Area residents gathered Tuesday, November 25, 2025 in downtown San Antonio on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in solidarity with a global movement decrying femicide, transfemicide, and homophobic murders. At the Catrinas March and Rally to Stop Femicide in San Antonio, attendees sang, chanted, marched, grieved, danced, and shared research highlighting startling rates of such local violence.
In a press release, Mujeres Marcharan states that the rally was modeled on a mobilization started in Mexico City
“to memorialize women victims of femicide, mainly organized by sex workers and transgender women, who are particularly targeted by perpetrators.”
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At this critical response, promoted as the first event of many more to come, organizers shared preliminary research finding that “the femicide rate [in San Antonio, Texas] is 4.7 per 100,000 women, the same as Honduras, which is the country with the highest rate of femicide in the world.”
A report, “Mujeres Marcharan Report on Femicide and Gender-Based Violence Crimes in Texas 2025,” was released a few days later.
In it, the authors state their primary goal of making visible “the severity of the problem of femicide/feminicide and extreme gender violence in Texas, and especially in San Antonio.” It also highlights a key criteria of the group’s campaign: challenging the failure of police agencies and local governments to categorize, and thereby track, gender-related female homicides.
“Despite the high prevalence of female murder victimization in the United States, the country lags behind other nations in defining and documenting gender-related female homicides, and deficient surveillance systems limit efforts to estimate the annual incidence of femicide,” the authors write.
Last week, supporters appeared before San Antonio City Council with calls for the City of San Antonio and Bexar County to acknowledge and investigate the killings of women and female children as femicide and register the murders as gender-based violence, among other demands.
The data set used to compile local femicide statistics accounts for crimes committed between January 1, 2025, and November 25, 2025. It is available online for review.
Deceleration has not independently reviewed the methodology informing the report’s comparisons with femicide rates of other nations.
