[3] However, that aspect of the grisly murder was nullified in a decision by the National Chamber of Cassation in Criminal and Correctional Matters on 2 October 2020, though the sentence of life imprisonment was upheld.

[9] One of the main goals of the group is to emphasize empowering LGBTI persons through meeting basic human rights, from employment training and certification programs[16] to the establishment of a health office for both mental and physical healthcare needs in the LGBT community in both Morón[17] and La Matanza.

[18] Sacayán and MAL regularly worked to overcome the idea of prostitution being a viable and genuine career[19] rather than a direct result of a lack of employment opportunities.

[20] The tenets of inclusion of travesti, transsexual, and transgender persons eventually led to the creation of the National Gender Identity Law.

[25] Despite the right enshrined in Article 14a of the National Constitution, transgender, transsexual and travesti persons were denied inclusion in the Federal Housing Plan under President Cristina Kirchner's administration.

[25] Alongside Berkins' Association for the Struggle for Travesti and Transsexual Identity (ALITT),[26] Sacayán also helped establish the Silvia Rivera cooperative, a group focused on training members of the trans community for careers in the food service and catering industry.

[27] She also worked alongside Marlene Wayar, the founder of El Teje – the first transvestite newspaper in Latin America – and Secretary of Employment Enrique Deibe to train 500 teachers and education administrators on diversity.

[28] Sacayán had also worked with Deibe in September 2011[29] in promoting an event at which she was able to impress upon the nearly 200 attendees the need for travesti, transsexuals, and transgender persons to have access to traditional employment.

[28] After the vicious and brutal attack on Nahuel Albornoz in 2014 in Virrey del Pino, Sacayán – on behalf of MAL – and the group Youth for Diversity (JxD) petitioned for the creation of a division to address the inequalities LGBT persons experience which would also serve to education the community on their rights and actively work towards reducing the stigma associated with being LGBT in Argentina by addressing prejudices derived from erroneous myths.

[36] When she was arrested alongside her sister Johana on 10 July 2004,[37] the feminist socialist group Bread and Roses [es] supported her actions.

[38] Supporters from multiple groups – a total of at least 4,000 people – gathered in the Plaza de Mayo and demanded the release of several prisoners who had been held solely for political reasons.

[37] On 9 July 2015, while Sacayán and fellow trans activist Sonia Pamela Díaz waited to board the Metrobús, someone walking past spat insults at them and began to physically assault them.

[43] Activists continued to protest the following year when the case remained unsolved; the first national march against killing of tranvestites, beginning at the Plaza de Mayo and ending at the Congress building, took place on 28 June 2016.

[52] On 2 October 2020, the National Chamber of Cassation in Criminal and Correctional Matters confirmed Marino's conviction; however, they removed the transvesticide aspect, stating only that it was aggravated violence based on Sacayán's gender.

[32] In his decision, Judge Jorge Luis Rimondi commented that the cuts to Sacayán's breasts did not indicate an intent to convey a message regarding her gender identity.

[1] He also cited a lack of any previous report from Sacayán that Marino had expressed transphobic views and that the murder did not occur on a significant date for the LGBT community as grounds to rescind the travesti specific aspect of the judgement.

[56] On 11 June 2021, the Argentine Chamber of Deputies approved the Diana Sacayán – Lohana Berkins Law, enacting the 1% quota on a national level.

[59] On 11 October 2023, Casa Rosada, the official workplace of the President of Argentina, hung an enlarged photograph of Sacayán and one of Claudia Pía Baudracco in the women's and dissidents' room.