Global health. The current scenario and future perspectives

228 14. Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Keys to Equality and Full Citizenship Pamela Eguiguren Bravo Sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) are frequently approached from a public health and healthcare services perspective. While acknowledging their significant role in this domain, it is crucial to recognize that exercising these rights goes beyond improving health indicators. It also empowers individuals, particularly women, to realize their civil and political rights. The normalization of rights violations related to SRR often revolves around violence and influences social, political and identity-related spheres. These rights are essential not only for individual fulfillment but also for shaping the subject as political actor. Chile recently experienced a crucial political moment regarding citizenship and its demands, with a focus on sexual and reproductive rights (SRR), which was put on the agenda by the diverse feminist movements. Despite the rejection of the constitutional convention in 2022, feminism’s growing influence has continued to break barriers and shape the ongoing social movement by advocating for constitutional reform in the country. Now it is time to expand our understanding of SRR beyond solely sexual and reproductive health perspectives. This i both an example and an opportunity to deepen public health discussions on the right to health for various reasons. Overcoming disciplinary boundaries and limitations requires addressing social determinants and their intersectionality through social and political organization. Transforming social structures to mitigate health inequities must begin by depatriarchalizing our constitution, an essential step to depatriarchalize the State. The constitutional processes in our region point towards changes needed in our own context. Gender Recognition and Sexual and Reproductive Rights Sex categorizes human beings based on biological attributes while separating specific male/female reproduction functions binarily. Alongside this categorization process, human beings experiencing these functions have been and continue to be influenced by culture. The gender system operates in interaction with social structures and institutions through the socialization of rigid binary and hierarchical gender attributes (Guzmán, 2003). Sexuality and reproduction undoubtedly transcend biology as they are also social and political matters that involve decision-making. They are crucial aspects of people’s lives for the realization of their individual and collective projects. Feminism, from its various spaces, has identified the injustices experienced by women and men in their diversity in processes