Noticias Telemundo

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Latino families with trans minors fear new laws limiting medical treatment: ‘It’s what’s kept my daughter alive’

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As a 7-year-old, Adelyn Vigil believed death was the way to be able to live as a girl.  Adelyn’s nightly prayer to God was to become a bird to be able to fly, then die and then be made into a girl.  “I was crying and I told her: ‘Oh, but mom, it’s going to take a long time, because first I have to die as a boy and then as a bird and then be a girl,” Adelyn, 14, told Noticias Telemundo about the conversation with her mother years earlier.  “The only thing I could say without crying was: […]

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‘We live in fear’: Over 6,000 migrants in Mexico have been violently attacked

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Yorje Pérez Moreno traveled thousands of miles from Venezuela to reach Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, leaving his family, friends and studies, as he fled the violence of state security forces who allegedly persecuted him for participating in anti-government protests. “My dream was to finish college, but they wouldn’t let me. They beat me, chased me and threatened to imprison me, that’s why I had to leave,” Pérez Moreno, 23, said.  He said that in early August, when he was finally a few miles from the U.S. border, he took a taxi with a friend who accompanied him to request asylum at the […]

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‘We are invisible’: Discrimination and risks multiply for Indigenous LGBTQ in Mexico

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Wilter Gómez was 12 years old when his stepfather took him from his hometown in Gracias a Dios, Honduras, to the jungle. After walking for hours on remote trails, the man began to beat him repeatedly.  “He wanted me to disappear,” Gómez said bitterly. His stepfather threw him and left him in a ditch full of water, but the intense pain from the beatings caused Gómez to wake up, saving him from drowning. He never returned to his Gracias a Dios home. “My only sin was being who I am, a gay person. My people are very discriminated against because we don’t speak Spanish […]