Argentina Passes Law to Reserve 1% of All Government Jobs for Transgenders

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Argentina Passes Law to Reserve 1% of All Government Jobs for Transgenders

July 10th, 2021

Awake Goy

Argentina’s Senate has passed a bill mandating a quota of transvestite and transgendered workers be hired by all government agencies and now it is up to the Executive to pass it into law.

The bill was endorsed by 55 Senators, while only one voted against it and 6 others abstained. A Lower House approval earlier this month leaves it now up to President Alberto Fernández to sign it into law.

The project was introduced by the ruling Frente de Todos bloc and after voting, LGBTIQ supporters headed by Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity Elisabeth Gómez Alcorta was welcomed in private by Senate Speaker, Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in her office, together with Deputy Máximo Kirchner and other FdT lawmakers.

In Argentina, seven provinces already have a transvestite labour quota as do several municipalities. The bill had been approved in the last session of Deputies by a large majority (207 votes in favour, 11 against and 7 abstentions). It establishes a quota of 1% for national State agencies of all sorts as well as incentives for the hiring of transvestite and trans people in the private sector and financial support for transvestite productive projects.