Remembering Our Dead

Claudia Díaz Pérez

Claudia was found with head injuries in her home. Her death is being investigated as a possible murder and hate crime.

Prominent Chilean transgender activist Claudia Díaz Pérez, 73, was found dead in her home in the country’s Valparaíso Province on Sunday. Police are investigating her death as a possible murder and hate crime.

A police spokesperson told Chilean newspaper El Líder that Pérez had been injured in a way that indicated another party may have been responsible. Pérez reportedly suffered a frontal head injury that caused her death within 24 hours.

Pérez was the president of “Club de Adultos Mayores Sobrevivientes del 73,” or Club for Older Adult Survivors of ’73 — Chile’s first organization for older trans people, named in reference to former military dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte’s brutal 1973 coup. Pérez was also a member of another trans organization, Sindicato Afrodita (Aphrodite Syndicate), as well as a former manager for amateur football club Cartagena Atlético; as a career, she operated the hair salon Peluquería Salón Claudita Unisex.

A suspect was arrested the following month.

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Report added: 18 Dec 2022. Last updated: 9 Nov 2023

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