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Gender policies in Argentina: Who will defend us now?
Workers from the former Ministry of Women, Gender, and Diversity of the Nation held an assembly to defend public gender policies.
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Unprecedented ruling: “gender hatred” included in attempted transvesticide of trans activist Claudia Vásquez Haro
The defendant was sentenced to 10 years in prison. This is a ruling that could set a precedent.
Transvesticide in La Plata: Nicol died, brutally beaten for defending her sister
Nicol Ruiz, a trans activist, was 35 years old. She died after suffering in the hospital, following a blow to the head inflicted by her brother-in-law on September 23.
The judge who increased the sentence of a trans woman because she was a migrant was acquitted.
The judge who had been denounced and suspended in 2019 for aggravating the sentence of a trans woman for being a foreigner was acquitted.
A trans woman was abused in a Buenos Aires police station during a riot.
In the midst of a protest at a police station, a group of detainees sexually abused a trans woman, who should have been transferred to the women's jail.
Claudia Vásquez Haro, the first trans woman to earn a doctorate from a public university 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.
Report: Transvestites and transsexuals in Argentine prisons: more migrants, younger people, and no convictions
A report by Otrans Argentina reveals: two-thirds of incarcerated trans people are between 25 and 40 years old, most of them migrants.
Attempted transvesticide case against Otrans leader sent to trial
The La Plata Justice system has brought to trial the attempted murder of Otrans activist Claudia Vázquez Haro, and considered hatred of gender identity as an aggravating factor.
A 34-year-old trans woman was shot and killed in Florencio Varela.
2017 ended with another trans victim, adding to the list of deaths of trans and travesti people in Argentina. Carolina Angulo Paredes, 34, was shot in the chest in the early hours of December 29 in Florencio Varela.
Concern over request to release the accused of trying to kill a trans activist
Human rights organizations expressed concern over the decision by prosecutor Ana Medina, head of UFI 1 in La Plata, to grant Leonardo Mendoza early release. Mendoza, 25, was arrested and charged with attempting to murder Claudia Vásquez Haro, a trans activist and president of Otrans Argentina.