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Of the LGBTTTIQ+ community, transsexual women are the ones who experience the highest level of inequality in Mexico City and the rest of the country, they are more discriminated against, vulnerable and this means that their quality of life is minimal because they are more exposed to poverty, health problems, access to education and are frequent victims of hate crimes and most cases go unpunished.
Human rights organizations and activists reiterate that there is a debt with trans women, whose priority activity is sex work, as the same Council to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination of Mexico City (COPRED), recognizes and the Local Congress itself wants to reform the Penal Code to protect this population.
Photo: David Deolarte | La Prensa
During 2021, 66 hate crimes were registered. The states that reported the most casualties for this reason were Baja California, Chihuahua and Veracruz with 30 cases, followed by the State of Mexico, Guanajuato and Colima.
In the first six months of 2021, 21 trans people have been murdered in only one fifth of the national territory. The black list was headed by Veracruz with eight murders and one disappearance in the first half of that year, in which the constant is viciousness and violence.
In the last five years, according to Letra S, the accumulated number of LGBTI+ violent deaths totals at least 459 victims. Trans women continue to be the most numerous victims with a figure of 43 transfeminicides, representing 52.5 percent of the total number of cases as of 2020.
Marlene, a trans woman who works as a sex worker, told La Prensa that she has been attacked on several occasions by macho men who have a tendency to homosexuality, "and after hiring their services they act dignified and attack each other with blows and do not stop attacking you with the phrase "fucking faggot, you cheated on me".
The researcher of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities (CEIICH), Siobhan Guerrero Mc Manus, points out that trans women are represented as dangerous bodies, as demons, and social networks have fed tribal attitudes of exclusion and discrimination.
Regarding cases of hate crimes, the university researcher referred that, in 2020, in Mexico 52 percent of hate crimes towards LGBTTTIQ+ people were against...