Argentine President Javier Milei is facing a new controversy after he made a series of homophobic and transphobic comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Congressman Esteban Paulón, a long-time LGBTQ rights activist, in a criminal complaint he filed argues the president used discourse that promotes negative stereotypes, and encourages violence against the LGBTQ community.
Milei in his Jan. 23 speech made statements that linked the LGBTQ community to pedophilia, specifically citing the case of a gay couple in Georgia sentenced to life in prison last year after they pleaded guilty to sexually abusing their two adopted children.
Milei also claimed 5-year-old children undergo gender-affirming surgeries, an argument that experts have categorically denied.