Between 2025 and June 2026, Guanajuato's Civil Registry completed 215 administrative rectifications of birth certificates for gender identity recognition, an average of 11 applications per month, according to data from the General Directorate of the Civil Registry cited by Milenio. Five of those cases correspond to people who declared themselves non-binary.
On December 27, 2024, the state Congress reformed the Civil Code to recognize gender identity through a direct administrative procedure at the Civil Registry, with no need for court proceedings. All rectifications were resolved without an amparo injunction. In parallel, since June 2026 the INE voter ID has included a self-perceived gender identity field, with the option NB for non-binary people, according to El Sol de León. Guanajuato thus aligns with most states: only Querétaro, Chiapas, Tabasco, Tamaulipas and Durango do not yet offer this administrative route. The figure matters beyond the state: gender identity rectification in Mexico is migrating from the courts to civil registries, and the administrative route is already the dominant mechanism in most states.
The breakdown from the General Directorate of the Civil Registry adds up to 115 rectifications from male to female, 95 from female to male, three from male to non-binary and two from female to non-binary, according to Milenio, a figure that Telediario replicated this Monday. Joshua Judith Ramírez Arredondo, 21, was born on July 8, 2004, in the Obregón neighborhood of León and in 2025 became the city's first non-binary person to obtain all their official documents through this route, according to Milenio.
The next step in the state is to consolidate the reform's application in service delivery: local deputy Eugenia García Oliveros announced she will bring the training of Civil Registry staff to the floor of the state Congress, according to El Sol de León. The administrative route, already reflected in the INE voter ID with the NB option, looks set to consolidate as the state's standard mechanism.
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