Mexico, infamous for transgender killings, opens exclusive burial sites

Mexico City has inaugurated a burial site for transgender women, who have often been victims of violent hate crimes in the country. The mausoleum has pops of colour and looks different from traditional burial sites, which are usually more dull.

It will have space for 149 transgender women, out of which 12 spots will soon be filled as bodies are exhumed from graves.

Mexico currently has the world's second highest toll after Brazil for the killings of transgender people, with 25 transgender women slain from January to July 2023, according to the LGBTQ+ rights group Letra S.

From 2017 to July 2023, at least 586 murders of LGBTQ+ people were recorded by the group. More than 58% were transgender women.

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Built-in Iztapalapa, the most populous borough of Mexico's capital, the burial site is the first one of its kind in the country. In some cases, no relatives claimed their bodies. Some died of natural causes, while others suffered violent deaths.

(With AP inputs)