People LGBTIC In America, they continue to see how their rights refuse several countries, they are questioned in others and even reduce places such as USA and Argentina, that from the north and south of the continent causes a hurry against Sexual and gender diversity.
America represents a wide range of legal contexts for people LGBTIC Of countries such as Jamaica, which criminals homosexuality for others who recognize Gender changeNevertheless, the field is constant throughout the region that violence against people LGBTIC It grows even in countries with large warranty laws.
Violence against community LGBTIC It is preserved
According to the latest network report No violence which controls the situation in the ten countries of the region, in 2023 364 people from the LGBTC community were killed in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. IN Brazil, Gay -gay -da Bai NPO reports on a violent death associated with this population every 34 hours.
IN Colombia, Where equal marriage has been legal since 2016, only in the first five months of 2025 there were 43 killings. In 2024, the indicator increased by 3.8% compared to the previous year, and 689 were registered Sexual attacks against LGBTIC Almost two cases a day. Lesbian and bisexual women suffered half of these attacks.
For your part, Brazil This is still one of the most deadly countries, especially for Trans people. In 2024, 106 trance blessings were killed, 30% of the whole world, according to Association of Monitoring Trans -MilitiaThe field of homosexual marriages have been recognized since 2011, allows you to prohibit gender changes based on self -confident and conversion therapy.
Mexico registered 148 murders LGBTIC In 2024, more than half of them are translated, according to data National Observatory of crimes on the basis of hatred. These figures arise, despite the fact that the country allows an equal marriage, recognizes the same couples in ten states and authorizes gender changes in twenty of 34 regions.
Since 2004, at least 565 community members LGBTIC were killed in Honduras And more than 98 % of cases remain unpunished, according to Outsery of violence in relation to the people of LGBTIC+.
The stagnant rights of the LGBTIC
WITH Argentina It was a pioneer in America to find out homosexual marriage In 2010, twelve countries followed the footsteps. However, there are still states that do not accept this, like most Central America, Venezuela, Paraguay or Peruwhere is the examination of 2024 IPSOS He showed that 66 % of the Peruvians against the recognition of this right.
Regarding the legalization of gender changes for trans -people, Argentina and Ecuador They recognize this opportunity based on the self -esteem of the one who requests it while Cuba and Panama They still require a floor change operation to give changes and most Central America and the Caribbean This did not legalize the transition.
Five Caribbean countries -Granada, Gayana, Jamaica, Santa-Lusia and San Vicente and Las Grenadadin- They criminalize homosexual relations, having versions of such laws “Sodomy” and “obscenity” that date back to the colonial era and make these nations atypical cases in the Western Hemisphere.
In Bolivia, crimes on the basis of hatred are not typified in the legislation, and, therefore, there are no figures for violence on discrimination LGBTIK, Similarly Salvador or Guatemala.
Protection for Intersex PEOPLE The region is almost zero: SOLor Colombia and Chile They limit operations in intersexual childhood, a practice convicted by HRW as unnecessary and harmful physically and mentally.
Trump and Miles
This year, the 50th anniversary of the first parade was performed LGBTIC In Washington, but the holiday is bitter before the administration Donald Trump Against this group.
From his return to the White House, Trump encouraged at least four measures that activists consider direct attacks on the community: he excluded legal recognition NOT -niggled people Having established that in the US there is only “Two sexes”, He took off his passports with Paul “X”, forbidden Trans -women Compete in women’s sports and excluded trans -people from the armed forces.
Also opposed state policy diversity, justice and inclusion, Forcing numerous companies to abandon these obligations or to soften their positions in order to correspond to their positions.
On the other side of the human rights continent LGBTIC V Argentina They also cross the marking failure from arrival to power Javier Miley In December 2023. Delimitation of key organisms, such as The Ministry of Women, genres and diversity and National Institute against Discrimination, xenophobia and racism (Inadi) He deepened the institutional vacuum in this matter.
In addition, discriminatory speeches against dissident identity from representatives of the leader himself, such as statements Miley, When he associated homosexuality with pedophilia, they feed the climate of violence and crimes on the basis of hatred.
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According to the message National Observatory of Crimes of Hatred LGBTIC+ Argentina, In 2024, attacks on public roads increased by 53 %, and the murders almost doubled, reaching 140 cases.
Forcible statements not only from conservative governments: in 2024, the Prosecutor General Venezuela, Tareka William Saab, described the trans -people like “Human aberration”The statement that caused strong condemnation by human rights activists.
Even in relatively guaranteed countries and with the government in favor Lybtik rights Like Chile, organization Movilh In 2024, he condemned failures as a refusal to typify the murders of trance women as Feminicide. All this, with an increase in accusations of discrimination by 78.7% compared to the previous year.
Against, Cuban parliament In July, he considers reform in the law on the civil registry, which includes, among other things, the possibility that the Cuban can change the floor without the need for an operation or court order. Bye Ecuador It has a similar regulation approved last year.
IN Colombia, Congress processes Trans -integral law, Which seeks to establish specific access routes for healthcare, education and decent employment for this population.
With information EFE.
