Jesús Ociel Baena made history a year ago when they were sworn in as the first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial post in Mexico.
On Monday, Mx. Baena, who uses they/them pronouns, and their partner were found dead inside their home, stirring calls from Mexico’s L.G.B.T.Q.
community to determine if the magistrate had been targeted for promoting the rights of nonbinary people. The authorities in the state of Aguascalientes, where Mx.
Baena, 38, was a magistrate on the electoral court, have said that their 37-year-old partner, Dorian Herrera, appeared to have killed them with a razor blade before dying by suicide.