“Aquí puedo ser yo”: adolescencia migrante LGBT+ y sus procesos de transición en México

This paper explores how unaccompanied LGBT+ migrant children in the context of mobility live their processes of gender transition and/or discovery of their sexual orientation. Based on in-depth interviews with four young people who migrated to Mexico as adolescents, their experiences are reconstructed, evidencing the violence and discrimination suffered in their countries of origin as a result of their sexogenic dissidence. This forces them to migrate in order to live their sexual expressions and orientations, where migration becomes a survival strategy in the face of hostile contexts towards sexual and gender diversity. This text explores LGBT+ child migration, a facet little studied in Mexico, making visible that it is not homogeneous but rather composed of a diverse population, highlighting the need to recognize the specific realities of children in their migration processes.