Alejandra Salazar, a transgender woman who went missing about a week ago, was found dead by authorities and strangled in her home with a paper bag over her head.
The one-day search for Salazar (54) in the Argentine district of Buenos Aires in Balvanera seized the local community. But neighbors have reported foul odors from an apartment complex on 2200 Corriented Avenue.
The Buenos Aires City Police said loudly Diario De Cuyo Online media that the property manager failed to see the victim once a week.
Officers found Salazar’s naked body with his head on the floor near his bed, they said, with sex toys strewn on the floor. They added that early reports estimated the date of death to be around seven to ten days.
Salazar, they said, was from Peru.
LGBT + advocacy groups demand justice for Alejandra Salazar as trans mortality rates soar
The civil society La Rosa Naranja, a local group of LGBT + activists, organized his death Twitter. According to the network’s record, Salazar is the 106th known trans person to be killed in Argentina this year alone – 105 trans women and one trans man died in 2020.
“Today (December 14th) we mourn another trans colleague,” the group wrote in the statement. “It was a transmord! We demand justice for Alejandra!
“Our condolences to everyone [her] Relatives, friends and acquaintances. “”
Watch groups estimate the number of transgender people murdered in 2020 at 15, but point out that that number does not capture the real specter of violence Argentines face.
Given the widespread contempt for victims in law enforcement and the press, and the lack of a centralized crime database in the country, countless transmords go unreported.
The data provided by the police force is often incomplete, forcing many LGBT + activists to sift through sometimes unreliable reports to understand the full extent of the violence.
For years, activists have pointed to the growing gap between Argentina’s advanced LGBT + rights and the realities trans people face.
The Argentine Ley de Identidad de Género 2012 or the “Gender Identity Law” enshrined one of the strongest rights for transsexuals in South America. For example, granting gender-affirming surgeries as part of public and private health plans and changing gender tags on ID documents without the need for approval from a doctor or judge.
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2020-12-16 04:22:04