“I Just Want to Contribute to Society”
The Need for Legal Gender Recognition in Tabasco, Mexico
The 60-page report, “‘I Just Want to Contribute to Society’: The Need for Legal Gender Recognition in Tabasco, Mexico,” documents the pervasive socioeconomic disadvantages that trans people experience due to a mismatch between their gender and their identity documents. A lack of accurate documents, often in combination with anti-trans bias, has led to discrimination, harassment, and violence for trans people.
![English report cover](/sites/default/files/styles/720w/public/media_2024/03/202403americas_mexico_lgbt_tabasco_cover.jpg?itok=ImmyaBka)
![a portrait of Sandra R., a transgender woman, with two family members](/sites/default/files/styles/16x9_large/public/media_2024/02/202403americas_mexico_lgbt_sandra_illustration.jpg?h=3a34ea7b&itok=GSBf3elX)