A Window on the reality of transgender women in El Salvador

Jan 28, 2022 | Woman, Own resources, Awareness-raising

The main victims of the most violent crimes in El Salvador are trans women, whose life expectancy is 33 years.

Since 1994, more than 600 people from this community have been violently murdered.

Of the more than 100 cases of murders reported against the LGTBIQ+ community since that year, only 11% has been brought to trial.

These are just some of the data collected by this study, which is part of the project Visibility and defense of Human Rights activists in the framework of protection of the rights of the LGTBIQ+ collective in El Salvador, financed by the Department of Participation, Transparency, Cooperation and Democratic Quality of the Generalitat Valenciana.

Its main purpose is show an x-ray of the reality of trans women in El Salvador from a human rights approach, which reflects the situation of discrimination and violence exercised against this group, as well as their struggles and resistance against a system of strong heteropatriarchal construction, which reproduces inequality through sociocultural patterns, subordination and discrimination against women.

Although El Salvador has ratified various international treaties that grant implicit and explicit protections to people belonging to the LGTBIQ+ community, a series of problems currently persist. obstacles aimed at restricting the legal capacity of trans women and limiting their ownership and access to civil rights, social, economic, political and cultural. This situation is aggravated by social prejudices and misconceptions about transsexuality that prevail in Salvadoran society.

Foundation for Justice, an entity that has been working for the promotion and defense of human rights for more than 25 years, leaves a record in this report of the main findings in terms of discrimination and violation of rights, at the same time that it compiles, from a human dignity approach, murders and hate crimes which as of the date of writing this document remain unpunished.

Is about an exercise not only to honor the memory of the victims, but to take another step in making brutal violence visible, harassment, discrimination and violation of rights to which trans women are subjected in El Salvador, thereby aspiring to acquire a certain commitment and citizen involvement in demanding an end to violence.

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