Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual
| National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) |
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| purpose | Cultural institution |
| Chair: | Mariela Castro |
| Establishment date: | 1989 |
| Seat : | Calle 10 # 460 esq. 21, Vedado, Plaza de la Revolución , Havana , Cuba |
| Website: | http://www.cenesexualidad.sld.cu/ |
The Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual ( CENESEX ; Spanish for National Center for Sexual Education ) is a government-sponsored facility in Cuba . The center is well known for teaching tolerance to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues on the island. The director of this center, Mariela Castro , is the daughter of the Cuban head of state Raúl Castro , the brother of Fidel Castro .
The center
The aim and task of CENESEX is to cooperate in “the development of the culture of human sexuality as perfect, pleasant and responsible, as well as the promotion of all sexual rights.” CENESEX plays a decisive role in the education regarding contraception and AIDS . The center emerged in 1989 from the National Working Group for Sex Education (GNTES) founded in 1977 at the Standing Commission of the National Assembly for the Care of Children, Young People and for Equal Rights for Women , which was headed by the German Monika Krause on behalf of Vilma Espín , who President of the national women's association FMC , wife of Raúl Castro and mother of the current CENESEX director, who has been in office since 2000. Monika Krause led the working group and then the center until 1990 when she left Cuba and returned to Germany. The main focus of the work of the GNTES was basic sex education , especially on contraception in view of the very high proportion of teenage pregnancies . From 1979 onwards, GNTES distributed six Spanish translations of East German educational books and also broadcast numerous contributions on general sex education on radio and television. Since the 1990s, the focus of CENESEX's work has shifted to the social acceptance of sexual diversity .
Free sex reassignment
CENESEX was a strong supporter of a law that would allow transsexuals to get free sex reassignment surgery and hormone replacement therapy . In addition, they should be issued with personal documents according to their new gender.
A first legislative proposal was submitted to the Cuban Parliament in 2005 . It aims to make Cuba the most liberal nation in Latin America in gender matters. In June 2008 the law was passed by parliament.
Web links
- Official Website (Spanish)
- Ileana Medina and Manuel Zayas: En el Punto G de la Revolución , detailed interview with Monika Krause-Fuchs (founding director of CENESEX) in: Diario de Cuba from February 24, 2012, accessed on February 26, 2012 (Spanish)
literature
- Monika Krause-Fuchs : Machismo is far from dead! Cuba: Sexuality in Transition ; Projekt-Verlag Cornelius (2008); ISBN 978-3-86634-469-3
- Monika Krause-Fuchs : “Para mí una virgen es como un carro nuevo”. Reflexions sobre la Sexualidad en Cuba (PDF; 665 kB) In: Género, feminismo y masculinidad en América Latina ; ed. v. Silke Helfrich; Ediciones Boll (2001); ISBN 99923-35-01-7 ; Pp. 181-204
- Lois M. Smith and Alfred Padula: Sex and Revolution. Women in Socialist Cuba ; Oxford University Press (1996); ISBN 978-0195094909
- Lois M. Smith: Teenage Pregnancy and Sex Education in Cuba (PDF; 1.7 MB); Conference paper (1988)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monika Krause-Fuchs website , accessed on May 14, 2011.
- ^ Israel, Esteban, "Castro's niece fights for new revolution" ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Reuters , July 3, 2006
- ↑ Cuba approves sex change operations . Reuters. June 6, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
- ↑ HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved . Inter Press Service. June 6, 2008. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
