The combination of academic and cultural activities of sexual education and community participation promote this purpose, said the director of the National Sexual Education Center (Cenesex), Mariela Castro Espín.
The expert highlighted during a television appearance this Wednesday afternoon on the Mesa Redonda news program, the need to continue making visible the forms of violence in which transsexual people and their families experience.
Castro Espín highlighted the purpose of Cenesex to provide tools against different forms of discrimination and under the premise that love is law, endorsed in the Magna Carta and the Cuban Family Code.
In that sense, he pointed out the urgency of increasing the communication effort of the country’s institutions to achieve higher levels of understanding of families and society, learning and acceptance of individualities in relation to gender identity and sexual preferences.
Likewise, he highlighted the existence in the LGTBIQ+ community of revolutionary activism in defense of popular causes, in the midst of the active homophobic media crusade that stimulates rejection and discrimination against people with homo and transsexual sexual preferences.
For his part, the deputy director of Cenesex, Gustavo Valdés, pointed out that the combination of academic and cultural activities has the western province of Mayabeque and the country’s capital as its epicenter.
He detailed the holding of the VIII International Transidentities, Gender and Culture Colloquium, a cultural gala, as well as a photographic exhibition, book presentations, community fairs and the traditional conga through the streets of Havana.
During the informative space, other Cenesex experts recounted work experiences of that institution throughout the country that are revealed during the annual Conference against homophobia and transphobia in Cuba, organized since 2008.
During those days, they explained, the purpose of contributing to the development of comprehensive sexuality education, and the recognition and guarantee of the rights of all people without distinction, as an exercise of equity and social justice, is reinforced.
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