Posted on 09/15/2023 7:59:02 AM PDT by Salman
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican transgender rights activists Kenya Cuevas and Andrea Luna sat in front of their longtime friend Paola Buenrostro’s pink grave in Mexico City.
“You don’t have to pay rent anymore. You will have your own home now,” Luna sadly joked to her late friend, a transgender woman slain in front of Cuevas in 2016.
Buenrostro will be the first woman to be moved to a mausoleum a short distance away entirely dedicated to transgender women that was inaugurated on Thursday. Many of the dead transgender women were victims of hate crimes.
Built in Iztapalapa, the most populous borough of Mexico’s capital, the burial site is the first one of its kind in the country. In some cases, no relatives claimed their bodies. Some died of natural causes, while others suffered violent deaths. Cuevas wanted them all to have a dignified resting place.
“Thank you Paola, because in your name we were able to reach an important milestone for the trans community,” Cuevas told a cheering crowd during the official inauguration.
Mexico currently has the world’s second highest toll after Brazil for the killings of transgender people, with 25 transgender women slain from January to July 2023, according to the LGBTQ+ rights group Letra S.
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Traditionally (70+ years ago), I imagine at least some Catholic cemetaries would have issues, and I imagine that these people would have issues with the Catholic cemetaries.
Sort of like the new segragated dorms.
I’m guessing he probably tried to force himself into a girl’s bathroom or something. Actions have consequences.
This will really confuse future archeologists.
A hateful society is one that fails to compassionately treat mental illness, but instead, encourages and enables this illness.
many of the killings alluded to, are “transgender” prostitutes.
Which should not minimize that they got murdered. But this is the fate of some so called trans prostitutes.
Future archeology site.
If future archeologists are anything like the ones today this site will have "religious & cultural significance".
Trans graves will be probably be described as those of priests or high born due to their burial cloths.
Something for other fake women to aspire to.
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