🔔 DERECHOS 📜 SEXUALES y REPRODUCTIVOS de adolescentes de jóvenes y niños en México y el mundo 🔔

Sexual Rights of Young People and Adolescents

Key Concepts: Sexual rights, adolescent rights, right to bodily autonomy, right to sexual expression, right to privacy, right to freedom from violence, reproductive rights, right to equality, right to non-discrimination, sexual education, sexual health services, sexual identity, participation in public policy.

1. Right to Decide About Our Body and Our Sexuality

• Adolescents have the right to make informed and free decisions about their bodies as they grow, including exercising, modifying, and taking care of their bodies.
• Decisions must be free from pressure.

2. Right to Fully Exercise and Enjoy Sexuality

• Individuals can choose how, where, when, and with whom to exercise their sexuality responsibly and without pressure.
• No one should be made to feel bad or punished for exploring their body.

3. Right to Publicly Express Affections

• Individuals have the right to express their sexual or gender identity without facing discrimination or violence.
• Public manifestation of preferences is protected.

4. Right to Freely Decide with Whom to Relate

• Individuals can freely decide with whom to share their life, desires, and dreams, and with whom to experience pleasures and emotions related to sexuality.
• This must be done autonomously, without pressure or violence.

5. Right to Respect for Intimacy and Privacy

• Personal data should be protected in family, school, digital, work, and health service settings.
• Information should never be exposed.

6. Right to Physical, Psychological, and Sexual Integrity and Freedom from Violence

• Individuals should not be subjected to cruel, degrading, or violent treatment by family, authority, or any person.
• Such treatment constitutes a crime.

7. Right to Decide Freely and Informed About Our Reproductive Life

• Individuals can decide whether or not to have children, how many children to have, and when to have them.
• Choice of partner is free from gender, health, marital status, race, or color restrictions.

8. Right to Equality

• All individuals have the same rights before the law and can live free of stereotypes or gender.
• Discrimination based on sexual preferences or gender identity is prohibited.

9. Right to Live Free from Discrimination

• Individuals have the right to live free from discrimination based on age, ethnicity, nationality, color, or disability.
• No one can be discriminated against, bothered, or attacked for these reasons.

10. Right to Updated Information and Secular Sexual Education

• Individuals have the right to complete, scientific, and secular sexual education, covering gender, eroticism, affective bonds, and reproduction.
• Information must be free of stereotypes, prejudices, myths, or guilt, and based on scientific research.
• The church or any religion should not get involved.
• The video references another video explaining the four potentialities (gender, eroticism, affective bonds, and reproduction).

11. Right to Comprehensive and Sexual Education

• Decision-making must be encouraged and be free and informed.
• Necessary for physical, mental and social well-being.
• Content must be secular and based on scientific research.

12. Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

• Health services must be friendly, reliable, of good quality, and free.
• Services must be timely and culturally relevant.
• Services should not be denied due to the lack of a parent or guardian, or based on cultural background, race, or origin.
• Denying these services may constitute a crime.

13. Right to Sexual Identity

• Individuals have the right to construct, decide, and express their gender identity, sexual orientation, and political identity.
• Discrimination based on these identities is prohibited.

14. Right to Participation in Public Policies on Sexuality and Reproduction

• Individuals have the right to influence any law, initiative, or public plan and program that involves sexual and reproductive rights.
• They can also verify and analyze the budgets for these programs.

Synthesis/Conclusion

The video comprehensively outlines the 14 sexual rights of young people and adolescents, emphasizing the importance of informed decision-making, freedom from discrimination and violence, access to comprehensive sexual education and healthcare, and the right to participate in shaping public policies related to sexuality and reproduction. The rights cover a wide range of aspects, from bodily autonomy and sexual expression to privacy, equality, and access to services, all aimed at ensuring the physical, mental, and social well-being of young individuals.