The Movement for Homosexual Integration (Movilh) denounced the suicide of a 16-year-old trans youth in Copiapó, a city in northern Chile. On Thursday, May 23, Matías, as he was known, jumped from the building where he lived.
The well-known gay makeup artist Guillermo Sandoval Agurto was murdered on May 18 at his home: his body was found bound and with cuts.
Two trans women, part of the civil society group against forced displacement due to violence, were denied entry to the public venue.
This afternoon there were two key events in the trial: the charge was changed from simple homicide to hate crime and transfemicide; and a “repentant” witness declared that the accused Ángel Azzolini and Oscar Biott had dismembered the young woman.
Héctor Mario Coquean, head of Police Station No. 4 in Lomas de Zamora until 2017, is accused of leading a gang that sexually exploited cisgender, transvestite, and transgender women in situations of structural vulnerability along Provincial Route No. 4.
Photo: Titi Nicola | CC-BY-SA-4.0 Presentes Agency, Wikimedia Argentina, and Periódicas—a feminist media outlet—are inviting people to participate in an LGBT+ edit-a-thon and a workshop for students, journalists, and communicators in the city of Santa Fe: “How to Cover Sexual Diversity Issues from a Rights-Based Perspective.” The activities will take place on Friday, May 31st…
“We are being discriminated against for being transgender. We are part of El Salvador and as such we demand our fundamental rights.”
On Tuesday, May 14th, at the civil registry in Mar del Plata, the birth certificate of Tito, a five-year-old transgender child, was amended. This is the step prior to issuing an ID card that reflects the gender identity he has expressed since he began speaking.
In Paraguay, a law against all forms of discrimination and a gender identity law are becoming increasingly urgent. People in the LGBTIQ+ community find no protection in the justice system when hate crimes and abuses of power are committed.
Sexual orientation is the physical, emotional, erotic, affective, and spiritual attraction that a person feels for another, whether of the same or different sex. Gender identity is the lived experience of an individual's gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex assigned at birth.
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