Authorities in Puerto Rico have declared a state of emergency due to the high levels of gender-based violence, which is disproportionately affecting trans people and women.
Authorities in Puerto Rico have declared a state of emergency due to the high levels of gender-based violence, which is disproportionately affecting trans people and women.
Tyianna “Davarea” Alexander, a 28-year-old black trans woman, and Samuel Edmund Damián Valentín, a trans man living in Puerto Rico, are the first American trans people to have been killed in acts of violence this year.
Puerto Rico’s Medicaid program, which assists those who are not able to afford healthcare, will now cover transition related care.
Puerto Rican trans woman Nicole López, 33, was hospitalised on Thursday 8 October after being beaten and stabbed in the latest incident of violence against the trans community on the island.
Michellyn Ramos Vargas, 35, is the sixth known trans person to have been murdered in Puerto Rico this year.
Puerto Rican trans activist Soraya Santiago has died at 73 due to cancer- she was the first person from Puerto Rico to undergo gender-reassignment surgery.
Two arrested for murder of transgender women in Puerto Rico
