LGBTQ ‘human rights crisis is unfolding in Puerto Rico’

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LGBTQ 'human rights crisis is unfolding in Puerto Rico'

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/07/21/lgbtq-human-rights-crisis-is-unfolding-in-puerto-rico/ 🔗

Michael K. Lavers (21 July 2026)

An activist from Puerto Rico who spoke at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus briefing last week in D.C. said anti-LGBTQ laws and policies have left the LGBTQ community in the U.S. commonwealth even more vulnerable.

"A human rights crisis is unfolding in Puerto Rico — one that disproportionately affects LGBT+ people, particularly transgender and nonbinary Puerto Ricans," said True Self Foundation Executive Director Miguel Vázquez-Rivera.

Vázquez-Rivera during the briefing highlighted several anti-LGBTQ laws and policies that have been implemented since Gov. Jenniffer González took office in January 2025. These include Law 63-2025, which prohibits gender-affirming healthcare for anyone under 21, and Law 26-2026, which prohibits the University of Puerto Rico and other "government facilities" from installing "mixed or gender-neutral multi-occupancy restrooms."

González, a Republican who is a member of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, was Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in the U.S. House of Representatives before she became governor. González supports President Donald Trump.

Vázquez-Rivera during the briefing highlighted anti-LGBTQ measures that have been introduced in the Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly. These include House Bill 164, which would prohibit transgender athletes from school sports teams that correspond with their gender identity, and House Bill 131, which would allow faith-based adoption agencies to deny services to same-sex couples.

"The overwhelming scientific evidence is clear: children raised by same-sex parents do just as well as those raised by different-sex parents," said Vázquez-Rivera. "What matters is not the gender or the sexual orientation of the parents; but the presence of love, stability, and support."

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"The overwhelming scientific evidence is clear: children raised by same-sex parents do just as well as those raised by different-sex parents," said Vázquez-Rivera. "What matters is not the gender or the sexual orientation of the parents; but the presence of love, stability, and support."

This is the most important thing that people need to learn.

Gender identity and sexual preference cannot be taught or programmed into children. The establishment believes it is an "ideology" rather than a biological reality.

Having queer parents does not make one queer. What it does, and this is what they find distasteful, is that having queer parents helps a child realize that they are wrong, that there is nothing weird about it, and that people are just people.

The anti-LGBTQ movement can't have people waking up to that fact. They can't have people being open and accepting of one another because if they did, they would not be able to sow dissent, and their platform would collapse.