Dayana Hernández González
Age 40 (born 15 Jul 1983)1 Jul 2024
San José (Costa Rica)
Cosmetic filler complications
Dayana died from long-term complications caused by biopolymer injections. She was an activist, and the first trans woman to stand as a deputy to the Legislative Assembly in 2018.
Dayana Hernández González (San José, July 15, 1983 - July 1, 2024) was a trans consultant on issues related to access to health, STIs and HIV, and a Costa Rican activist for transgender rights and human rights. She was the founder and director of the Transvida organization. In 2018, she was the first trans woman to be a candidate for deputy to the Legislative Assembly.
Within activism, Hernández was a reference person in the Country Coordinating Mechanism. She was also the national coordinator of REDLACTRANS, a member of the Trans Block Platform and a collaborator of UNAIDS. She was co-manager of the program "From the streets to the classrooms", which won the Award for Improvements to the Quality of Life of Costa Ricans and led the Diverse Companies project.
Born in San José, the capital of Costa Rica in 1983, she worked as a [sex worker] in the early 2000s, while also becoming involved in activism. In 2002, a doctor gave her biopolymer injections in her hips, breasts and buttocks, which caused her health problems. She was also a stylist, and studied English at the Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje, an aptitude that led her to get a job in a call center. She also studied Portuguese and computing.
In 2009, together with other colleagues, she founded Transvida, an organization dedicated to improving the living conditions of the Costa Rican trans population, especially the collective of trans women, through educational and medical care, as well as access to employment.
In 2016, she reported the Costa Rican Social Security Fund for negligence and gender violence when her search for medical attention was ignored, or she was a victim of deadnaming by health personnel.
In 2017, she announced her candidacy for the political party VAMOS for the position of deputy for the Legislative Assembly in the 2018 general elections, which made her the first trans woman to stand as a candidate for Congress. 2 She ran second on the list for the province of San José. She had to do so with her name and birth gender since there was no Costa Rican law that allows the registration of a change of sex on an identity document.
On May 1, 2018, she led a protest demanding a trans labor quota and regularization of sex work.
She passed away on July 1, 2024. Various Costa Rican and Latin American organizations paid tribute to her through their social media accounts.
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https://semanariouniversidad.com/opinion/que-pecadito-murio-una-mujer-trans/
https://www.crhoy.com/nacionales/fallece-dayana-hernandez-activista-trans-y-excandidata-a-diputada/
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayana_Hern%C3%A1ndez
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123884676
https://www.facebook.com/VamosCR/videos/369361963474462/
https://x.com/InfoOTRANS/status/1807803724909215808
https://x.com/REDLACTRANS/status/1807798168991535482
