Murder of Transgender Woman Found in Guanajuato Investigated as Hate Crime GayNZ.com
go to original July 29, 2016

Vallarta-born Paulett won the 2015 Gay Beauty Queen award in the state of Nayarit (Facebook)

The burnt body of 24-year-old Paulett Gonzalez was found by Police in Celaya, Guanajuato a month after she went missing in the nearby city of Irapuato.

Due to the extent of the burns, Spanish language outlet laSexta reports that DNA testing was needed in order to confirm her identity.

Just last year, Gonzalez had been crowned the winner of Mexico’s Gay Beauty Queen pageant.

According to Transgender Europe’s Trans Murder Monitoring project, between 2008-2014 the number of transgender people reported to have been murdered in Mexico was 194.

See the original at GayNZ.com

Related: Transgender Beauty Queen's Burned Body Found Dumped in Mexico a Month After She Disappeared (Daily Mail)

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