Twenty violent LGBTI deaths; hundreds infected and displaced by the coronavirus; two hurricanes in less than 15 days and the hearings for the hate crime of Vicky Hernández.
From the second quarter of the year onward, the violence escalated and hate crimes skyrocketed. The government's response was nonexistent.
"I want to emancipate myself from Christmas, like Mica surely does from her uncle and the imposed mandates; as children deserve; like all my trans and travesti comrades who on this hegemonic date are stripped and forced into the gathering," writes Violeta Alegre.
– My name is Alma, I'm from Tucumán, Débora Britos brought me here, I don't pay for a place – I replied.
Organizations built networks to address the crisis caused by Covid-19 and the storms. Guatemala ends 2020 with 19 hate crimes and no policies for LGBT+ people.
The year of the pandemic was characterized by a deepening of the social and economic crises that already existed in the LGBT population.
The pandemic increased violence against LGBT people online and at home. But 2020 also saw a historic victory for transgender children in Jalisco.
Attacks and hate crimes decreased due to quarantines, but the State left LGBT+ people unprotected during the pandemic.
Mara Gómez became the first trans woman footballer to play in the first division in Argentina.
On December 11, 2020, Claudia Vásquez Haro became the first trans/travesti woman to earn a doctorate from a public university in Argentina.
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