La protección de la identidad de género de las personas trans desde la Constitución ecuatoriana.

Abstract

This academic article addresses the way in which the Ecuadorian Constitution protects the right to gender identity in trans people, from the decriminalization of homosexuality in Ecuador in 1997 to the present, where a specific law recognizes gender change instead of sex on the identity document. However, the perspective of the protection of the right to gender identity continues to be binary in the sense that it only recognizes men and women whose identity is anchored to a masculine or feminine corporality, which would generate that people who date of the binary configuration of identities would be left out of this recognition. Given this, the present study reflects on the way in which constitutional regulations in Ecuador protect the right to gender identity of trans people and how it is regulated within the legal system.