Leslie Rocha is the second known Mexican trans woman to have been murdered within the last week after she was killed in Cuidad Juarez on Saturday 5 September.
Another trans woman, Mireya Rodriguez Lemus, was murdered earlier in the week in the town of Aquiles Serdan, leading a transgender civil society group to protest in demand for greater governmental protection of the Mexican trans community.An anonymous trans woman in Cuidad Juarez told Reuters the events have left the trans community ‘terrified’ to go out onto the streets of Mexico, adding ‘we don’t know what to do anymore because there are so many hate crimes against the trans population’.