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Organizations of sexual and gender diversity condemned the statements of the Undersecretary of Human Rights, Lorena Recabarren, who in the framework of the debate for the modification of the “Zamudio Law” advocated allowing therapies that “heal” gender identity or sexual orientation.
During the Senate Human Rights commission, the authority made an observation to the indication to classify and prohibit conversion therapies for LGTBIQ + people, entered by the Lesbian Group Breaking the Silence with the sponsorship of the senator PPD Adriana Muñoz asking “what happens if a person wants to access these therapies, they could accuse discrimination “.
For the lawyer of the group, Constanza Valdés, “the statement of the Recabarren Undersecretariat is unusual, since an LGTBIQ person is subjected and obliges to these therapies, they do not agree voluntarily. A government official who watches over the human rights of all people should be informed much more about these practices than in other countries they are considered a crime ”.
Meanwhile, the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh) went further and demanded the resignation of the undersecretary. In fact, this Tuesday they will go to La Moneda to demand the resignation of the undersecretary and then they will demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Justice.
“This is like legalizing suicide,” said Movilh, noting that Recabarren’s approach is “abominable and totally contrary to human dignity.”
The Movilh spokesman, Oscar Rementería, pointed out that “these therapies are prohibited, totally prohibited, by the World Health Organization, by our own Ministry of Health and by all international human rights organizations.”
“That Recabarren validates the existence of these therapies if a person wants to undergo them, as he pointed out today in the Senate, reflects an open violation of rights, a total ignorance of human dignity. For this, we demand your resignation. You must resign, if you are enabling or wanting a person to be subjected to torture because that is your will. This is like legalizing suicide. It is a violation of human rights that comes from nothing more, and nothing less than the Undersecretary of Human Rights ”, she said.
The Lesbian Association Breaking the Silence recalled that conversion therapies are used to describe medical interventions that have the belief to modify the orientation, identity or gender expression of a person. In some countries such as Mexico, this practice was recently banned and in Ecuador there are innumerable clinics that are dedicated to this, being condemned by international organizations such as PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) that indicates that these practices “have no medical justification and they pose a serious threat to the health and human rights of those affected. “
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