SACRAMENTO – State Sen. Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, joins the movement to raise awareness for mental health by recognizing several community leaders from the 21st Senate District whose work centers on advocating for individuals with mental illnesses and their families as May is Mental Health Awareness month.
Outraged by a long-ignored slaying in Honduras, lawyers are urging a human rights court in Central America to force governments to better protect transgender people in a region where they are targets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/world/americas/Honduras-transgender-rights.html
A transgender woman at the headquarters of Arcoíris, an association that works for L.G.B.T. rights, in Honduras.
As Old Murder Case Takes On New Life, Some Transgender People Dare Hope
A transgender woman at the headquarters of Arcoíris, an association that works for L.G.B.T. rights, in Honduras.Credit.
By Frances Robles
April 29, 2021
In a region where experts put the life expectancy for transgender women at only 30 to 35 years, Vicky Hernández didn’t make it even that long.
Ms. Hernández was 26 when she was found shot in the eye on a Honduras street, a slug of unknown caliber and a used condom beside her body.