It was passed by the Argentine Senate on 24 June 2021, and enacted on 8 July 2021, during the government of Alberto Fernández.
[1][2] The Diana Sacayán–Lohana Berkins Law is based on the decree 721/2020, signed by Fernández, which sought to guarantee the labour inclusion of trans people in the national public sector.
[5] Berkins, together with Josefina Fernández, carried out a survey on the living conditions of travestis, which was published under the title La gesta del nombre propio.
These data made it possible to understand and make visible the living conditions of trans people, and many of them were contributed during the debates in the Congress.
[6] Sacayán, for her part, had promoted the creation of the Travesti–Trans Labour Quota Law[f] in the province of Buenos Aires.