he State of Mexico An important step has been taken in protecting human rights Transient population By agreeing to the classification Feminist As a crime, with penalties that can reach 93 years and four months in prison.
This reform, promoted by Rep Luisa Esmeralda Navarro Hernandez As a black woman, she doesn’t just strive to be visible Hate crimes violence against gender diversity, but also ensures effective access to justice.
Amendment to the Penal Code of the State of Mexico, which includes estimates from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Enigi) There are between 85 thousand and 170 thousand Transgender people In the entity, female transport kill is defined as an act Depriving a trans woman of her life Or to a person whose gender identity or gender expression is recognized as a woman, when the reason is specifically that gender identity or gender expression, in the context of discrimination.
The legislative document details this, at least in 2020 16 murders of transgender people In the state, it determines the penalties Imprisonment from 40 to 70 years And who A fine from 700 to 5 thousand per day Who committed this crime?
Penalties will be increased by up to a third if you are the victim Underage Or if the person responsible is a person Government employee who used his position to commit the crime, which increases the maximum penalty to 93 years and four months in prison and up to 6 thousand and 666 days fine. Furthermore, in applicable cases, the responsible person will lose his or her civil and family rights in relation to the victim, including inheritance rights.
During the trading session, Esmeralda Navarro He stressed the importance of this reform by saying: “It is not limited to combating the killing of women only Real name“But it is committed to fighting the impunity that has robbed us of our existence for so many years.”
Navarro celebrated that the State of Mexico had become the state The sixth entity in the country to acknowledge this crime He thanked the governor for the support Delfina Gomez Alvarez And from the MP Jose Francisco Vasquez RodriguezChairman of the Political Coordination Council, for his support of the gender diverse community.
The ruling stipulates that reasons for gender identity or expression will be taken into account when the victim is present Signs of sexual violence Of any kind, slanderous, offensive or DistortionWhether before or after deprivation of life, or exposure to acts Necrophilia.
Furthermore, antecedents or indicators Domestic violenceOr institutional, political, societal, work or school practiced by the perpetrator, as well as the existence of emotional, affective, dependent or trusting relationships between the victim and the perpetrator.
Other assumptions included in the reform cover kinship Kinship, rapprochement also civilian; Displaying, displaying, depositing or leaving a dead body in public places; Publish, publish, or transfer the crime or the victim’s body via any information or communications technology; And existence Signs of cruelty Related to the victim’s gender identity or expression, whether on her person or on personal items that are distinctive of said identity.
Reasons Gender identity or expression When there is testimony or evidence that the assailant used expressions of rejection or hatred toward the victim because of her gender identity or expression, or when the victim is stripped of distinctive elements of her identity or when her personal items are replaced with objects of the opposite sex, or if the assailant explicitly justifies the crime on the basis of gender identity or expression.
And in deliberation the representatives Paula Jimenez Hernandez, Zaira Cedillo Silva, Selena Trujillo Arizmendi and Itzel Daniela Ballesteros lolAnd so do the representatives Edgar Samuel Rios Moreno, Roman Francisco Cortes Lugo and Octavio Martinez Vargasthey are all dark-haired, next to the legislator Yarely Anay Esparza Acevedo From the Labor Party, he agreed on the urgent need for legislation to protect the historically abused sector. They stressed that the designation of murders of trans women constitutes an acknowledgment of and response to the violence that gender diversity faces in today’s society.
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