On 4th of September, President Alberto Fenández, through Decree 721/2020 established the creation of the employment quota for transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people within the National Public Sector, through which it is guaranteed that a percentage of no less than 1% of the staff positions must be assigned to the aforementioned persons, when they meet the suitability conditions for them, in any of the current contracting modalities.
This measure is in line with the international commitments assumed by the National State regarding the protection of human rights, as well as the recommendations and pronouncements of different instances of the Universal System for the Protection of Human Rights, of the Inter-American System of Human Rights, monitoring bodies and judicial bodies on the protection of the LGTBI community from all forms of discrimination and the guarantee of the full enjoyment of its rights.
Likewise, it is also an initiative that seeks to transform the structural pattern of inequality that perpetuates the exclusion of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people, who despite significant regulatory advances, such as the Gender Identity Law, continue to have difficulties to enjoy the effective exercise of the right to health, education, decent housing, equitable and satisfactory working conditions, as well as protection against unemployment, without any discrimination.
In this sense, this decree determines that the educational completion requirement cannot be an obstacle to entry and permanence in employment, so that if applicants for jobs did not complete their education, their entry will be allowed with the condition of taking the missing educational levels and completing them. This provision accounts for the chain of exclusions and discrimination suffered by transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people since childhood and therefore seeks to repair it by simultaneously guaranteeing access to employment and education.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity will be in charge of training the authorities and personnel of the National Executive Power to ensure that the inclusion in the jobs of the National Public Sector is carried out in conditions of respect for the gender identity and expression of the people, as well as the creation of the Registry of Transvestite, Transsexual and / or Transgender Persons Applicants to Enter to Work in the National Public Sector and the Interministerial Coordination Unit, in order to fully implement and tailor-made follow-up.
Through the creation of the labor quota for transgender people and transvestites in the national public sector, Argentina once again positions itself at the forefront in the expansion and protection of the rights of the LGTBI collective, promoting the equality and dignity of those who are under a situation of greater vulnerability to build a more just society free from discrimination.
