Hate crimes targeting members of Argentina's LGBT+ community increased 70 percent in the first half of 2025, an NGO which tracks such attacks announced Monday.
Between January and June, the Observatorio Nacional de Crímenes de Odio LGBT+ (“National Observatory of LGBT+ Hate Crimes”) documented 102 attacks on people because of their sexuality, gender expression or gender identity – a 70 percent increase over the same period in 2024.
Some 70 percent of the victims were trans women, the observatory said, followed by gay men (16.7 percent), lesbians (6.9 percent), trans men (4.9 percent) and non-binary people (one percent).
Of the total number of cases, 16.7 percent were violations of the right to life (murders, deaths due to structural violence and suicides), while the remaining 83.3 percent were due to violations of the right to physical integrity (situations of physical violence that did not necessarily result in death, including suicide attempts).
Sixty-eight percent of cases were concentrated in Buenos Aires Province, the most populous region in the country.
The report's authors pointed the finger at President Javier Milei, accusing him of having whipped up anti-LGBT sentiment and depicting the community as a "social enemy."
The report notes that the data “cannot be analysed outside the political and discursive context in which they are produced.”
At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, President Milei launched a broadside against what he called the "cancer" of "progressive ideology," including what he dubbed "radical feminism" and "gender ideology."
A month later he followed a number of countries in banning gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy for minors.
– TIMES/AFP
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