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352 Así, de las quince candidaturas que se encuentran en este supuesto, resulta conflictivo que la segunda manifestación de autoadscripción hubiere derivado del requerimiento que el Instituto Local realizó, lo que hace suponer que lo que buscaban los partidos era buscar una vía para no cumplir con la paridad y hacer un mal uso de la posibilidad que reconocía el artículo 16 de los Lineamientos. 353 En efecto, si bien es cierto que esta Sala Superior considera que la manifestación basta para autoadscribirse a un género, no pasa desapercibido que los partidos Movimiento Ciudadano y Nueva Alianza pretendieron subsanar el incumplimiento a la paridad presentando supuestas autoadscripciones de candidatos registrados inicialmente como hombres; lo cual permite suponer la intención de mantener a esos candidatos y no colocar en sus posiciones a mujeres. Además, que a decir del Instituto Local, diversos candidatos postulados por estos partidos aspiraban a ser reelectos. 354 Lo anterior es así, porque del análisis de las constancias que obran en autos se advierte que los candidatos manifestaron expresamente ser hombres en diversos formularios suscritos con motivo de la documentación que debía presentarse para el registro de la candidatura, lo cual permite concluir que la primera manifestación de autoadscripción de esas personas a un género fue como hombre, aunque no se hubiere hecho a través del formato a que se refiere el artículo 16 de los Lineamientos, por lo que esta primera manifestación es la que debe surtir los efectos jurídicos conducentes, por haberse presentado al inicio del procedimiento de registro. 355 Ese uso indebido del reconocimiento de la identidad a partir de la autoadscripción denota una actitud procedimental indebida que no podría ser validada por esta autoridad jurisdiccional. En consecuencia, lo que procede es la cancelación de sus candidaturas a la primera concejalía de los ayuntamientos y, por ende, la colocación de mujeres en esos puestos. 356 Lo anterior, no significa que el momento en que se dé la autoadscripción condiciona su veracidad, sino más bien significa que esta Sala Superior se hace cargo de los elementos fácticos que en el caso concreto denotan una intención de hacer uso de la autoadscripción para incumplir con el principio constitucional de la paridad. Create PDF in your applications with the Pdfcrowd HTML to PDF API PDFCROWD

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Mexico SUP JDC 304 2018

Judgment

Question Presented: The High Chamber of the confirmed the validity of the candidacy of two transgender people (muxes in the state of Oaxaca) to occupy public posts reserved for women and revoked the registration of 15 male candidates.

Alleged Acts: On April, 2018, the Institute for Elections and Citizen Participation of Oaxaca (IEEPCO) approved to register 19 people who were self-identified as muxes or transgender, as female candidates for legislative and municipal offices within the gender quotas for women . However, the muxe community of Oaxaca considered that, out of the 19 candidacies, 17 of them were fraudulent since they were only pretending to be transgender. Based on these arguments, members of the muxe community filed a complaint with IEEPCO, against these 17 candidacies. The IEEPCO analyzed the arguments of the claim and, after obtaining some evidence on the gender identity with which these 17 candidates conducted themselves socially, opted to cancel the registration, considering that there were irregularities and that, in its opinion, they were men who had self-identified as transgender women .

Summary: In the ruling SUP-JDC-304/2018 and accumulated dated June 21, 2018, the High Chamber defined two determinant issues: the requirements that the State can demand to any person in order to: 1) prove their gender identity and 2) to access to gender quotas in electoral matters and the measures that the authorities can (and should) adopt to verify the gender identity of a person in order to avoid the fraudulent use of gender quotas. The High Chamber ruled that it is enough to inform the respective authority the gender self-identification with a manifestation that clearly indicates the intent of the person in question. They reached this conclusion for two reasons: due to the application of the principle of progressiveness and to provide the principle of parity or substantive equality a useful and non-discriminatory effect. First, the High Chamber considered that, in accordance with the provisions of articles 1st; 4th; 35th, section II; and, 41th, fourth paragraph of the Constitution, all authorities in Mexico, within the scope of their authority, have the obligation to protect and guarantee human rights, which include legal gender equality, the right to stand for election, and the prohibition of the discrimination of a person due to their gender.

Conclusion: The Electoral Tribunal realized that, as the muxe community had stated, 15 of those 17 candidates had tried to register first as men, but not getting the registration because the male gender quota was already covered, they decided to self-identify as transgender women. For this reason, the High Chamber considered that these 15 applications were contradictory with the second manifestation of self-identification arising from the request made by the IEEPCO. Therefore, independently of the express manifestation of these 15 people self-identifying to the transsexual gender, the High Chamber ordered the cancellation of the registration of these candidacies and ordered to replace them with 15 women.

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Candidate Registration
Gender
Quotas

Region: Americas

Country: Mexico

Language of Decision

Spanish

Court: Electoral Court

Election Type: General

Date of decision: Jun 21, 2018

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Latitude: 19.433186441267804

Longitude: -99.13401777615888

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