00:00My name is Juan Pablo Otero Salazar, I have 18 years old.
00:03I'm a pretty anxious kid.
00:05I like to do sports,
00:07I like literature, I like philosophy,
00:10I like to read about Latin American topics.
00:33In that time, the Consejo of Bogotá
00:36had a norma of the city that allowed students
00:39from public and private schools to go to the corporation
00:43and present with a council council a agreement.
00:47And, among other dynamics,
00:50to make social control and other things.
00:51In that context, with several colleagues in the beginning,
00:55we said that there are colleges
00:57that, according to the Constitutional Court,
01:01in a number of sentences of tutelas,
01:03where they violate the fundamental rights
01:04to the free development of personality.
01:06But when we were elaborating the agreement
01:08that we completely wrote,
01:12we reached the part where it is
01:15the legal analysis of the initiative.
01:18And then, with the jurisprudence,
01:20we covered with the sentence of Sergio Urrego.
01:22A raíz of the sentence of Sergio Urrego
01:24that one of the rights that
01:26we talked about,
01:27although it is the free development of personality,
01:30we also talked about the issue of
01:32the sexual orientation and gender identity
01:33at the interior of the colleges
01:35and how problematic it is.
01:37And, with our colleagues,
01:39we say that the sentence of Sergio,
01:42the reading of the sentence of Sergio,
01:43and also, what was the press,
01:48what was the case of Sergio Urrego,
01:51what was the case of Sergio Urrego,
01:52what was the case of Sergio Urrego,
01:52what was the case of Sergio Urrego.
01:53So, we said that this project
01:55we can't leave it here,
01:57we are facing a problematica tenaz
01:58that is not exclusively to use aretes,
02:01but that is a culture homophobic,
02:04that is a culture transfobic
02:05that, in a way,
02:08we can accept that in the schools
02:10we can develop
02:12the personal personality,
02:13but that we are going to be short
02:16knowing that there are people
02:17who are suicidal,
02:18like Sergio,
02:19there are people who are killed,
02:21like the 159 people who are killed
02:23in the last year
02:24for the simple fact of having
02:25an orientation sexual
02:26or a gender diverse identity.
02:28We wrote the project
02:29in a beginning,
02:31we told them to help us
02:33with the firm,
02:34but they did not have
02:36the initiative,
02:39the political willingness
02:40to help us,
02:41but it was like
02:41to get out of the steps,
02:42so that,
02:43at the beginning,
02:45with the authors of the project,
02:46with the same ones,
02:47but the others
02:48who were not even authors,
02:50among other things,
02:51they did not want to
02:51debate the project
02:52and that allowed us,
02:53for example,
02:54to, among other things,
02:55to send the rights of the petition
02:56and they passed 15 days
02:58and they were not
02:58asking the rights of the petition
03:00to plan
03:00and we were saying
03:02to them,
03:02to my colleagues,
03:03I told them,
03:03we will have to put a tutel,
03:05we will need to have
03:06a tutel,
03:07to the then president
03:07of the government
03:08so that he responded
03:10to the rights of the petition,
03:11I did the title
03:12and that is
03:14when one is
03:16fighting with the one
03:16and one is
03:16and one is
03:17that the government
03:17and one is
03:19the president
03:19I remember that the President of the Government of the Commission
03:22received the tutel and surely not believed it,
03:24because if the judge said 48 hours
03:27to respond to the tutel a partir of the fall,
03:29a partir of the notification,
03:30it was about five days and no had responded to the tutel.
03:33So, there came a moment in which I said,
03:35no, incident of disaster,
03:36and then, like 10 minutes,
03:38there comes a message to answer.
03:41So, yes, I took to answer the incident of disaster,
03:44but then, like 10 minutes,
03:45and the response is extremely hostile,
03:47it was a response that, even though,
03:49it didn't respond to the right of the petition as well,
03:52but it was answered by arguments,
03:55by the tangential.
03:57Sergio was the person who marked
03:59a before and after in my life.
04:00It is to say, his memory,
04:02the causes he had,
04:03because he was a rebel man,
04:04but also a lector,
04:05because I think the first requisition
04:06to be rebel is to be a lector.
