“I am very respectful and I believe in freedom,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Tuesday and asked for forgiveness. Salma Luévano, the first trans representative in the national Congress, praised the president's comments.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked for forgiveness after the controversial description of a transgender parliamentarian as a “man dressed as a woman”. “I am very respectful and I believe in freedom,” said the head of state on Tuesday. People should be able to decide their own gender identity, he added.
Representative Salma Luévano, the first trans representative in the national Congress, praised her statement. “This statement is extremely important because it highlights a struggle that has cost us decades. I’m a woman and that’s not up for discussion,” she wrote on the online platform X, formerly Twitter. Activists condemned the president's statements and asked him to publicly apologize.
Trans or transgender people are people who do not feel they belong to the gender they were assigned at birth. (APA)