“Homosexuality is unnatural and a disease.” That’s what a teacher told her fifth-year high school students at Pablo Apóstol School in Tucumán. The teenagers recorded her, and the video went viral on social media.
Casa Trans Zuleymi in Lima (Peru) is a transit center where trans people who are homeless, migrants or victims of violence can find guidance, information and a shoulder to lean on.
The gathering was scheduled for 5 p.m. in front of the First Police Station in the city of Mar del Plata. The initiative came from the Pride March Organizing Committee.
A man stabbed a trans woman in an area near the campus of the National University of Asunción (UNA), in the town of San Lorenzo (Greater Asunción).
In the last 10 years, Honduras has been the scene of crimes against 262 people from the LGBTI community. This is the number of homicide victims reported by the lesbian organization Cattrachas.
The directives issued by the Archbishop of La Plata, Monsignor Héctor Aguer, not only violate the rights of children—especially LGBTQ+ children—and expose them to greater violence, but also blatantly contradict the rule of law. His directives for Catholic schools in La Plata violate the Comprehensive Sex Education Law and the right to education.
Two social communication students and members of the LGBTI Organizations Front reported being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation at the Rey Lagarto bar in La Plata. They said they were insulted and pushed out onto the street. The bar denied that the expulsion was based on the sexual orientation of those involved.
A 23-year-old transgender woman was released after reporting torture by police officers from the 15th precinct in Asunción. Karina Fernández had been arrested in a red-light district of Asunción on August 29 and accused of robbery.
The organization Panambí filed a complaint against Asunción police for “torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment” of a 23-year-old transgender woman. She has been detained for a week and says she is being arbitrarily accused. The complaint was filed with the Human Rights Prosecutor's Office in Asunción and the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture (MNP).
“Are you a woman or a transvestite? Because if you’re a transvestite, we have to charge you admission,” Ximena, a young trans woman, recounted being told at the Clip Club nightclub in Mar del Plata. They are organizing a sit-in at the club's entrance on Saturday, September 2nd at 6 PM. They are also demanding: “Training on sexual diversity and gender identity is not being provided.”
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