The gruesome killing on Saturday of a second transgender woman in northern Mexico has unnerved the local transgender community and amplified calls for greater protections in the Latin American nation.
Relatives react near a crime scene where unknown assailants murdered a member of the LGBT community, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico September 5, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Those demands were sparked by the murder late of Ciudad Juarez-born transgender activist Mireya Rodriguez Lemus, whose body was found earlier this week in Aquiles Serdan, a town in the northern Chihuahua state. “We don’t know what to do anymore because there are so many hate crimes against the trans population.”
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