Most of the murders have been registered in conservative states and remain unpunished, according to the Transgrediendo Intercultural Collective.
Organizations and civil rights activists remember this Saturday in different cities of the United States the memory of the 46 transsexual women murdered in 2021, the highest number of murders registered against this group marginalized in the country.
“Everything is related to this misogyny with this violence, this machismo. We live in a country where people can buy guns like candy”Liaam Winslet, director of the Transgrediendo Intercultural Collective, assures Efe, which is organizing a vigil tonight in the New York neighborhood of Queens on the occasion of the International Day of Transsexual Memory.
Winslet stresses that most murders have been recorded in conservative states “Where violence is most evident” and adds that the victims are “mostly black women, sex workers and trans women living in poverty.”
Winslet, whose association is dedicated to offering support to transsexual women, also denounces that “in most cases and, as in previous years, cases always go unpunished”.
In New York today half a dozen events are planned to remember the victims of transphobic violence and demand the recognition of their civil rights.
The Make the Road association, which participates in the activities, reported that on many occasions not adequately reported due to authorities misreporting sex and noted that in most cases the victims are black and Latina transgender women.
The Human Rights Campaing (HRC) organization, which monitors violence against this group, reported, for its part, the murder of 47 transsexuals in 2021, compared to 44 deaths registered in 2020, the year that at the time became the most violent against this group.
The last transsexual woman murdered in the United States, according to this association, was Angel Naira, a 36-year-old home health worker, shot to death in her home in Aliquippa (Pennsylvania) on November 11.
“Some of these cases involve a clear anti-transgender bias. In others, the Transgender or gender nonconforming status of the victim may have exposed her to other risks, such as forcing her into unemployment, poverty, homelessness and / or sex work to survive, “says HRC.
Local personalities such as the attorney general of New York, Letitia James, have shown their solidarity with the group, insisting that “trans rights are human rights.”
In San Francisco, California, the epicenter of the LGBTI rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, there were several events called for this Saturday, including a community gathering at the Latin market La Cocina Municipal.
In Chicago, local activists organized a vigil and community lunch in memory of the five trans and black women, all of them between 24 and 28 years old, murdered in the last year in that city.
There were also events and vigils called in the capital, Washington, and nearby Baltimore, Maryland, and at community centers and churches across the country, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Lubbock, Texas.
America’s Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, lit 46 candles representing the transgender people who have been killed this year in the U.S., and one more in memory of those killed across the world. world reported this Saturday the White House. (I)
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