Snail News. After several peaceful protests, the National Assembly of Venezuela promised to oblige State institutions to enforce in the civil registries requests for name changes for gender reasons, a right established in the law since 2009, but which had not been compliment.
“If you do not have recognition of your identity, when you enter a university, to work, you are belittled or flatly denied, when you go to a health center, the first thing they do is point you out,” assured Ángel Pérez, protester.
Two years ago, the president asked the National Assembly to debate a law allowing equal marriage, but so far it remains off the agenda.
“I leave that task to the next National Assembly, the task of LGTBI marriage,” said Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela.
The government’s promises are still not effective. Equal marriage was one of the issues that encouraged the LGTBIQ+ movements to support the 2017 constituent assembly. They demand that they be listened to.
“We complied with the legal requirements, which was to collect 0.1 percent of the signatures of the electoral population, we complied with it and they have not yet complied, not even telling us if this bill is going to be discussed or not,” said Koddy Campos, LGTBIQ+ community activist.
These organizations also request that the law that punishes homosexual relations within the National Armed Forces be repealed with up to three years in prison.