04:08And he,
04:09the context in which he lived,
04:11was hostile,
04:13hostile to his sexuality,
04:14and,
04:16lamentablemente,
04:16it led to the decision
04:18to suicide.
04:19But,
04:19because of the legality
04:21that he gave,
04:23the letters that he gave,
04:24the testimonial,
04:25that he gave,
04:27that he said,
04:27hey,
04:28I dream of a country
04:30where we all,
04:31and all,
04:32and all,
04:33we can live in peace.
04:34Yeah?
04:35Where I can get out of the hand
04:36with my partner in the street
04:37and not be able to kill me,
04:38like,
04:39once I happened.
04:40That's key.
04:41That's for me,
04:41Sergio Urrego,
04:42a person that
04:43gave one of the greats
04:45legals.
04:45The whole project
04:46is respectful of the
04:47legal system,
04:48that's something
04:49that we have to say.
04:50It's a project that
04:51has technical,
04:53economic,
04:53and juridical,
04:55and it's very respectful
04:56in that sense.
04:57And in the framework
04:57of the school's autonomy
04:59of each institution,
05:00it will accompany
05:01to actualize
05:02their evaluation
05:03so that they can be
05:04in function
05:05of the constitutional mandats.
05:07One of those
05:07is the free
05:07development.
05:09A second element
05:11is the
05:12co-responsibility
05:13between the school
05:14and the family
05:15because it's key.
05:16A lot of times,
05:17the family is the
05:18main environment
05:19where they create
05:20the prejudices,
05:21but, also,
05:21they reinforce themselves.
05:22They can be able to
05:23accompany the families
05:23and they can be able
05:24to be able to
05:24to expand their competencies
05:27in terms of the rights
05:28of the children,
05:28and adolescents.
05:29Another example,
05:31is that,
05:32in a pedagogical sense,
05:35that they can be able
05:35to orient the children
05:36and the girls,
05:37so that they can be able
05:38to manage all the
05:40issues of respect
05:40to the diversities.
05:42That's key.
05:42But always in the
05:43understanding of respect.
05:44For example,
05:45groups of support,
05:46so that the children
05:47who are discriminated
05:48by their identity
05:49or sexuality
05:50can have that support.
05:52And in that same way,
05:54also,
05:54they can be able
05:54to be able to
05:55to ensure
05:56the attention
05:58for those people
06:00who have been discriminated
06:01or who have been discriminated
06:03by their orientation
06:04sexual
06:04or by their identity
06:05of gender.
06:06So,
06:06my dream is
06:07a country,
06:09a Colombia,
06:10where they don't
06:11continue to kill
06:11those 159 people
06:13LGBTI per year.
06:14Where they can go,
06:15give them a kiss
06:16on the street,
06:17where they can go
06:18to a restaurant
06:19where they can go
06:20to something else,
06:21and they can go
06:21to the restaurant.
06:23And they're real.
06:24We're in a complex world,
06:28in a difficult world,
06:29but in a world
06:30in a world that
06:30may be worth living.
06:31This is an
06:32Aprendizaje
06:33for the Consejo of Bogotá,
06:34sin lugar a dudas,
06:34so that they don't
06:35continue to instrumentalize
06:36the students.
06:38A message to the politicians
06:40in that sense,
06:41so that they don't
06:42continue to fill out
06:42of arguments,
06:43to negate the rights of
06:45the diversity,
06:46because it's that,
06:47to negate the rights.
06:48A message also
06:49to my colleagues
06:50because
06:51this agreement
06:52is a triumph
06:53of the student movement
06:53and the second movement
06:55to where we have reached.
06:56So,
06:57it's a triumph
06:58because I'm convinced
06:59of the people
07:01that we will be
07:03going to be
07:03the people
07:05who will be
07:05who will be
07:06who will be
07:06and will be
07:07able to admit
07:07norms
07:08that are in concordance
07:09with the rights of the people.
07:11And if we do not
07:12to get to the curules,
07:13we will have a social
07:15robust movement
07:16which is what
07:17fundamental,
07:17that's beyond
07:18to have a corporate
07:20group,
07:21that is to have
07:21a social robust movement
07:23that is conscious
07:23of their rights.
07:24A children and adults LGBTIQ+, a big hug.
08:23A children and adults LGBTIQ+, a big hug.
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