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Transvestite-trans memory: “Carnival was the only moment of freedom”
Photos and testimonies from the Trans Memory Archive explain why the parade was the moment that transvestites and trans people waited for all year.
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Zabala Clinic accused of harassing a trans patient
A sex reassignment surgery turned into a nightmare of abuse.
The film about the world's first transgender high school
“Mocha: our struggle, her life, my right”: the documentary about the world’s first trans high school.
Alessia Injoque: a trans and migrant executive challenges the corporate world
She is 37 years old and holds a leadership position in one of the most important companies in Chile; her public transition made her an activist and LGBT role model in Chile.
500,000 pesos to find the co-author of the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán
The case became the first transvesticide in which there was a life sentence for "hatred of gender identity".
Map of hate crimes in Argentina 2019
An updated map of hate crimes against LGBT+ people and social transvesticide during 2019.
Laly Heredia, a 36-year-old trans woman, was murdered on Camino de Cintura.
Laly Heredia was a 36-year-old trans woman. She was killed by a gunshot to the hip, but she had been shot several times before that.
PARAGUAY: Diverse House, first home for LGBT+ victims of violence
By Juliana Quintana, from Asunción. Photos: Jessie Insfrán. “We demand the depathologization of trans identity.” “We demand the right to non-discrimination.” “We demand the right to identity.” These are some of the slogans hanging on the walls of Casa Diversa, a temporary shelter for LGBTQ+ people who are victims of violence…
A police commissioner attacked a trans woman in La Rioja.
The aggressor is Claudio Herrera Luna, second in command at the Women, Minors, and Family Police Station in the city of Chamical. He forcibly removed her from a local festival and assaulted her.
Authorities are investigating the death of a trans woman in Paraná; she was 33 years old.
Jésica Benavídez was a 33-year-old trans woman who lived in Paraná. Her body was found seated, lifeless, inside her home. The autopsy results will reveal the cause of death.