activists and officials they remembered the fight for the rights of the LGBTIQ+ collective of the transvestite militant Amancay Diana Sacayan and demanded “reinforce the trans agenda with laws that cover all claims”, seven years after his transvesticide.
“Another anniversary arrives and finds us asking for not one less trava, not one less trans. How do we achieve it? With access to health, to work, to education free of violence. We continue working and struggling so that those who come after achieve access all rights and can die of old age. We always say: our revenge will be to grow old,” the activist and president of Trans Women ArgentinaWild Alexandra.
Marcela Romero also spoke in this regard, for whom “it is necessary to reinforce the trans agenda with laws that cover all claims from childhood, adolescents and older adults.”
The objective is “eradicate violence and hate crimes against trans populations”told this agency and demanded a “Comprehensive Trans Law now.”
A fighter
Amancay Diana Sacayán was a historical activist for Human Rights, born in the province of Tucumán, who migrated to the Buenos Aires party of La Matanza with her family.
with other activists promoted the Gender Identity Law and the Travesti Trans Labor Quota in the province of Buenos Aireswhose enactment served as a precedent for the “Diana Sacayán – Lohana Berkins” Law to Promote Access to Formal Employment for Transvestites, Transsexuals and Transgender Persons (No. 27,636).
On October 11, 2015, she was murdered by two men. for whose crime Gabriel David Marino was convicted in 2018 in a ruling that used the figure of transvesticide for the first time.
“We vindicate her struggle and remember her as a symbol of militancy towards a more just and equal country,” the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity published on its Twitter account along with an infographic with her story.
Meanwhile, the Human Rights Secretariat remembered her as “one of the main militants in the fight for the human rights of the group of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people in Argentina.”
Likewise, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Cecilia Moreau, shared on her social networks: “We remember her for her militancy and fight for the rights of the LGBTIQ+ collective, which became a beacon for those of us who dream of a more just and egalitarian Argentina.”
Today marks the 7th anniversary of the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán, tireless defender of the rights of transvestites and trans. ??
We claim their struggle and remember it as a symbol of militancy towards a fairer and more equal country.
Do you know his story? ? pic.twitter.com/qrsLIFo39v
— Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity (@MinGenerosAR) October 11, 2022
In 2020, two years after the historic ruling, the National Criminal and Correctional Cassation Chamber of the Federal Capital upheld the conviction of Diana Sacayán’s murderer but denied the aggravating circumstance for hatred of gender identity.
“The case is in the Supreme Court. We are asking that it be opened to a public hearing, that transvestite voices be heard in the Court before deciding and so that all trans people and transvestites can participate in the hearing and see what is decided” The plaintiff attorney, Luciana Sánchez, informed Télam.
“What we are asking the Court is to reinstate the original sentence that had condemned one of the perpetrators for travesty and femicide and also to give us the reparations that we had requested – symbolic, fundamentally – that have to be manifested in public policies. and in a legal framework that specifically protects transvestites and trans people from violence and death,” he added.
He also indicated that they are “requesting resources to strengthen the investigation of the second author.”
In this sense, the Ministry of Security this year raised the reward to 2 million pesos to “those who provide information on the co-author of the transvesticide” of Sacayán.
