For three years (2019, 2020 and 2021), Veracruz has been the entity where murders against people of sexual and gender diversity have been recorded the most, according to data from the National Observatory of Hate Crimes against LGBT People. of the Rainbow Foundation.
In 2019 there were a total of 74 murders against this community in the country; of these, 21 occurred in Veracruz. Coahuila was in second place with 12 and in third Chihuahua, with eight.
The year 2020 it also recorded 21 murders in Veracruz out of 66 nationwide. It was followed by Chihuahua with eight, Michoacán and Oaxaca, with five each.
Of the 73 murders recorded in 2021, 14 were in Veracruz, 12 in Morelos, and 10 in Baja California.
The observatory indicates that the 4 murders recorded so far in 2022 occurred in Veracruz, Nayarit, Oaxaca and Puebla.
In the foundation’s 2020 Report on Hate Crimes Against LGBT People in Mexico, it is explained that the COVID-19 pandemic was a major national challenge that revealed and exacerbated the social inequalities that still prevail in the country. The data also showed that violence against trans women increased and the numbers against lesbian women began to be a constant as well.
“Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people, victims of violence and discrimination based on their sexual orientation, expression or gender identity, have been seriously affected by this pandemic, with little or no access to justice and the corresponding protections.”
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1,175 complaints
In the context of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, the National Council to Prevent Discrimination (Conapred) reported that from 2012 to March 2022, it has registered “1,175 complaints related to people of sexual and gender diversity, of which 708 correspond to acts related to homophobia; 240 for lesbophobia, 220 for transphobia, four for intersexphobia and three for biphobia.”
The statement from this institution explains that the most frequent causes are related to orientation and gender identity; and that the areas in which they presented themselves most are in the workplace, public services and in culture, recreation and recreation.
#Boletín On the National Day of the Fight against Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, we reported that there are 1175 complaints of discrimination related to people of sexual diversity. We are #MásDiversidad if we build equality. #IDAHOT2022 pic.twitter.com/XMQ5LOwl2s
— conapred (@CONAPRED) May 17, 2022
Conapred adds that so far, only 25 entities recognize marriage equality, that only 20 entities have done so with respect to the right to gender identity and nine sanction conversion therapies, known as Efforts to Correct Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (Ecosig).
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This May 17 marks the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. In 2004 the United Nations, through the General Assembly of the World Health Organization, declared the commemoration on the date on which homosexuality was no longer considered a mental illness.
We all have a responsibility to oppose homophobia, transphobia and biphobia, because everyone deserves to live safely and with dignity. #IDAHOTB
Full statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees @FilippoGrandi: https://t.co/DhNjfDBL8I pic.twitter.com/c1Qa5ti3hH
— UNHCR/UNHCR Americas (@ACNURamericas) May 17, 2022
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