Identity and (mis)recognition: Press narratives on the issuance of the first non-binary identity card in Chile

This article analyses the narratives constructed by digital press media in Chile around the issuance of the first non-binary identity card document in 2022. Nine journalistic articles were examined using narrative and structural analysis, in dialogue with the critical theory of recognition. The results show that, although the media do not adopt overtly hostile discourses, their coverage reproduces omissions, contradictions, and fragmentations that restrict the public recognizability of non-binary identities. We signal editorial strategies that oscillate between the symbolic validation of individual experiences and a technified and depoliticized representation of collective demand, without offering interpretative frameworks that allow us to understand the structural dimension of the struggle for recognition. It is concluded that media recognition, when not articulated with transformative narratives, can lead to subtle forms of exclusion, such as stagnation and delegitimization, that operate under an apparent social visibilization of non-binary identities.