Conservative groups in Jalisco are up in arms over the substitution on online birth certificates of gender neutral terms for “mother” and “father” –
changes made ostensibly to streamline the filing process but which also may reflect a new cultural landscape in which there are multiple ways of defining the “parental unit.”
One group who wished to voice their disapproval of the bureaucratically motivated neuter was the Jalisco National Front for the Family. The organization’s president, Jaime Cedillo, considers it a direct assault upon the “traditional family”.
“Respect for the institution [of family] is important, as is the right of people to use the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’, not as an option but rather as something merely natural,” said Cedillo.