The Civil and Instruction Section of the Court of Instance of Novelda (Alicante) has initiated proceedings to clarify whether a possible hate crime has been committed in the case of a trans young woman who committed suicide at the age of 21 in 2022 and who, according to reports, was buried by her family in a mausoleum in the Aspe cemetery with the name and photograph prior to her transition.
This was explained by the president of the association in defense of trans rights Euforia Familias Trans-Aliadas, Natalia Aventín. In statements to Europa Press, she indicated that the case has been opened recently and that, after filing the complaint with the Prosecutor's Office, the public ministry chose to transfer the matter to the court.
Aventín recounted that a friend of the deceased contacted the organization in November 2022 to alert them about what happened and that, since then, they initiated a procedure in order to "restore dignity" to the young woman, "repair the damage done to her in life and also after her death." She pointed out that it is a "long process" in which they have suffered "many absences of responses."
The person in charge of Euforia Familias Trans-Aliadas specified that the young woman was born in Chile and was adopted by a family that brought her to Spain. At the age of ten, she tried to explain to her surroundings that she was a girl, but at that moment, "they began to reject her" and even decided to "take her to conversion therapy." Later, she added, the Government of Cantabria, where they resided, assumed her guardianship during her adolescence until she turned 18, at which point, now of legal age, she chose to move to Madrid to start a "new life."
According to Aventín, the young woman "could not bear the social pressure" or the "family rejection" and, "in a moment of desperation" and finding herself "without any support," took her own life. The president of the association hopes that the matter will have judicial progress and public visibility so that situations like this "do not happen again."