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The court orders the Buenos Aires City government to facilitate access to housing for transgender people
A ruling, described as "historic", orders the presentation of a program and a survey of the housing situation of the trans community.
Transfeminicide in Mexico: a woman was found murdered in Tabasco
Elisa was a 24-year-old woman. This week she was found dead on a highway in this state. The rise in violence and discrimination against transgender people.
#8M: Assembly heading towards March 8: this is how feminisms are preparing to take to the streets
Women and LGBTQ+ people came together to organize a massive, unified March 8th demonstration in the streets, focusing on Milei's economic austerity measures. “We were a tide, we will be a tsunami. The enemy is not feminism, it's the fascist right.”
Political violence: Senators aligned with the Cartes faction removed Kattya González, one of Paraguay's most voted-for opposition senators
The Cartes faction and its allies removed Senator Kattya González of the opposition National Encounter party—violating their own regulations—less than a year after she was elected with over 100,000 votes. This act of political violence and gender discrimination represents a blow to democracy.
How does the government's austerity measure impact trans people in Argentina?
The interruption of the National Social Protection Plan and the reductions in the Potenciar Trabajo program worsened the vulnerable situation of trans people in Argentina.
Mina Morsán: "It sounds like magical realism, but the jungle is resisting the train that isn't Mayan."
Mina Morsán, an activist, explains from Yucatán why organizations defending the territory are resisting the Maya Train megaproject and what the anticipated risks are that are beginning to materialize.
Misinformation in Mexico: It is false that gender dysphoria is a mental illness
Congresswoman Teresa Castell, from the conservative PAN party, once again pathologized trans people.
El Salvador: Bianka Rodríguez, the first trans woman to vote using her gender identity
Bianka Rodríguez voted for the first time with a validated identity in El Salvador's elections. Aldo Peña, a trans man, voted despite not being registered to vote, as the state has refused to recognize his name change based on gender identity. Legislation protecting the right to identity of the trans population in El Salvador is lacking in institutional processes such as voting.
“Repairing violence is a debt owed by states.”
How have anti-rights groups in El Salvador managed to remove everything related to comprehensive sexuality education from the education system? In this interview, Vilma Vaquerano, head of the Observatory of Violence Against Women at the organization ORMUSA, answers this question.
Mental health organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean spoke out against “conversion therapies”
Several organizations issued a statement calling for the eradication of these practices. Peruvian Alberto Belaunde explains the harmful impact of ECOSIG.