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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial
position in Mexico was found dead in their home Monday in the central
Mexican city of Aguascalientes after receiving death threats because of
their gender identity, authorities said.
The Aguascalientes state prosecutor’s office confirmed that Jesús Ociel
Baena was found dead Monday morning next to another person, who local
media and LGBTQ+ rights groups identified as their partner.
State prosecutor Jesús Figueroa Ortega said in a news conference that the
victims displayed injuries apparently caused by a knife or some other
sharp object.
“There are no signs or indications to be able to determine that a third
person other than the dead was at the site of the crime,” he said.
Mexico Security Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez said in a press briefing
that authorities were investigating the death and it remained unclear if
“it was a homicide or an accident.” Some murder investigations in Mexico
have a history of being quickly minimized by authorities as crimes of
passion.
Alejandro Brito, director of the LGBTQ+ rights group Letra S, said that
Baena’s visibility on social media made them a target and urged
authorities to take that context into consideration in their
investigation.
“They were a person who received many hate messages, and even threats of
violence and death, and you can’t ignore that in these investigations,”
Brito said. “They, the magistrate, was breaking through the invisible
barriers that closed in the nonbinary community.
Baena was among the most visible LGBTQ+ figures in a country where queer
communities are often violently targeted, and had already received death
threats.
Baena, an openly nonbinary person, made history in October 2022 when they
assumed the role as magistrate for the Aguascalientes state electoral
court. They were believed to be the first in Latin America to assume a
judicial position. In June Baena broke through another barrier when they
were among a group of people to be issued Mexico’s first nonbinary
passports.
Baena would regularly publish photos and videos of themselves in skirts,
heels and toting a rainbow fan in court offices and advocating on social
media platforms with hundreds of thousands of followers.
“I am a nonbinary person, I am not interested in being seen as either a
woman or a man. This is an identity. It is mine, for me, and nobody else”
Baena posted on X, formerly Twitter, in June. “Accept it.”
Just weeks before their death, Baena was presented with a certificate by
the electoral court recognizing them with gender neutral pronouns as a
“maestre,” a significant step in Spanish, a language that historically
splits the language between two genders, male and female.
While Brito said Mexico has made significant steps in reducing levels of
anti-LGBTQ+ violence in recent decades, his group registered a significant
uptick in such violence in 2019, documenting at least 117 lesbian, gay and
bisexual and transgender people killed in the country. Many were grisly
killings, including brutal stabbings and public slayings.
Brito said he worried that the death of Baena could provoke further acts
of violence against queer communities.
“If this was a crime motivated by prejudice, these kinds of crimes always
have the intention of sending a message,” Brito said. “The message is an
intimidation, it’s to say: ‘This is what could happen to you if you make
your identities public.’”
https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-jesus-ociel-baena-mexico-hate-crime-
9a30d300cefa162c2f81a6d85a29c36f
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial
position in Mexico was found dead in their home Monday in the central
Mexican city of Aguascalientes after receiving death threats because of
their gender identity, authorities said.
The Aguascalientes state prosecutor’s office confirmed that Jesús Ociel
Baena was found dead Monday morning next to another person, who local
media and LGBTQ+ rights groups identified as their partner.
State prosecutor Jesús Figueroa Ortega said in a news conference that the
victims displayed injuries apparently caused by a knife or some other
sharp object.
“There are no signs or indications to be able to determine that a third
person other than the dead was at the site of the crime,” he said.
Mexico Security Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez said in a press briefing
that authorities were investigating the death and it remained unclear if
“it was a homicide or an accident.” Some murder investigations in Mexico
have a history of being quickly minimized by authorities as crimes of
passion.
Alejandro Brito, director of the LGBTQ+ rights group Letra S, said that
Baena’s visibility on social media made them a target and urged
authorities to take that context into consideration in their
investigation.
“They were a person who received many hate messages, and even threats of
violence and death, and you can’t ignore that in these investigations,”
Brito said. “They, the magistrate, was breaking through the invisible
barriers that closed in the nonbinary community.
Baena was among the most visible LGBTQ+ figures in a country where queer
communities are often violently targeted, and had already received death
threats.
Baena, an openly nonbinary person, made history in October 2022 when they
assumed the role as magistrate for the Aguascalientes state electoral
court. They were believed to be the first in Latin America to assume a
judicial position. In June Baena broke through another barrier when they
were among a group of people to be issued Mexico’s first nonbinary
passports.
Baena would regularly publish photos and videos of themselves in skirts,
heels and toting a rainbow fan in court offices and advocating on social
media platforms with hundreds of thousands of followers.
“I am a nonbinary person, I am not interested in being seen as either a
woman or a man. This is an identity. It is mine, for me, and nobody else”
Baena posted on X, formerly Twitter, in June. “Accept it.”
Just weeks before their death, Baena was presented with a certificate by
the electoral court recognizing them with gender neutral pronouns as a
“maestre,” a significant step in Spanish, a language that historically
splits the language between two genders, male and female.
While Brito said Mexico has made significant steps in reducing levels of
anti-LGBTQ+ violence in recent decades, his group registered a significant
uptick in such violence in 2019, documenting at least 117 lesbian, gay and
bisexual and transgender people killed in the country. Many were grisly
killings, including brutal stabbings and public slayings.
Brito said he worried that the death of Baena could provoke further acts
of violence against queer communities.
“If this was a crime motivated by prejudice, these kinds of crimes always
have the intention of sending a message,” Brito said. “The message is an
intimidation, it’s to say: ‘This is what could happen to you if you make
your identities public.’”
https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-jesus-ociel-baena-mexico-hate-crime-
9a30d300cefa162c2f81a6d85a29c36f
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