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.
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.
Kendra in Tijuana, Valeria in Colima, Ivonne in Mexico City, Michell and Dayana in Jalisco, and a trans woman whose name remains unknown were all victims of lethal violence due to transphobia in Mexico. They demand investigations with a gender and human rights perspective.
This is the third transfemicide reported this year in Colima, western Mexico. But the Attorney General's Office is not investigating it as a hate crime.
Ivonne, a 32-year-old trans woman, was tortured and murdered at her beauty salon in Iztapalapa. One person has been arrested.
Kaory had fled Honduras after receiving death threats. Mexican activist Kenya Cuevas claimed her body and requested its repatriation, but the Honduran consulate denied the request.
Together with the organization Poder, we investigated cases of companies that claim to be inclusive but discriminate against and deny services to the LGBT+ community in Mexico.
Lesbianism itself destabilizes gender conformity, which is why exploring the concept of "lencha" beyond "woman who loves another woman" is more than just a gamble; it is currently urgent to address because it exists, it is real, and here we are.
On June 5, a young man was murdered in Cancún after revealing at a party that he was living with HIV. On Saturday, there were demonstrations in the state of Quintana Roo and in Mexico City.
On June 6, Mexico held its "most inclusive" elections in history. Part of that inclusion was the implementation of the Trans Protocol. However, during voting on Sunday, transgender people reported that their gender identity and name were not respected.
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