Mexican politician convicted for reference to ‘man who self-describes as a woman’
August 10, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: A Mexican court has upheld the conviction of a former legislator for “political violence,” because he referred to an opponent as “a man who self-describes as a woman.”
Rodrigo Ivan Cortes was ordered to apologize online for his Twitter comments saying that a current lawmaker, Slam Luevano, is a man. The comments came after Luevano introduced a proposal to classify Christian teachings on sexuality as “hate speech.”
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