In a surprising abbreviated trial for the transfemicide of Ayelén Gómez in Tucumán, the only defendant assumed authorship of the crime and a sentence was agreed upon.
Ayelén Gómez, a young trans woman, was murdered in August 2017 in Tucumán. "We know the investigation was flawed. At this stage, we demand that the State, which abandoned her at the time, take responsibility and deliver justice."
Yesterday, the Justice confirmed that the DNA of a mutilated body, which had been found on February 22 in the back of a house in the Villa Alem neighborhood, in the south of the provincial capital, is hers.
“We demand justice for all. Not one more trans woman lost, we want to live”: this is how the march led by Libertad y Orgullo Trans Organizadxs (LOTO) began, departing from Plaza Urquiza shortly after 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 7. The banner of the Ni Una Menos Tucumán collective accompanied the more than 300 people who marched through the central streets of the provincial capital, supporting the slogan 'Without trans women, there is no Ni Una Menos'.
“Without trans women, there is no one less”: less than six months later and in light of the recent acts of violence against trans women and transvestites, the LOTO group (Organized Trans Freedom and Pride) is calling for a new march to demand compliance with the Gender Identity Law, to ask for a trans job quota law and to say Enough of transvesticide and transfemicide.
In the early morning of September 30, Aracely Figueroa, 26, was on the corner of Buenos Aires and Crisóstomo Alvarez streets in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán. A police officer approached her and physically, psychologically, and verbally assaulted her because of her gender identity.
Around 1,500 people marched yesterday afternoon in the provincial capital to demand justice for Ayelén Gómez, the trans woman murdered last week, whose body was found at the Lawn Tennis Club. “I am suffering from her absence and I am grateful to everyone who joined this march,” Liliana, her mother, who is a plaintiff in the case, told Presentes.
Alma Fernández, a trans activist, mourns her friend Ayelén Gómez, murdered in San Miguel de Tucumán. There, they experienced the first chapters of the structural poverty that plagues the trans community, and the exclusion that persists even after violent death. "Ayelén couldn't even vote in the primaries; no one cared about her anymore, no one paid her any attention."
"A hug to the memory of our dead, to the memory of Ayelén Gómez." In Buenos Aires and Tucumán, trans activists and LGBTQ+ and human rights organizations are calling for a mobilization on Thursday to demand an end to transphobic murders and justice for Ayelén Gómez. Her body was found on Saturday under the bleachers of the Lawn Tennis Club in the provincial capital. After marching in a circle with the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, there will be a vigil.
Ayelén Gómez was murdered, and her body was found under a bleacher at the Lawn Tennis Club. The autopsy confirmed that she died of asphyxiation. Gatherings are being organized in Tucumán and Buenos Aires to demand justice and #StopTransMurders.
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