Importance of Sexual Identity

When rights become more and more complex.- Sexual identity and all the issues that arise around it are topics of recent discussion in most societies, although their existence dates from ancient times. immemorial.

When we talk about sexual identity we are pointing out all those elements (both biological and mental) that determine our sexuality, as well as our orientation and tastes, desires and that are part of the total set of our identity as unique and unrepeatable human beings. The importance of openly acknowledging sexual identity as a right It has to do directly with the progress and modernization that some societies show to stop hiding or prohibit rights to certain people under the supposed idea that there are only two unique forms of sexual identity.

Sexual identity as a notion opposed to the heternormative tradition

While historically, in most of the large and small societies of the world, sexuality was only officially conceived from the point of view of traditional and heteronormative view (which implies the only existence of two sexes or genders: masculine and feminine, man and woman) in the In recent decades, many societies have made great progress in the debate and discussion about whether this is true or whether this idea is arbitrary and artificial.

Reality shows that societies are much more complex than that and so slowly spaces of recognition of all the alternatives that can be made to the sexual identity of a person and that are, at present, almost infinite as there are people This means that unlike what some sectors maintained, giving rise to these alternative sexual identities (gays, lesbians, transsexuals, bisexuals and many more) influenced the quality of life of those who until now had to remain hidden or even believed to be what they they really weren't.

Changes and transformations are seen in practice

However, the importance of debating sexual identity also has to do with changing lifestyles in practice and that is why it begins slowly to legislate in some countries on the civil rights of these people so that they can be treated before the State as any other.

Laws like those of marriage egalitarian or of adoption of children are the ones that really influence the recognition that these people exist and that sexual identity must be freely recognized, respected and sustained without fear or social paralysis of the consequences it may bring.

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