Dozens demonstrate in Barcelona for transgender rights and declare war against cis-system

Around one hundred people took to the streets in Barcelona on Sunday midday to call for transgender rights and to remember murdered Colombian trans woman, Sara Millerey.

Millerey was brutally murdered in Medellín, Colombia, in early April, when she was found, still alive, in a river, with all her arms and legs broken. She did not survive her injuries in the hospital.

"We are not here to call for our rights," activists of the Furia Travesti civil society organization chanted on Sunday at Plaça Universitat.

"We do not want what the system is offering us; we declare war against the Cis-system and all that it implies," they added.

The rally, which began at Plaça Universitat before proceeding to Plaça Catalunya, also highlighted that "we are not all of us, we are the only ones left," they said to remember the Colombian woman and all trans people in Catalonia, Spain, and internationally.

Some of the chants heard called to abolish conversion therapies and to regulate people who are in irregular conditions.