📌 Social and political context

In Europe, the United States, and Latin America, the rise of anti-LGBTIQ+ rhetoric and the dismantling of human rights policies have led to an alarming increase in attacks and hate-motivated crimes. The UN has warned about the global spread of hate speech and its normalization on social media and in public discourse.

In Argentina, since December 2023, the national government has rolled back diversity policies: it eliminated the Ministry of Women, Genders, and Diversity; shut down the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Racism (INADI); banned inclusive language; and drastically cut the budget allocated to gender policies. Additionally, it has intensified its attacks against journalists, people with disabilities, retirees, women, and opposition groups.

These institutional actions and discriminatory statements – such as those of the president himself at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2025, where he falsely linked ‘gender ideology’ to child sexual abuse have legitimized a climate of intolerance that translates into real violence. Symbolic violence that dehumanizes LGBTIQ+ people is not an opinion: it is the breeding ground for hate crimes.

⚠️  The violence against the LGBT+ community is on the rise

According to the National Observatory of LGBT+ Hate Crimes, between January 1 and June 30, 2025, 102 violent hate-motivated attacks were recorded, representing a 70% increase compared to the same period in 2024.

– 17 people died as a direct consequence of hate violence – including murders, deaths due to structural exclusion, or suicides – and 85 suffered injuries affecting their physical integrity.
– 70.6% of the victims were trans women, 16.7% cis gay men, and 6.9% lesbians.
– 54% of the attacks occurred in institutional confinement settings, such as police stations and prisons – the State was involved either directly or through omission in more than half of these cases.
– The predominant form of violence was physical violence: beatings (in more than 57% of cases), stabbings, gunshots, strangulation, among others, surpassing for the first time in 9 years structural violence.

🧨 Violence is not an opinion

Hate speech that dehumanizes and stigmatizes people for their gender identity or sexual orientation is not just an opinion when it legitimizes violence and enables attacks that leave irreversible victims. In Argentina, that logic has already caused 17 deaths in just six months.

📣  Take action now!

We are facing an imminent loss of democratic values. Hate doesn’t just hurt – it kills. This is not just an LGBT+ cause: it is a cause for equality, justice, and democracy. If you believe living without fear is a human right, sign this petition and demand that legislators act now.

Call it what it is: hate. And it has to stop!