:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/JIPDWDD3JZBTFKKTYZ2FQEUA2Y.jpg "Who is Rebeca Garza, the only trans woman who aspires to become an INE adviser?")
On the afternoon of March 7, candidates for a position in the General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) attended the House of Representatives They came to present an examination which is part of the second phase of selection.
The technical evaluation committee pointed out that in total 531 people were called to present the test including 164 identified as female, 358 male, 5 non-binary, 3 gender unspecified and one as transgender woman
Luisa Rebeca Garza Lopez is the name of the only trans woman aspiring to be an INE adviser, who is a election official with 20 years of experience with a specialty in integration of polling station signs, promotion of there civic education and some democratic culture con gender perspective.
The applicant pointed out that its participation in the process of selecting the members of the General Council of the INE is a advancement of the trans community and expressed his wish that his case would not be a “unique case”, during a brief meeting with the media.
“Very happy because it is also very important for trans populations that we can normalize our presence in these political spaces, that it is not extraordinary, that it is not an event that occurs suddenly”
Regarding her performance on the exam, Garza assured that she was “very confident with the work that has been done and very confident with the work that the technical evaluation committee will do”.
The test she and more than 500 other people have taken aims to assess their Knowledge of constitutional, governmental, electoral and human rights issues.
Garza has 19 years of experience in Electoral Professional Service and participated in 6 federal election processes (2001-2017), 5 extraordinary elections in Oaxaca (2017-2018), integration of tables for Oaxaca votes abroad (2018) and in the simultaneous election of Oaxaca (2018).
His work was recognized in 2018 by a honorable mention at the Extraordinary Merit Prize, awarded by the INE.
“In addition to fulfilling the institutional obligations entrusted to him in the federal electoral process in the State, he has carried out multiple activities aimed at promoting and guaranteeing respect for the human rights of traditionally discriminated groups, in particular trans people”
At INE, it has also been developed as internal advisor in the creation of the protocol to guarantee trans people the free exercise of their right to vote which began to be implemented at the national level from 2018 and within the framework of the review team of the “Protocol to guarantee the right to non-discrimination based on the gender identity and expression of persons who work at the INE”.
Also noteworthy in his work experience is the position he held in the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Women (Inmujeres).
Alongside her professional work, Rebeca Garza has developed as a activist and writer. Is founding member of QuereTrans, SC forks author of the book Trans*: between the personal and the political.
He could occupy one of the four places that will remain available on the General Council of the INE in April, the month in which he will leave his post. Lorenzo Cordobapresident adviser and three other people: Ciro Murayama Rendón, Adriana Margarita Favela Herrera and José Roberto Ruiz Saldaña.
The bone The results of the evaluation will be announced on March 8 by the evaluation committee, who announced that of the total number of people summoned to take the test, 508 presented it and 23 did not present themselves to the Chamber of Deputies. On March 10, the committee will meet publicly to follow up on the selection process.