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By Irene Escudero Bogota, Jul 2 (EFE).- Known in their native language as “wërapara” (“not women”), the trans women of the Embera indigenous people of northwestern Colombia are speaking out against discrimination. “To be a trans indigenous person in the community sometimes causes me shame,” Roxana Panchi, who lives on the Embera reserve of Karmata …
On June 25, the world woke up in mourning for a terrorist attack in Oslo in which 2 people died and 20 were injured. Attacks on the LGBTIQ+ community show that it is a chronic problem, on which we must take action.
Brigitte Baptiste has a high profile as a transgender Colombian woman and an ecologist – in a country where both are targeted
In a single day in Colombia, three trans and non-binary people were slain, capturing the 'systematic' violence the community knows too well.
M: We receive regular information from the Trans Community Network, which works closely with trans women who have been deprived of their liberty and also with transmigrant women. Unfortunately, as we said at the beginning of the interview, there is a monopoly of organizations, not only in Ecuador but throughout the region, that place themselves as pro-LGBTI or pro-trans federations, but they only make profits on the deaths of people and they only gather information that is publicly available. But they do not go beyond that, in other words, they do not follow up on the issue of compensation an...