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| Region | Mendoza |
| Issue | Censorship of LGBT issues |
| Status | Imprisonment as punishment |
| Start Date | Nov 25, 1965 |
| End Date | Oct 10, 2006 |
| Description | In 1965, Mendoza implemented Article 80 in its Code of Misdemeanours which criminalised people who in their daily lives "dress and pass themselves off as a person of the opposite sex" with 15 days imprisonment or a fine, criminalising transgender expression. This law would be repealed in 2006. |
| Sources | https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/lib-docs/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session1/AR/CHA_ARG_UPR_S1_2008_ComunidadHomosexualArgentina_uprsubmission_S.pdf https://www.saij.gob.ar/legislacion/ley-mendoza-3365-codigo_faltas_provincia_mendoza.htm%3Bjsessionid=zh7kc0dh16spqbfhtctab09y?0 |
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| Status | Imprisonment as punishment |
| Start Date | Nov 25, 1965 |
| End Date | Oct 10, 2006 |
| Description | In 1965, Mendoza implemented Article 80 in its Code of Misdemeanours which criminalised people who in their daily lives "dress and pass themselves off as a person of the opposite sex" with 15 days imprisonment or a fine, criminalising transgender expression. This law would be repealed in 2006. |
| Sources | https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/lib-docs/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session1/AR/CHA_ARG_UPR_S1_2008_ComunidadHomosexualArgentina_uprsubmission_S.pdf https://www.saij.gob.ar/legislacion/ley-mendoza-3365-codigo_faltas_provincia_mendoza.htm%3Bjsessionid=zh7kc0dh16spqbfhtctab09y?0 |