Public Policies for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans in Argentina. Proposal from the Argentine Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Trans of a federal public policy for citizenship of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans in Argentina. Plan de ciudadanía LGBT: de la igualdad legal a la igualdad real / con colaboración de Fer- nando Baggio; compilado por Maria Rachid; coordinado por Esteban Paulon. - 1a ed. - Buenos Aires: Programa Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo - PNUD; ONUSIDA, FALGBT, 2013. 60 p. ; 24x17 cm. ISBN 978-987-1560-45-5 1. Ciudadanía. 2. Derecho. I. Baggio, Fernando, colab. II. Rachid, Maria, comp. III. Paulon, Es- teban, coord. CDD 346 Diseño editorial: Martín Peretti Scioli www.MartinPerettiScioli.com.ar Impreso en Maple Rosario S.A. Lima 762 - 2000 Rosario www.maplerosario.com.ar Table of Contents Municipal Councils ......................................................26 in the National Ministry of Social Development ............43 Penalization of Discriminatory Acts..................................26 Orientation, Accompaniment, and Safe Spaces for Presentation ...................................................................7 Experience: Legal Penalization of Discriminatory Acts LGBT Youth ...............................................................................43 in Rosario ..................................................................................26 Experience: LGBT Safe Spaces in San Juan ..................43 Public Policy for Inclusion and Real Equality Security and Prevention of by Esteban Paulón ...................................................................9 Institutional Violence................................................. 43 Judicial Branch and Public Ministry ............... 29 UN and LGBT Citizenship Plan Security Protocol for LGBT Individuals ............................44 by Martín Santiago Herrero ................................................ 11 Specific Difficulties for LGBT Security .............................44 Experience: Federal Security Forces and the National Diversity, wonderful wealth Intervention by themes.......................................... 33 Ministry of Security ................................................................45 by Alberto A. Stella .................................................................12 Experience: Protocol for Intervention of Security For- The Workplace ............................................................. 34 ces in Santa Fe ........................................................................45 Public Policy for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Experience: The Textile Cooperative “Estilo Diversa Trans Citizens ................................................................13 LGBT” ........................................................................................35 Intervention for Specific Groups ....................... 46 Experience: Roundtable for Business Companies on LGBT Youth .................................................................... 46 Sexual Diversity ......................................................................35 Executive Branch .......................................................17 Lesbians and Bisexual Women ........................... 48 The Healthcare System ............................................35 National Secretariat for LGBT Citizens .............18 LGBT-Friendly Health Care Centers ................................37 Trans Men and Trans Women .............................. 48 Experience: Hospital Fernández in La Plata..................37 Actions in Provinces and Municipalities ...........18 Experience: LGBT-Friendly Medical Centers at LGBT Elders .................................................................. 50 Local Areas for Sexual Diversity ........................................18 UNAIDS .....................................................................................38 Gay and Bisexual Men .............................................. 50 Experience: Sexual Diversity Area in Neuquén ............19 Experience: Medical Center at Hospital Fleming in San Experience: The Roundtable for Sexual Diversity in Rio Martín.........................................................................................38 Cuarto ........................................................................................20 Experience: Hospital Ramos Mejía in Buenos Aires ...38 Experience: LGBT-Friendly Gynecologists for Lesbians Bibliographic References, Federal Council for LGBT Citizens ..................... 20 and Bisexual Women ............................................................38 FALGBT Staff, Credits and Dialog Table between Governments and the Acknowledgements .............................................. 53 Education .........................................................................39 LGBT Community ....................................................... 20 Experience: Dialogue Table in Santa Fe ..........................21 Culture and Sports..................................................... 40 Legislative Agenda ................................................... 23 Communication and Information ........................41 National Legislation ...................................................24 Social Development and Participation ..............42 Experience: National Coordination for Sexual Diversity Provincial Legislation ................................................25 Presentation 7 country set a new international standard regarding Public Policy for Inclusion and Real rights of trans people, with no restrictions, without Equality pathology, and guaranteeing dignity, integral access to health care, and social inclusion. The first Plan for LGBT Citizens was created by the Argentina Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals Nevertheless, the acceptance of these laws does not and Trans (FALGBT) after the Congress passed law stand to revert situations of exclusion and vulnerabili- 26.618 (Marriage Equality) in July 2010, and consis- ty that affect the LGBT community’s access to educa- ted of a series of actions and programs that should be tion, health, employment, quality of life, and rights in enacted to permit the consolidation of equality for the public and private spaces. LGBT community in our country. These situations particularly apply to trans indivi- The Plan also collected the expectations of our mo- duals. While their identity is recognized through a vement before the acceptance of the Gender Identity simple national procedure, they still face harsh cha- Esteban Paulón. President, FALGBT Law, which finally was passed in May 2012, five years llenges and situations of exclusion and discrimination after the FALGBT and the Association of Travestis, even greater than those that other members of the Transexuals, Transgenders of Argentina (ATTTA) LGBT community have in their daily lives. presented the first bill on this area in the National Congress. It should be noted that during the period that has passed between the first Plan of Citizenship and There are many signs of the positive effects this legis- this second version, many people and organizations lation has on our society, such as profound advances have taken some actions with national and local go- in rights and the promotion of citizenship for lesbians, vernments throughout the country, both within the gays, bisexuals, travestis, and transexuals throug- FALGBT itself and its members organizations, some hout the nation. And this legislation continues to have of which are recognized in this publication as “good a positive effect throughout all of Latin America. practices” for the inclusion and promotion of LGBT rights. In the case of Marriage Equality, the law came to offer protection and acknowledgment to all couples and fa- As a consequence of the work that the FALGBT has milies, and promoted a debate that united all corners carried out since its origins, there have been a varie- of our country and allowed all members of our society ty of great successes, such as the Sexual Diversity to better understand the daily realities of so many Ar- Program of INADI in 2007, the creation of the Areas of gentineans who, until that moment, had been second- Sexual Diversity in the municipality of Rosario, Neu- class citizens. quén and Río Cuarto, the abolition in all provinces of the articles of the Fault Codes that penalized sexual In the same sense, with the law of Gender Identity our diversity, the installation of LGBT-specific spaces in 9 the National Ministries of Employment, Health, and Social Planning, the publication of educational mate- rial together with the National Ministry of Education to create an Integral Sexual Education program and the establishment of LGBT-friendly health care servi- ces in numerous provinces, whose number has only increased after the acceptance of the Law on Gender Identity. These programs, and others that we recognize in this publication, are only some of the hundreds of exam- ples that the FALGBT and its partner organizations have designed and implemented during the past few years. In light of the legislative advances and the public po- licies implemented in this year and a half since the original Plan was released, the FALGBT proposes to make a revision of this plan to reflect advances our community still needs and current struggles, reaffir- ming our desire to implement an integral plan of pu- blic policy based in the demands of lesbians, gays, bi- sexuals and trans in Argentina, and which spans all levels of government and all powers of the