Make the street in dictatorship Trans memories of state terrorism in Uruguay (1973-1985)

Abstract

From 1973 to 1985 a civic-military dictatorship took place in Uruguay. During that period many people suffered the consequences of the regime’s violence, such as persecution, incarceration, torture and assassination. During that period, trans women were subject to persecution by the agents of the regime, who considered them a moral and social degradation, unqualified lives that had to be contained and marginalized since they could not find place in their political project and to a large extent they were a threat to it. This article aims to account for the violence suffered by trans women in that period. It is based on testimonies of people who performed sex work in the street during the last Uruguayan dictatorship. The study situates the violence of the State towars the trans women as part of the State terrorism.