Dalma Emilce Lobo is a 39-year-old trans activist: a survivor in Latin America, where trans people have a life expectancy of 35. This week she was tried for attempted robbery. "It was a fabricated case," she has repeated since October 23, 2014.
The space is popularly known among the Chilean LGBTI community as the “Preu Trans,” but it owes its name to Mara Rita, a trans teacher on the volunteer team who passed away last year. Here, trans people, transvestites, lesbians, gays, and queer people come together to receive academic, social, and personal training.
More than a thousand women participated in the 20th Regional Meeting of Women, Lesbians, Transvestites and Trans in Merlo (Buenos Aires province)
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.
It happened at San Martín Hospital in La Plata. Shirley, a 61-year-old trans woman, went to the emergency room due to a spike in blood pressure. There, she was treated using male pronouns, and then, according to her complaint, a nurse sexually assaulted her in an elevator. A formal complaint has been filed, and yesterday social organizations held a press conference at the provincial Ministry of Health.
Andrea González was murdered in December 2016 in Ciudad del Este. She was 20 years old and had a hearing impairment. This is the first transphobic murder in Paraguay where the Prosecutor's Office has filed charges, but there are reports that a witness has been threatened and the main suspect is under house arrest. A march was held to demand that the crime not go unpunished. "They kill us and no one goes to jail."
Amid calls for justice for the transphobic murder of Ayelén Gómez, killed three weeks ago, the bill establishing a quota for transgender employment was scheduled to be debated today in the Tucumán Legislature. However, a procedural motion sent the bill to committee. “It’s the same as sending it to its death,” Fabián Vera del Barco told Presentes.
Franchesca lost an eye to the gunshot wound, and the man, a customer, fled. The 31-year-old woman remained in intensive care until today, and the Formosa Women's Secretariat intervened in the attack.
“Pink Boys and Blue Girls” collects the testimonies of transgender children and adolescents and their families in Chile. It was produced and premiered in 2015 with the support of the Transitar Foundation and is now available to watch online.
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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