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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina. In the second week of 2022, the second transfemicide of the year occurred in Argentina.

Police in San Isidro found a 46-year-old trans woman with the last name Giacobbi stabbed to death in a house in the town of Beccar, in the San Isidro district of Buenos Aires province , on Thursday, January 13, according to the district's police report.

After three days without any news of the woman's whereabouts and alarmed by a "strong odor," neighbors in the area notified the police. Upon arriving at the house located at 2400 América Street, between Gobernador Udaondo and Padre Acevedo, they found her body and footprints with bloodstains.

The investigation into the case is being carried out by staff from the prosecutor's office on duty in the San Isidro Judicial Department, under the direction of prosecutor Carolina Asprella.

What is known about the case

The woman's body was examined by forensic doctors who confirmed that death occurred between 36 and 48 hours before the time the body was discovered.

“It’s as if Argentine society doesn’t register the murder of trans women and trans people. There’s no way. Only the LGBTIQ+ community gives it any value. Transvestism always remains at the bottom of the list, ” Marcela Tobbaldi, president of the La Rosa Naranja Civil Association Presentes .

For her, "the violence perpetrated by men is very strong" and she believes that "the crime in Beccar is a hate crime."

According to the registry kept by La Rosa Naranja for the past five years across the country, last year there were 67 deaths of trans women, transvestites, and transgender people, and 4 of trans men. Of these, 10 were murdered.

A violence that does not decrease

The second transfemicide of 2022 occurred less than a week after the previous one, that of Aldana Lorenz, a 35-year-old trans woman . This represents 20 percent of the murders of trans women and transvestites that took place last year.

So far this year, the association has recorded eight deaths of transvestite and trans women due to transvesticide or social transfemicide - that is, those linked to state, judicial and social abandonment - and two murders.

“It’s an abomination that they continue to kill us in this way. This affects us all,” said Erika Moreno, a representative of the Red Diversa Positiva (Positive Diversity Network) in the province of Tierra del Fuego.

On this point, she elaborated: “ The transvestite and trans community are always the marginalized, the 'South Americans,' the ones who don't really have opportunities. Some of us have possibilities, many others don't . Older women live in abject poverty, lacking so many things.”

Therefore, he concluded: “ We urgently need historical reparation , compensation, to be truly taken into account.”