Risk Demarcation and the Exercise of Power against Trans Women, Sex Workers, in Manizales, Colombia

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to investigate the administrative and legal frameworks that drove the legal harassment against trans sex workers between 2015 and 2019 in Manizales. The research was developed from the case study, assuming feminist epistemological approaches and using the document review technique, based on the conceptual approaches of genocidal social practices. Conclusions: 1) from the Colombian State, guidelines were developed that promoted discriminatory actions against trans women in the legal level, 2) the simultaneous criminalization of trans sex workers sought to generate cracks on the population group, and 3) “pinkwashing” was used to cover up systematic human rights violations.