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Living on the streets in Buenos Aires: trans people, the most discriminated against
The Second People's Census of Homeless People in the City of Buenos Aires highlighted the specific problems faced by 42 transvestite and trans people.
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Two trans women attacked in one week: gunshots and bottles thrown at them
Pride Month ended with two hate crimes against transgender people in Paraguay. Barbi Aquino was shot in the arm in the early hours of June 27, and Andrea Casanova was attacked with a glass bottle on June 29.
A Jamaican trans woman seeking refuge in Argentina had three fingers cut off.
Angeline is a Jamaican asylum seeker in Argentina who escaped from one of the most homophobic countries in the world and arrived in Buenos Aires, where she rented a room in Villa Soldati.
Police officers arrested for the murder of a trans woman in El Salvador
Police in El Salvador arrested three officers from their force on suspicion of having participated in the kidnapping and aggravated homicide of Camila Díaz, a trans woman in January 2019.
The Buenos Aires court ruled in favor of a transgender municipal worker
By Rosario Marina. It took the justice system three and a half years to tell V, a trans worker, in complicated legal phrases, two words: you were right. In 2013, V began working as an administrative assistant in the municipality of La Plata, Buenos Aires province. In May 2015, when Julio Garro was in the midst of his campaign for…
Violence against transgender people has increased in Paraguay: the police are the main threat.
According to the report "Situation of violence towards trans people in Paraguay", in 2018 there were 68 reports of trans violence, of which 2 were transfemicides; 12 reports of discrimination and police violence; and 5 reports of state violence and discrimination in prisons.
Paraguayan trans activists make progress in changing their name on their documents
Trans activists Yren Rotela and Mariana Sepúlveda, after a two-year wait, won the first judicial instance in the process of changing the name on the Paraguayan identity card.
Zoe Quispe: life imprisonment for the accused without acknowledging transfemicide
The Criminal Court No. 2 of Jujuy sentenced the murderer of Zoe Quispe to life imprisonment but ignored the request to classify it as transfemicide.
Honduras: Three hate crimes against LGBT people in one week
In Honduras, where 68% of the 9 million people live in poverty and exclusion, deviating from heteronormativity can cost you your life. In the last week, two trans women and a lesbian were brutally murdered, and LGBTQ+ organizations are denouncing these as hate crimes.
Paraguay: They tried to murder a trans woman with metal rods
Lorena Ortega, 40, survived an attempted murder last night in the city of San Lorenzo. Three men and a cisgender woman threw her to the ground and began beating her with stones and metal rods.