Abstract
This work describes the violence and suffering experienced by travestis from Buenos Aires in their daily contexts, because of their gender identity and drogue abuse. For this purpose, an analytical and descriptive work is carried out where qualitative and quantitative researches are articulated. Although travestis, through organization and political struggle, has claimed and managed to get their right to identity, this work focuses on the way violence affects their lives, materializes in their bodies and in the violations of their human rights, specifically physical integrity (through the so-called "hate crimes") and the access to health. On the other hand, it is problematized the way in which the police arrest travestis arbitrarily for alleged crimes related to transgressions to Law 23.737.