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Following the circulation of a highly homophobic slide on social media yesterday, the Student Center of the Faculty of Medicine (CECIM) at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) filed a complaint today with the Department of Violence and Discrimination Reporting to condemn the slide and request an investigation into what occurred during the summer lecture of the legal medicine course on February 15th. They also ask anyone who witnessed the lecture to come to the Nuevo Espacio table on Monday, February 19th, to support the complaint.
Transgender women in Asunción and surrounding areas reported at least five attacks against them in a single night over the past weekend. They denounce a new wave of violence against them, and also the impunity surrounding these crimes.
The Municipality of Providencia approved a circular indicating that officials working in the municipality must refer to trans people by their name and social identity and not by the registered name (the one that appears on the identity card).
With a script by Lucas Fauno Gutiérrez and illustrations by Jon Amarillo, the duo Bicho and I put on the Sailor Moon uniform and appeal to her lunar magic scepter to answer the question: How can you not tell me that you have a bug?
Last Friday, Valeria Licciardi, a former participant in the reality show Big Brother, was the only trans woman invited to discuss feminism, transphobia, the right to abortion, among other issues, on the program Intrusos, hosted by Jorge Rial.
The Ykua Poty ecotourism farm, near Asunción, refused entry to a gay couple who wanted to celebrate Valentine's Day lunch there.
The public trial for the murder of Diana Sacayán, a trans activist and human rights defender, was scheduled to begin this Friday, February 16. However, today the Criminal and Correctional Court No. 4 of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires announced that the start date has been postponed until next month. The first hearing will be on March 12.
In the early hours of Sunday, February 11, Marcelo Mangini was at the Tom Jones bar in Necochea (Buenos Aires province) with friends. They were dancing with a young man and started kissing when, according to Marcelo's account to Presentes, the owner approached them and said, "It's all good with you, but slow down with the kissing if you want to stay." A short time later, two bouncers forcibly removed them from the bar.
Early Thursday morning, Adriana Bonetto was murdered in her home in Rincón, Santa Fe. The main suspect is a man with whom she had been in a relationship for several months. Family and friends of the trans woman are demanding justice and organizing a march for next week.
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