In the same session, Congress legislated to ban Efforts to Correct Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (Ecosig), also known as “conversion therapies.”
Mexico City, December 4 (However).- The Congress of Guanajuato approved this Thursday, with 25 votes in favor and nine against, a reform to the Civil Code local so that the homosexual couples can get married, as well as Penal Code to classify the crimes against the expressionthe gender identity and the sexual orientation. The victory was celebrated by groups from the LGBT+ community.
“With these modifications, it is specified that marriage is the free union of two people, the purpose of which is to create a community of life, in which the spouses seek respect, equality and mutual help. In addition, the regulations relating to husband and wife as spouses are adjusted in the body of regulations,” explained the local Congress in a statement.
Six PAN members voted in favor of the reform, eight voted against and legislator Angélica Casillas abstained from voting.
#PlenarySession 🏛️ | They approve the reforms to the Civil Code for the State of Guanajuato, regarding marriage. pic.twitter.com/cvQXH1Muku
— Congress of the State of Guanajuato (@CongresoGto) December 4, 2025
When speaking, Representative María Eugenia García Olivares stated that the ruling entails standardizing local regulations with the interpretation of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) and with the criteria of international conventionality, by expanding the opportunities for happiness for human beings with the replacement of the term man and woman with people.
He added that for years a sector of society has lived under the shadow of humiliation, rights ignored, dignity defended, identity denied and freedom repressed, as their way of loving and the way in which they formed a family were invalidated, in addition to the rights achieved being a recognition of the bravery of groups and people of sexual and gender diversity.
Although it was not legislated, from December 20, 2021 to date, the Civil Registry was able to marry 1,028 same-sex couples, without the need to process an amparo, thanks to provision 226/2021 published by the then Secretary of Government and now Governor, Libia García Muñoz Ledo.
In the same session, the deputies reformed the Penal Code to classify crimes against gender expression or identity and sexual orientation.
Regarding the prohibition of Efforts to Correct Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (Ecosig), also called “conversion therapies”, the approved provisions state that efforts to correct sexual orientation or gender identity or expression are understood as those practices in which physical, moral or psycho-emotional violence is used and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment that violates human dignity, consisting of psychological, psychiatric, medical sessions or any method. or treatment, which have the objective of nullifying or impairing the expression or gender identity or sexual orientation of the victim.
Likewise, it is indicated that when the person who does so is the father, mother or guardian of the victim, the penalty will be 20 to 60 days, a fine and comprehensive psychotherapeutic treatment for the time determined by the Judge.
#PlenarySession 🏛️ | They endorse reforms for the prevention and punishment of Efforts to Correct Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. pic.twitter.com/IEb8T4rliH
— Congress of the State of Guanajuato (@CongresoGto) December 4, 2025
Meanwhile, the Congress of Guanajuato – in the presence of anti-abortion people – shelved the three reform initiatives to the Penal Code regarding the decriminalization of abortion; another to reform the Political Constitution for the State in order to repeal the regulatory provision that establishes that a person is every human being from conception to natural death and one more that proposed changes to the Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence to include the concept of reproductive autonomy.
As the author of the opinion, the Morena Representative María Eugenia García Oliveros expressed that the criminal offense that absolutely criminalizes the interruption of pregnancy in Guanajuato is unconstitutional and therefore there is an obligation to adapt the legislation to the constitutional and conventional standards on the matter.
He added that the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation issued that several articles of the state Penal Code are unconstitutional for violating the rights of women and people with the capacity to gestate to decide and are part of a system that absolutely criminalizes access to a voluntary abortion.
With 19 votes in favor, the Guanajuato Congress again refused to vote in favor of the decriminalization of abortion.
It’s going to be up to the @SCJN decriminalize in this state, it will be law 💚✨ pic.twitter.com/HjJSmBt2z3
— Ninde MolRe 💚 (@NindeMolRe) December 4, 2025