The Controversial Statements of Paraguayan MP Jatar Fernández: Discrimination and Outrage in Congress

2024-03-07 13:41:00
The controversial statements of Paraguayan MP Jatar Fernandez

Paraguayan deputy Jatar “Oso” Fernández is in the eye of the storm in his country following expressing discriminatory phrases towards the LGBTIQ+ community in a session in Congress. He said that “homosexualism is the death of the person himself” and said that he had sexual relations with a transvestite.

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“At some point in my life I have also had a sexual relationship with a transvestite and I am not afraid to say it,” the parliamentarian began to the murmurs of his colleagues; and he continued: “I did it as president (he told the head of the House), I did it by my own decision when I was of age and no one forced me.”

“I know very well what my sexuality is. I am well married to a beautiful wife. Now, they have to be careful with what they say: there are men and there are women,” she added.

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The human rights fighter and representative of the trans community in the country, Yren Rotela, described what Fernández said as “embarrassing”; and she stressed: “No one is interested in anyone’s private life. It places transvestites as objects, since we are people with rights.”

And she continued: “It is extremely serious, it continues to place, perhaps in another vocabulary, that we are the problem, they do not place us as victims.”

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In statements reported by the local newspaper ABC, Rotela indicated that they frequently have to listen to these types of comments, and many times they remain silent out of fear. However, he warned that when they touch on issues related to childhood “it is dangerous.”

“It’s shameful, it’s hate speech. It made me very sad. I do not play the victim but today I am an empowered person and I am not going to let them step on my rights,” she concluded.

A few days ago, the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of Paraguay, Carlos Giménez, was involved in a controversy following he asked to prohibit the admission of homosexual students in the country’s agricultural schools with a boarding regime, expressions that, according to the Presidency, were not “They represent the Government’s line of action.”

Giménez formulated the statements during a visit to an agricultural school in the locality of Santa Rosa del Aguaray (located regarding 250 kilometers from Asunción), in the department of San Pedro (north).

The head of Agriculture can be heard saying that he does not want “a single one” with homosexual tendencies in the school, which was responded to by applause from the attendees.

“He who is a man, is a man; He who is a woman, he is a woman, but he who is lost, he who does not know where he is, that is not allowed in any agricultural school,” he added.

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The Presidency clarified in its account on the social network concepts of equality and non-discrimination embodied in our National Constitution.”

Asked regarding this, the Government spokesperson, Paula Carro, told ABC Cardinal radio that the country’s Presidency has considered that these statements “were misguided.”

Carro confirmed that the expressions “do not represent in any way the lines of action of the Government of Paraguay, whose main goal in the promotion of public policies” is the Constitution, which “establishes absolute equality in rights and dignity among all the inhabitants” of the country.

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