2008 / 2021
Cuba’s health ministry created a national commission and an SNS centre for sex-reassignment treatments.
What the law allows
Medical care for minorsAffirming
MINSAP Resolución 126/2008 created the national centre authorised for sex-reassignment treatment.
MINSAP — Resolución Ministerial 126/2008
Schools — curriculumCSE in schools
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) under MINED Resolución 16/2021. The ministry postponed rollout until conditions exist.
MINED — Resolución 16/2021 (SITEAL PDF)
Key dates2008
2008: MINSAP Resolución 126/2008 created the national centre authorised for sex-reassignment treatment.
MINSAP — Resolución Ministerial 126/2008
Official sources
Caribbean. MINSAP RM 126/2008 national transsexual-health pathway.
Full official record
Ministerio de Salud Pública Resolución Ministerial 126/2008 creates a CENESEX-led Comisión Nacional and a Centro de atención a la salud integral de las personas transexuales as the only Sistema Nacional de Salud unit authorized for sex-reassignment treatments.
Resolución 126/2008 creates the only SNS unit authorized for total or partial sex-reassignment treatments. The resolution does not name puberty blockers or set an age for those treatments.
Schools detail
Ministerio de Educación Resolución 16 of 26 February 2021 approved a Programa de Educación Integral en Sexualidad con enfoque de género y derechos sexuales y reproductivos for the national school system. MINED later postponed applying that resolution until the necessary conditions are in place.