ASSISTED HORMONE REPLACEMENT AS A SUB-RIGHT OF THE RIGHT TO HEALTH OF TRANS PEOPLE: FIRST STEPS OF A LEGAL INTERVENTION

Abstract

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) community is a group that challenges gender and sex norms, that is, they manifest sexual orientations, identity and gender expressions different from those socially and culturally adopted in cis-heteronormativity have shown that this group suffers from systematic and structural discrimination that filters down to the most intimate and elemental aspects of their lives and affects the access and exercise of human rights. This work precisely proposes. the perspective of the first section of the path traveled, through a legal intervention designed and applied in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, whose objective is to achieve the recognition of the right to Assisted Hormone Replacement Therapy (TRHA), as a sub-right or component of the right. right to health of trans people to this end, the rights to identity, free gender expression and the free development of personality are interrelated.