In Argentina, a prominent LGBT activist has been found dead in her Buenos Aires apartment on Tuesday. Diana Sacayan is the third transgender woman to have been murdered in Argentina over the last month. In 2012, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner personally gave Sacayan a national identification card recognizing her as a woman. President Kirchner called for an investigation into her death Wednesday.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: “In honor of a woman, Diana Sacayan, who was the first trans woman to whom I bestowed identification documents, who was murdered in Buenos Aires, I ask for cooperation between the national security forces and the metropolitan police to quickly get to the bottom of this terrible crime.”