Historical! First records of children of lesbian mothers in Hidalgo

En un hecho histórico, Pachuca se convirtió en el primer municipio en registrar a un menor de edad de madres lesbianas en Hidalgo, y ayer Tepeji del Río en el segundo. Sin embargo, ambos casos llevan una historia detrás, en la que la paciencia, el ir y venir, la recopilación de documentos, lidiar con funcionarios sin capacitación ni empatía, fueron el pan de cada día, un esfuerzo menor comparado con la esperanza de ambas parejas de registrar a sus bebés, en Hidalgo, el estado en el que nacieron.

Sweet Daniela and Marlene

El amor entre Sweet Daniela and Marlene se dio hace dos años, a través de redes sociales; un inconveniente: Dulce Daniela vivía en Michoacán, pero esto no detuvo a la pareja de poderse conocer en persona; y tras pasar su incapacidad por covid-19, Dulce Daniela decidió visitar a Marlene allá, en Tepeji del Río, aquí en Hidalgo.

"however, on December 31 of last year, she was tested for blood and turned out positive; she was four weeks old and was my best New Year's gift, and the one I've had my whole life, we started to cry with happiness," Marlene says, in tears of emotion as she remembers the moment.

Jacob Marlon Jiménez Zamora was born on September 7, 2021, at 2: 00 p.m. in Tepeji del Río, but could not be registered, "they told me that egalitarian marriage was already allowed, but not the registration of babies of a lesbian couple... they did not know the procedure," he talks with hopelessness.

Janeth and Rosely

On September 15, 12 years ago, Janeth and Rosely met at a bar, the crush was instantaneous, so they went out for a while, until their paths separated for a few years, but life found them again.

After a family vacation, Janeth and Rosely decided to go to Canada and there they decided to join their lives, "it wasn't so much paperwork, so we decided and spent a honeymoon in different cities in Canada."

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After spending some time traveling and building their relationship, it was also during the pandemic and confinement that brought about the decision to be moms, and they agreed to follow an artificial insemination procedure with Janeth's eggs, so it turned out, and Rosely became pregnant.

Dante Ramón Márquez Montiel was born on August 5 of this year, and for more than two months, they were unable to obtain the birth registration of their baby.

Statement of reasons

In both cases, going and coming from couples to the civil registry was complicated. Marlene, in Tepeji del Río, was constantly coming to know if they already had an answer about the procedure, "and they just told me that Dulce Daniela could register it, but as a single mom, I couldn't believe it! and even more so when they told me to come to Pachuca to fix the matter because in Tepeji you couldn't, and I wanted to register my son there, because he's from Tepeji and he was born there," Marlene explains.

Janeth went to ask four times in Tulancingo's civil registry, "but there is a lot of discrimination and in the offices they Don't know how to attend, they really had no idea how a lesbian moms register is done, and we never thought it would be so difficult, all of this," Rosely says.

Both cases were captured by the Network of Lesbian mothers in Mexico and it was Lol Kin Badillo who began the investigation of why this situation occurred, until they contacted Valeria Lizeth Paniagua Trejo, who was in charge of the Office of the General Directorate of the Family Registry of Hidalgo State, who opened up that both cases would be carried out in strict compliance with the law.

Broad criterion

This office is a coordinating authority of all the municipal authorities of the 84 municipalities of the state, and it is its owner, Paniagua Trejo, who explained that in 2019 the first birth registration of a child born to a couple of women was carried out, "but this was in compliance with the decision of 18 February 2019, issued in an amparo trial 172-2019, by a first district judge in Hidalgo State, that is, at that first opening that took place in compliance with a judicial decision, not because there was such an opening," he said.

Unlike two years ago, both the case of Jacob Marlon and Dante Ramon are taking place under "the light of the reform of the Hidalgo State Family Law that was issued on December 2, 2020, and we can now count on those tools to protect legal affiliation, contemplating legal recognition of the existence of same-sex couples and, at the same time, superior guardianship of children," he explained.

As a result of this reform, with the new municipal administration in 2020, this body was trained to make known the specifications of this law, its implementation and what these reforms benefit the citizenry.

In view of this, on 24 September 2021, the general address for the registration of the family status was the registration of the birth of a minor, Dante Ramón, whose progenitors are two women, including the first register of same-sex couples.

In response to the recommendation issued for the registration of Tepeji del Río, Jacob Marlon was also registered yesterday, October 8, this year, at 4: 00 p.m. in the Tepeji del Río civil registry; both babies exist before society, "and these are achievements that were achieved thanks to the government of the state to benefit the rights of minors, achieving an opening on them to have a family," concluded Paniagua Trejo.