NGOs document cases of violence against people of sexual diversity

Mexico City. Given the lack of official data, more than 60 civil organizations came together to document the murders, disappearances, attacks and suicides against people of sexual diversity in the country. In total, from 2019 to October 1, 2024, they have a record of 672 cases of this type of violence.

When presenting the Crímenes LGBTI+ MX website, Kenlly Pacheco, coordinator of the National Observatory of Hate Crimes against LGBTI+ People, warned that an increase in the incidence of these crimes was identified, which “sounds an alarm.”

He detailed in 2019, they detected 87 cases of violence; in 2020, 107; in 2021, 119, and in 2022, 126. He indicated that although in 2023 they decreased and there were 92 cases, as of October 1, 2024, there is a record of at least 141.

In a press conference, he pointed out that the states with the highest incidence are Veracruz (107), Chihuahua (54), Baja California (51) and CDMX (50).

The National Observatory of Hate Crimes against LGBTI+ People, created in 2019 by the Arcoiris Foundation, enabled an interactive map in which precise information can be found on documented cases of violence at the national level against people of sexual diversity, including those who “They are not media people.” They are classified by murders, disappearances, attacks and suicides.

So far in 2024, there has been a record of 55 murders of trans women, 20 of gay men, two of lesbian women, one bisexual person and one muxe person, which is the case of Mayte López, in Oaxaca on the 1st of October.

In its statistics, the Observatory includes a section on disappearances, which records 17 records of trans women, 11 homosexual men, six lesbian women and two trans men throughout the country.

Likewise, there are 19 known attacks against members of these populations, he mentioned.

Kenlly Pacheco stressed that the information is constantly updated. Furthermore, he insisted that people from this community face “a general panorama of violence and discrimination,” due to the “lack of political will” to consider the LGBT population as a priority within government actions.