children under 18. An outstanding issue is that it will do so through a Decree of necessity and urgency (DNU). However, voices warn about the process to follow to achieve it and a source warned Scope on the impact of the measure on the trans community.

The Provincial Director of Equality and Diversity Policies of the Government of Santa Fe, Pamela Rocchi states that in minors “hormonization is not common Not much less gender identity surgeries “ And he points out that the government speaks from “a total ignorance of the reality of the transvestite – trans collective.”

“We are a minority to which all our rights violates him from an early age: having a family, education, health and work. In 2012 we saw a light of hope that our life expectancy changes And today we go back and send our adolescents to underground, “concludes the official.

What would be the modification of a law by DNU

The lawyer and professor of constitutional law Pedro Caminosmember of the Civil Association of Constitutional Studies (ACEC), he said in dialogue with TN that “in the question of the DNU in general, the Constitution establishes that the President cannot issue legislative measures.

“It is prohibited under penalty of absolute nullity, unless there were reasons for necessity and urgency that made it impossible to wait for the ordinary procedure for the sanction of the laws,” added the lawyer. In addition, he said that in order to dictate the DNU, “”The government has to explain why you can’t wait for Congress to meet. Even now that the Executive called Extraordinary, why he did not include it in the agenda, if he considered it so important. ”

“Whenever there is a DNU, The explanation must be why we cannot wait for Congress. If there is no reasonable response, it is because the DNU is unconstitutional, ”he insisted.

The Government announced that it will prohibit hormonization treatments in children under 18 years

The presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni announced Wednesday that the government will prohibit the treatments of hormonization in children under 18 contemplated in the Gender Identity Law approved in 2012. Days ago, President Javier Milei had criticized these treatments after the massive LGBT pride march last Saturday.

Adorni justified this decision by maintaining that these “Interventions exposed to children is a serious risk to their health, Both physical and mental, since it implies an interruption in its maturation process. “To do this, he anticipated that the Government will modify the Gender Identity Law.