Prohibiting a person with a neurodevelopmental disorder from playing a sport would be a discriminatory act if it is not medically endorsed, because otherwise they would be violating the full enjoyment of their right; this was clarified by Lézit Rodríguez Chapula of the State Human Rights Commission in Jalisco (CEDHJ).
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José Miguel feels sad and afraid that they will take him out of school. (Special)
The foregoing after José Miguel, a young man with Asperger syndrome and who has already attended badminton competitions since 2018 at CODE Jalisco, was discriminated against by his coach by preventing him from attending games due to his condition.
“The protection of human rights is multidisciplinary, not just the legal, psychological, etc. field, in the case of the disciplines there must be a medical support where the specialist who attends to this medical situation that he has Asperger’s says, who says that the performance and at a more professional level or in other categories of this young man can put him at risk, that is, I am not just going to say it, I must be supported by other disciplines, which are reporting to me what I identify, but not anything more unilaterally,” he explained.
However, it surprises him that if the minor throughout his development has been part of it, why now that he goes to the under 15 category, they tell him that he cannot, which in the first instance is presumed to be probable discrimination against him and he saw important that they go to the corresponding instances so that they can follow up on their case.
“In the criminal sphere, it would be with the jurisdictional system that is the State Prosecutor’s Office to file a complaint for the probable crime of attacks against the dignity of people due to discriminatory behavior and the other would be there with the CEDHJ, but having already made it, stressed they will continue with their prosecution for violating their rights,” he assured.
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