Guatemala: I was a trans woman despite the prejudices
This project portrays the struggle of six trans women in a Guatemala marked by prejudice and a justice system that refuses to investigate why they are being killed.
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GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala. "I Was a Trans Woman Despite the Prejudices" is a journalistic special that portrays the struggle of six trans women in a society marked by prejudices like Guatemala, and with a justice system that resists investigating why they are killed.
This special investigation was conducted by Evelyn Boche and Jovanna García, edited by Julie López, and designed in its original publication by Gabriela Rivadeneira. Agencia Presentes reproduces it by arrangement with No Ficción*.
Research: Trans women and a silenced identity
In Guatemala, the lack of recognition of gender identity, coupled with prejudice, prevents crimes against trans women from being identified as such and from being solved to prove that these prejudices were the motives behind their deaths. This is why there are no official statistics on transfemicides. For the state, trans women and crimes against them are nonexistent, even on paper.
Trans women, and the injustice of a silenced identity in Guatemala
Photo gallery: The lives of trans women in an hourglass
The transfemicide of Luisa Sandoval and clues to a hate crime
Being a trans woman in an environment of violence
*This project was made possible with the support of the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) as part of its Express Yourself! initiative in Latin America. Distributed by Non-Fiction Guatemala.
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