Breathe
By Claudia Pérez Atamoros
If you are a cisgender or transgender woman, you will still feel that they are breathing down your neck every day of your life; if you are a woman, the word is propitious to insult you, the fist to hit you and machismo to kill you. In the first nine months of the year there have been 2,026 victims of intentional homicide in the country and 695 femicides.
In Mexico, as of September of this year, more than 55 trans women have been victims of transfeminicides, with Mexico City being the city where most of them have been committed. The national territory is considered worldwide as the second nation where more trans femicides are committed in the world.
We all know well, very well, what fear, mistreatment, discrimination, violence in all its splendor is: sexual, labor, family, verbal and disguised... exercised against ourselves or in our environment, in our neighborhood, in our country. The enemy is at home. Call it home or nation.
The National Shelter Network reported that so far this year, 24,000 women and their children have been forced to flee from male violence and live in shelters.
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