10 January
2011
A Mexico
City lesbian, married under the city's same-sex marriage law, has won the right
to insure her wife in the national health-care system.
In 2010, a judge had ordered that Lol Kin Castañeda could register Judith
Vázquez as her wife with the Mexican Institute of Social Security, the national
health-care system.
The Secretariat of Labor and Social Security appealed the order several weeks
ago, then reversed course this month and dropped the appeal.
The agency said its final determination in the matter also applies to other
same-sex couples married in Mexico City, the only place in the nation where
same-sex marriage has been legalized.
Gay couples married in Mexico City also are supposed to be recognized as
married by all of Mexico's 31 states, in accord with a 2010 federal Supreme
Court ruling, though the decision remains untested in most locations.