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39 Durante la tramitación de los presentes juicios, se recibieron los escritos de la ciudadana Evic Julián Estrada, quien comparece por su propio derecho, en carácter de tercera interesada en el juicio de revisión constitucional electoral SUP-JRC-140/2018, a efecto de hacer diversas manifestaciones relacionadas con la resolución del procedimiento ordinario sancionador por el que se ordena la cancelación definitiva de las candidaturas transgénero. Así como del ciudadano Carlos Quevedo Fabián para comparecer como tercero interesado en el juicio ciudadano SUP-JDC-314/2018 para plantear cuestiones relacionadas con su candidatura a primer concejal por el Ayuntamiento de Santa María Teopoxco, Oaxaca. 40 Al respecto, se tiene a los ciudadanos referidos, compareciendo en su carácter de terceros interesados, de conformidad con lo dispuesto por el artículo 17, párrafo 1, fracción b) y párrafo 2 de la Ley de Medios, en atención a lo siguiente: 41 A. Forma. Los escritos cumplen con los requisitos, toda vez que se hacen constar el nombre de los ciudadanos comparecientes, el domicilio para recibir notificaciones y la firma autógrafa de los mismos. 42 Ahora bien, respecto del escrito presentado por Evic Julián Estrada se advierte que si bien éste no se presentó ante la autoridad responsable, ello no es obstáculo para considerar su improcedencia, toda vez que se presentó directamente ante este órgano jurisdiccional, en razón de que la ocursante manifiesta que se encontraba en la Ciudad de México y le resultaba imposible trasladarse de vuelta a la Ciudad de Oaxaca para la presentación del escrito, sin agotar el plazo otorgado para la comparecencia. 43 B. Oportunidad. Se estima satisfecho toda vez que el escrito presentado por Evic Julián Estrada fue presentado dentro del plazo de setenta y dos horas a que se refiere el artículo 17, párrafo 4 de la Ley de Medios, toda vez que el mismo fue presentado a las veintidós horas con cincuenta y ocho minutos del día ocho de junio del presente año y, de acuerdo con las constancias remitidas por la responsable la fijación del aviso respectivo se publicó en los estrados del Instituto a las quince horas del seis de junio del presente año, por lo que la presentación del escrito es oportuna. 44 De igual manera, se considera oportuna la presentación del escrito de Carlos Quevedo Fabián, ya que el mismo fue presentado el veinticuatro de mayo del presente año a las doce horas con cuarenta y ocho minutos, en tanto que el aviso del juicio ciudadano 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

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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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