Guatemalan deputy seeks “children’s protection” against gender ideology in schools

The Guatemalan deputy Ronald Portillo shares his concern about the progress of gender ideology in his country and ensures that he and his opposition partners seek “the protection of our children.”

In an interview with Ewtn News, the legislator explained that his work is to deal with “laws related to the issue of gender ideology and we have sought to generate political control over these indoctrination that are made often in minors.”

“We are very concerned as legislators and seek the protection of our children and adolescents from schools so that they are not indoctrine and not simply this type of policies by this administration,” he said.

Gender ideology is a current that considers that biological sex is not decisive for the person, but that it can define their sexual orientation according to their preferences and even against their nature, something that different governments try to impose through education.

The deputy indicated that his work is “mainly to comply with the life and family policy that is already in force in the country”, considering that “this government is widely known for having a progressive cut or line.”

“We as opposition legislators are ensuring that the principles and values ​​established in that policy are complied with and that also take part in the Political Constitution of the Republic of Guatemala,” he added.

This, he said, refers to “the protection of life, the protection of the family or the institutionalization of family and freedom, in all its manifestations, but in this case religious freedom.”

The legislator stressed in this regard that the Guatemala Congress recently approved the Bible Day, approved this 2025 to be held on the first Saturday of August, with which “the vast majority of Christians living in Guatemala and that recognizes in this book as with its historical and cultural value that forms the roots of Guatemala” is recognized.

In the interview with Ewtn News, Portillo referred to these and other issues discussed in the “Meeting for Religious Freedom, Life and Family”, which brings together politicians and legislators from different parts of the world, September 24 and 25 in Guatemala, organized by the Parliamentary Front for Religious Freedom – which brings together more than 30 legislators -, the association the family imports (AFI) and Political Values ​​(PNFV).

Among the exhibitors of the meeting are Valerie Huber, which was part of the Trump Pence administration in 2020 and was the driver of the Geneva consensus – in the defense of the child to be born – and also of the Protective Initiative on the fertility of women “separated from the debate on contraceptive methods or abortion, thus giving a differentiated vision to the protection and social assistance that these women are often needed Abandonment, ”said Portillo.

Another exhibitor is Rodrigo Iván Cortés, vice president of the PNFV, who faced a process in Mexico in 20232, for calling a trans congressman, and was censored for “issuing dissident opinions against the LGTBIQ agenda and also of gender ideology”.

Marcelo Bartolini, director of the Article 18 Association and researcher at the Advanced Social Research Center in Mexico, is another of the speakers with Fernando Sánchez Campos, rector of the Catholic University of Costa Rica, “which has also exposed about the importance of religious freedom and the secular state”.

The deputy finally stated that one of the objectives of the meeting is “to generate instruments, both as public policies or legislative initiatives that may reinforce or reinforce, for example, the values ​​and principles of Guatemalans” and other countries in the region.