Luis Alberto Ramos was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday afternoon for murdering Tehuel de la Torre, a 23-year-old trans man.

De la Torre went missing in Buenos Aires Province in 2021 after going out to a supposed job interview. His case became emblematic of the trans-travesti community’s demands for justice. The trial was Argentina’s first for the murder of a trans man. (Unlike its direct English translation, travesti in Argentina is a gender identity with deep political roots that is worn with pride.)

“It’s a historic ruling,” Cristian Ariel González, one of the lawyers of Tehuel’s family, told the Herald. “It means calling things by their name — it was a trans-homicide.”

Three judges at the court in La Plata convicted Ramos of aggravated homicide, motivated by hatred of gender identity and sexual orientation. Ramos was considered a repeat offender........

© Buenos Aires Herald