Illustration: Florencia Capella. Natasha Banegas, a 22-year-old trans woman, was shot last night by two men on a motorcycle at the corner of Crisóstomo Álvarez and Moreno streets, part of the so-called "red-light district" in San Miguel de Tucumán. On Thursday, another man had savagely beaten her. She is hospitalized with serious leg injuries, but out of danger. "We were arriving in a taxi with other girls, and while we were greeting some other women, they stopped in front of us and pretended to be customers. I took two steps and saw one of them get off the motorcycle, pull a gun from his belt, and shoot me in the knee. I fell. In the background, I could hear the other girls screaming. He kept shooting me 11 more times and shattered my leg," Natasha Presentes

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Two attacks in less than 72 hours

On Thursday, January 11, the young woman suffered another attack by a man of approximately 35 years of age who was driving a white car. “He grabbed my hair, hit me, and choked me,” Natasha recounted. Today she had to go to the First Police Station of San Miguel de Tucumán to give a formal statement, as they are also involved in the latest attack.

#NotOneLessTrans: trans job quota

“All these cases are related to the trans quota that legislators shelved. These women are still forced to work on the streets, and it's not by choice because not all women have the same opportunities. And that exposes them to this violence. #NotOneMoreTransWoman,” she told Presents Gabriela de La Rosa, trans activist from the Association of Freedom and Organized Trans Pride (LOTO). On August 30, 2017, amidst demands for justice for the transvesticide of Ayelén Gómez, the trans employment quota bill was sent to committee. Or that “in legislative practice it is the same as sending the project to its death,” denounced Fabián Vera del Barco, LGBTI activist and professor at the Trans Educational Center (CETRANS), who promoted the project.]]>