Non -governmental organizations, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, condemned the transfeminicides and demanded justice.
“We deeply regret the murder of the Trans Defensor Katia Daniela Medina Rafael,” said UN Mexico on social networks.
“We remember the importance of a prompt and effective investigation that considers its work of defense of human rights and allows all those responsible to sanction,” he added.
We deeply regret the murder of the Trans Defensor Katia Daniela Medina Rafael, director of the Trans Zapotlán collective, whose body was located on August 9 in Zapotlán el Grande, #Jalisco.
We remember the importance of a prompt and effective investigation that …-UN-DH Mexico (@onudhmexico)
August 19, 2025
Collectives and organizations, several of Jalisco, also spoke about it and alerted for the increase in hate discourses and crimes.
So far from 2025 22 murders have been identified, almost three per month, as well as 15 disappearances, according to the National Observatory of Hate Crimes against LGBT people, which records 376 cases of murder since 2020.
The Pride march collective in Guadalajara and the Jalisco Diversa Union Association demanded to the authorities with gender and sexual diversity perspective to clarify the transfeminicides.
They also demanded that the municipalities of the State older efforts so that trans women have an environment free of violence and without discrimination.
“With deep outrage we raised the voice demanding justice, now by Joselinne Páez,” they said in a statement.
Another request is that the penalty of hate speeches, gender identity, sexual orientation, gender expression, race or ethnicity legislate at the federal and state level.
