Alejandra Menjívar

Alejandra Menjívar Guadrón (born 1985)

For the 2021 legislative and municipal elections, she ran as a candidate for the Central American Parliament for the FMLN, thus becoming the first Salvadoran trans person to run for elected office. During the campaign, she expressed support for issues such as a gender identity law, the decriminalization of abortion, same-sex marriage, and the rights of migrants and Afro-Salvadorans.

In June 2021, Menjívar was kidnapped while in Mexico and reappeared a few days later. She also announced that she had suffered violence during her abduction and that she would seek political asylum in Mexico, given the threats and attacks she had suffered in El Salvador. After that, she migrated to Canada.

Views Menjívar is a critic of the government of President Nayib Bukele. She is also an activist for LGBTQ rights, women's rights, rights of people with HIV, sexual and reproductive rights, environmental rights, and trade union rights.

Personal life She is also nicknamed Aleja.