On November 8, the pro-statehood candidate Ricardo Rosselló was declared the winner of Puerto Rico's elections. Rosselló has conservative views similar to those of US President-Elect Donald Trump, and Puerto Rican human rights activists wonder how his administration's policies will affect the archipelago, including the rights of women's, persons with disabilities, immigrants, and LGBTQ groups. Puerto Rico's economic instability is also a concern, naturally. Trump's critics across the United States spent Wednesday, November 9, in mourning. This was also true in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory where people have U.S. citizenship but are barred from voting in the presidential election, unless they reside in one of the 50 U.S. states. Rosselló is president of the New Progressive Party, which advocates statehood for Puerto Rico, and is also the son of a former Puerto Rican governor under whose administration corruption was rampant. Last week, after narrowly winning 41.8 percent of the vote, Rosselló announced that the pursuit of statehood would be one of his administration's top priorities. Although Rosselló is a Democrat, key points of his political program align with the U.S. Republican Party. The Republican Party's platform is committed to support statehood for Puerto Rico (although this has not materialized in past Republican administrations). He has also promised to work in concert with the US imposed Fiscal Control Board to negotiate Puerto Rico's debt. Roselló's main adversary, David Bernier (from the pro-Commonwealth party), lost with 38.9 percent of the vote. The rest of the electorate supported independent candidates and other members of the pro-independence Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño and Partido del Pueblo Trabajador parties, getting 19.3 percent of the vote. In the Senate, meanwhile, some independent and pro-independence candidates won seats. The Gender Equality Education curriculum, approved by Puerto Rico's Department of Education, might be amended or eliminated under the New Progressive Party's administration, according to previous remarks by Rosselló. Educators, however, say the new curriculum represents progress in the struggle for human rights, as well as years of advocacy work by various social movements. Last year, the department introduced the program's various goals, along with orientation materials for teachers in public schools: La enseñanza de equidad de género es, sobre todo, un enfoque de análisis, una manera de aprender a mirar la realidad que nos ayude a repensar las construcciones sociales y culturales de la distribución de roles que afectan nuestra sociabilidad. Lo que se pretende es evitar las desigualdades existentes en la sociedad; acabar con las discriminaciones, no solo por sexo o identidad de género, sino por diversidad funcional, origen nacional, creencias religiosas o políticas, entre otras; y promover el desarrollo integral de las personas, independientemente de su sexo o de la identidad de género con que se identifiquen. Gender equality education focuses on a particular analysis: a new way to look at a reality that helps us rethink social and cultural constructions regarding the established gender roles that affect our sociability. We intend to avoid the existing inequalities in our society, and end discrimination, not just by sex or gender identity, but by diversity, national origin, religious, or political beliefs, among others, and promote integral human development, independently from sex or gender identity. Ricardo Rosselló in a press conference. Screen shot from NotiCel Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVSRFeQPI4. Following his election, Rosselló announced that he would not repeal the legislation used to implement the new curriculum, but he vowed to amend the Gender Equality Education program to reflect his administration's values and vision. José Rodríguez Irizarry, a coordinator for the Proyecto Instituto del Género y Educación de Avanzada (Gender Institute and Advanced Education Project), expressed his concerns regarding Rosselló's plan, stating that his party has consistently been a staunch enemy of the LGBTQ community and fails to comprehend the indispensable importance of this curriculum. Meanwhile, Partido del Pueblo Trabajador (PPT) candidate and lawyer Mariana Nogales Molinelli released a statement on her public Facebook page reiterating her party's opposition to President-elect Donald Trump's xenophobic, misogynist, and homophobic discourse.