He President Gustavo Petro He described this Monday as “homophobic“E”unnecessary“The decision of a court of suspend the decree with which Juan Carlos Florián was appointed as Minister of Equality due to the alleged breach of the female gender quota in the ministerial cabinet.
“This measure is unnecessary (…) is a homophobic measure, the debate is important, but it is unaware of the right to be a person against human freedom“The president wrote in the social network X.
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The decision was given because the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca admitted a demand from Law student Juan Manuel Lópezwho asked to cancel Florián’s appointment for the alleged breach of the female gender quota.
The court decrees the “Precautionary measure of provisional suspension of the effects of decree 0892 of August 11, 2025, which appointed Juan Carlos Florián Silva (…) in the employment of minister“
This measure is unnecessary, anyone who develops the debate, which had already been developed in Colombia and now backed away.
It is a homophobic measure, the debate is important, but it is unaware of the right to be a person, it goes straight against human freedom.
The person is … pic.twitter.com/vvonjtydjc
– Gustavo Petro (@Petrogustavo) SEPTEMBER 15, 2025
Florián, meanwhile, has defended that he is a “non -hegemonic person“or”fluid gender“That, therefore, it travels between the feminine and the masculine without necessarily belonging to one or another gender category.
In Colombia, the Quota law It was approved in 2000 and It provides that 50% of high public office in the country, both nationally and departmentally and municipal, must be exercised by womenalthough it is a percentage that is rarely fulfilled.
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In this regard, the president said Monday that “The person is free and we know that we must develop freely, but we return to slavery, slavery cannot be allowed again“
“If a person feels that he is a man or woman, says that person. That is his right and no one, absolutely no one can force the opposite, neither judge, nor police, nor father, nor society, nor State. The prioritization of personal freedom is that it makes us democratic socialists, real liberals, libertarians“Petro added.
President Gustavo Petro
On the other hand, the Interior Minister Armando Benedettihe said that the government complies with the fees law because it appointed as Minister of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to Gloria Perdomo.
“With the designation of the new Minister of ICT, Gloria Patricia Perdomo, demand loses sustenance. The Government complies with the installment law“Benedetti said in his X account.
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In that sense, Petro insisted: “The measure is unnecessary because for weeks, even the legal concept of what Juan Florian is, there is gender parity in my cabinet, because with Juan being a man or woman, or both, there is parity in my cabinet“
Florián’s appointment
The political scientist Florián, who was a porn actor, He assumed on August 11 as Minister of Equality, a portfolio in which since April he already held the position of Vice Minister.
The new minister has 20 years of experience in international cooperation organizations, such as Doctors Without Borders and Save the Children.
He was also a sex worker and made adult pornographic contentas he revealed in early August on social networks.
“No, I don’t come from elites. I come from the streets, of the fight, of real activism. I was a sex worker, I made adult content, I am HIV positive, and I was migrant“Florián wrote.
EFE
