A law criminalizing transfemicide has been approved in Mexico City
The Mexico City Congress approved the Paola Buenrostro law that defines the crime of transfeminicide in the Penal Code.
The Mexico City Congress approved the Paola Buenrostro law that defines the crime of transfeminicide in the Penal Code.
Kenia Cruz was 20 years old and a man had already tried to kill her a year ago. Since then she had been receiving threats.
The court decided to maintain the preventive detention of Carlos Rodríguez, one of the accused, and released the 9 officers for "lack of merit".
According to the latest expert reports, at least ten police officers were involved in the transfemicide of Sofia Fernandez in a police station in Derqui, in April 2023.
Dámaris "Biscochito" León migrated from Ecuador to live her trans identity and fulfill her dream of becoming a dancer. She was murdered by a man.
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.