Fátima Barrios, a 29-year-old trans woman, died following a police operation. She is being accused of institutional violence. The autopsy results are pending.
While Veracruz continues to ignore proposals for a gender identity law, the long struggle of trans people has resulted in more and more of them achieving recognition of their identity, sometimes without needing legal protection.
To reflect on activism, illness but also paths to healing, Presentes spoke with two activists and an official about the internal dynamics of social movements and what it means to defend human rights.
Self-organized transvestites and trans people, along with family and friends, demanded that the justice system investigate the case and clarify the causes of her death, and called on the national, provincial, and municipal governments to address the lack of concrete public policies for the community.
Aline Sánchez, 41, was murdered in her apartment in Mexicaltzingo, State of Mexico (Edomex), on July 19. 400 kilometers away, in the city of San Luis Potosí, Fabiola Rivera, 43, was murdered in her beauty salon in the early morning of July 21.
It is necessary to first rectify the birth certificate at any Civil Registry office in the country.
In an initiative promoted by the Trans Memory Archive, an immense pink, white and light blue flag will travel the country to reach the Memory and Human Rights Space (former ESMA) in the city of Buenos Aires on November 20, International Trans Day of Remembrance.
Edomex became the 16th of 32 states to guarantee the right to change gender on the document through administrative means for trans people of legal age.
The Chilean Senate gave preliminary approval to the bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the country, with 29 votes in favor, 14 against and no abstentions, so it advances to the Chamber of Deputies.
By decree, the National Registry of Persons of Argentina must adapt the National Identity Documents and Passports by incorporating the X to move away from the binary scheme of "Female" and "Male".
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