Post by Ayla on Nov 30, 2015 9:29:33 GMT 8
BUENOS AIRES — Diana Sacayán was found tied up in a 13th-floor apartment in Buenos Aires in October, stabbed to death. A month earlier, Marcela Estefanía Chocobar, 26, was decapitated and her body dumped on a vacant lot in Río Gallegos, in Patagonia. Also in September, in Santa Fe, a city on Argentina’s Pampas lowlands, the corpse of Fernanda Olmos, 59, was discovered on her bedroom floor, a plastic bag pulled over her head. She had also been stabbed.
The unsolved killings of transgender women in recent weeks have jolted Argentina, prompting soul-searching in a country that has introduced some of the most liberal civil rights legislation in Latin America, but that critics say remains mired in conservative and macho attitudes toward gender identity.
“Society hasn’t changed in the slightest,” said Andrea Cantero, 29, a hairdresser who until last year was called Andrés. “We’re people like anybody else,” she added, “but I feel it was a message to say, ‘You’re worthless.’”
www.sfgate.com/world/article/Killings-of-transgender-Argentines-test-6662103.php
The unsolved killings of transgender women in recent weeks have jolted Argentina, prompting soul-searching in a country that has introduced some of the most liberal civil rights legislation in Latin America, but that critics say remains mired in conservative and macho attitudes toward gender identity.
“Society hasn’t changed in the slightest,” said Andrea Cantero, 29, a hairdresser who until last year was called Andrés. “We’re people like anybody else,” she added, “but I feel it was a message to say, ‘You’re worthless.’”
www.sfgate.com/world/article/Killings-of-transgender-Argentines-test-6662103.php
