Diana Sacayán
Diana Sacayán | |
|---|---|
Diana Sacayán in 2010 | |
| Born | 31 December 1975 Tucumán, Argentina |
| Died | 11 October 2015 (aged 39) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Cause of death | Homicide |
| Resting place | Lar de Paz Cemetery, González Catán |
| Occupation | Travesti activist |
| Years active | 2001 – 2015 |
| Organization(s) | Anti-Discrimination Movement of Liberation (MAL), founder ILGA, leader INADI, member: 270 |
| Known for | Diana Sacayán Law [es] Diana Sacayán – Lohana Berkins Law |
| Political party | Communist (before 2011) Independent (2011–2015) |
Amancay Diana Sacayán (31 December 1975 – 11 October 2015) was an Argentinian LGBT and human rights activist who fought for the legal rights of travesti and transgender people in Argentina.
She founded the Anti-Discrimination Movement of Liberation (MAL) and was part of the National Front for the Gender Identity Act in Argentina during public debate on Law 26,743 on Gender Identity. In June 2012, she became the first trans person to run for Ombudsman, running for La Matanza Partido. On 2 July 2012, she became the first Argentine trans person to receive a national identity card affirming her gender. It was handed to her by then-President Cristina Kirchner.
Sacayán was murdered on 11 October 2015. On 18 June 2018, Oral Criminal Court 4 of Buenos Aires convicted one of her murderers, handing down a judgement that recognized, for the first time in the Argentine criminal justice system, the murder of a travesti as a hate crime involving gender identity. Provisions in Article 80, paragraph 4 of the Penal Code of Argentina were applied in reaching the decision. However, that aspect of the grisly murder was nullified in a decision by the National Chamber of Cassation in Criminal and Correctional Matters on 2 October 2020, though the sentence of life imprisonment was upheld.