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If you hear that Puerto Rico’s new proposed Civil Code is “anti-LGBT”, this isn’t true. The new Civil Code proposes two things: 1) that changes in gender markers in documents should be based on medical evaluation and sex should be kept as a category...
...for Demographic Registry and birth certificates, 2) that surrogacy in exchange for money should be illegal while maintaining the option of voluntary surrogacy available. These are compromise positions to maintain equilibrium between women’s rights and those of LGBT people.
Of course, the LGBT movement and the neoliberal “left” on the island want to portray the new proposed Civil Code as “taking us back to the Dark Ages” and that the current government is trying to gain favor from its “Christian Right-Wing base”.
No such thing, pro-statehood supporters vary in religious affiliation, just like pro-commonwealth and pro-independence supporters. Our formal government politics are not based on a conservative right and a liberal left, but rather on either annexation or separation in relation..
...to the US.

Si escuchas que el nuevo propuesto Código Civil de Puerto Rico es “anti-LGBT”, no es verdad. El nuevo Código Civil propone dos cosas: 1) que los cambios de género en documentos tengan una evaluación médica y que el sexo se mantenga como categoría válida en el...
...Registro Demográfico y los certificados de nacimiento, 2) que la gestación subrogada con intercambio de dinero sea ilegal, pero mantener la gestación subrogada voluntaria disponible. Estos son compromisos para mantener en equilibrio los derechos de la mujer y los de la...
...comunidad LGBT. Claro, el movimiento LGBT y la “izquierda” neoliberal pintan al nuevo Código Civil de “llevarnos hacia atrás a la Edad Media” y que el actual gobierno quiere votos de su “base de derecha cristiana”. No es así, la afiliación religiosa de los estadistas es...
...variada, como es la de los estadolibristas e independentistas. Nuestra política formal gubernamental no se basa en una derecha conservadora y una izquierda liberal, sino en nuestra anexión o separación en relación con los EEUU.
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