Mexico City, Mexico has passed a local law banning murders against transgender women, a practice referred to in the country as transfemicidio (transfemicide). Murderers convicted under the law would face between 35 to 70 years in prison. The new law was named in memory of Paola Buenrostro, a trans sex worker who was murdered in 2016. The law passed almost unaninmously in the state’s Congress, with 47 votes for it and three votes against it. “[Buenrostro’s] memory continues to be a symbol of the fight for the rights and dignity of trans women in Mexico and beyond borders,” Deputy Gabriela Quiroga Anguiano said in a statement after the law’s successful congressional vote.