Sentence in Santa Fe: life imprisonment for the transfemicide of Alejandra Ironici
For the first time, a court in Santa Fe has used the legal concept of transfemicide. It did so to convict the murderer of activist Alejandra Ironici.
For the first time, a court in Santa Fe has used the legal concept of transfemicide. It did so to convict the murderer of activist Alejandra Ironici.
The trial for the transfemicide of Alejandra Ironici has begun. The prosecution hopes for a just sentence and that the crime will be considered a social transvesticide.
Colleagues and friends of Zoe López García, president of the Hotel Gondolín, tell how she became a role model for the transvestite and trans community and rescue her legacy.
Although the murders of trans women in Puebla exhibit characteristics of femicide, the authorities do not investigate them as such. Nor do they investigate them as hate crimes, thus rendering these crimes invisible and leaving them unpunished in the state.
Cleo and Valentina Paz were sex workers and were murdered.
La Chaqueña, a 64-year-old trans woman who survived gender-based violence, was the victim of a transfemicide. The suspect is in custody. But the injustice doesn't end with her death: her gender identity was not respected at her funeral.
Natalia's colleagues report that the aggressor tried to bribe the police to let him go free and that hotel staff prevented them from helping their friend while she was still alive.
In 2018, the murder of Cuqui Adriana Bonetto, a trans woman, shocked Rincón. Her killer was sentenced to life imprisonment. The court treated the crime as femicide, not as transfemicide, something that organizations had demanded.
It happened while she was working as a prostitute on Camino de Cintura, in the Province of Buenos Aires. A man viciously attacked her and threw her into a well.
Dani's family, along with friends, marched to demand an investigation into the woman's murder.