Cuban National Center for Sex Education

The National Center for Sex Education (Spanish: Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual, CENESEX) is a government-funded body founded in 1989 in Cuba. The center is best known for advocating tolerance of LGBT issues on the island. CENESEX stresses acceptance of sexual diversity and has attracted international attention in recent years for its campaigns for the rights of transgender persons, including the recognition of an individual’s gender identity, regardless of birth sex, and provision of state-funded sexual reassignment surgery.^[1] The head of the center is Mariela Castro, daughter of the Cuban politician and former president of the Federation of Cuban Women, Vilma Espín, and the former Cuban leader Raúl Castro (himself brother of longtime former leader Fidel Castro).