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Judicial decisions on population

LGBTIQ+ in Colombia

This repository compiles judicial decisions in Colombia that recognise the rights of LGBTIQ+ people. It is a commitment of Colombia Diversa to achieve new and innovative ways of disseminating the extensive legal framework that exists in the country in an effort to guarantee the rights of LGBTIQ+ people so that more researchers, justice operators and civil society can easily access this data, use it for their advocacy work, formulate public policies and demand respect for their rights.

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The FIRST MODULE contains all the filters that can be viewed in the second and third modules. Choose the instance where the decision was made, the issue it deals with, the department of Colombia where it was made, and whether it is a decision that concerns sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex, or other differential approaches.

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The second module contains the possible visualisation views with the information and filters selected in the first module. You can choose the map view of Colombia (to see the geographical distribution of the decisions), line graph (to see the change over time of the decisions), bar graph (to see in which instances the decisions were taken), and table (to see the complete record of information that feeds the visualisations).

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In addition, in this module it is possible to click on any data in the graph to obtain a detailed view of the decisions being visualised.

To obtain the graphs in downloadable formats, it is possible to click on "Download" and receive them in JPEG, PNG, PDF and HTML format, as well as the table format can be downloaded in XLSX, CSV and JSON.

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The THIRD MODULE of the tool will always contain a word cloud graph, which counts the 50 most used terms in the description of the court decisions filtered in the first module (the larger the word, the more times it is repeated); and a tree diagram with the proportion of issues addressed in the court decisions filtered in the first module.

Data glossary
Sex assigned at birth

Category based on physical characteristics of individuals (e.g. reproductive system, genes, hormones), assigned at birth. Historically it has been divided into male and female.

Socially constructed identities, roles and attributes for women and men, as well as the cultural meaning attributed to these biological differences.

Inner and individual experience of femininity or masculinity as each person feels it. It may or may not correspond to the sex or gender assigned at birth.

  • Cisgender personGender identity: Their gender identity corresponds to the sex and gender assigned at birth.

  • Trans personGender: Their experience of sex/gender does not correspond to the sex/gender assigned at birth.

  • Trans manAssigned female sex at birth, but identifies as male.

  • Trans womanMale: Assigned male sex at birth, but identifies as female.

  • Non-binary peopleThey do not identify with binary gender roles (male/female).

The way in which gender identity is manifested through aspects socially associated with masculinity or femininity (clothing, behaviour, accessories, etc.).

Ability to feel erotic, emotional and affective attraction to other people.

  • Heterosexual personsThey are attracted to people of a different sex/gender.

  • Homosexual personsSame-sex/gender attraction (includes lesbians and gays).

  • Bisexual and pansexual peopleThey are attracted to more than one sex or gender.

A concept derived from Gayle Rubin and Judith Butler that explains how society creates hierarchies between men, women and people with non-normative sexual identities and orientations. This system produces political, economic and social inequalities, and perceives non-normative people as "abnormal" to be corrected or sanctioned.

Aggressions against individuals or groups because of their sex or gender. Includes physical, sexual, psychological, verbal or economic harm, in public or private spaces.

Aggressions or acts of discrimination motivated by the transgression of cisgender or heterosexual norms. It is exercised in a hierarchical or exclusionary manner, to reaffirm inferiority or symbolically eliminate the "other".