OUT News Transgender people face discrimination, violence amid Latin American quarantines From Panama to Peru, transgender people say gender-based quarantine restrictions have exposed them to discrimination and violence. Image: Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Bogota Angel Mendoza, second left, and Martin Juco, third left, who are transgender and non-binary, stand in line outside a bank during gender-based quarantine restrictions, amidst the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Bogota, Colombia May 5, 2020.Luisa Gonzalez / -- specified that men and women must go out on separate days. That has turned a routine food shopping trip into an outing fraught with tension for social work student Rodriguez, who is transgender and nonbinary. From Panama to Peru, transgender people say gender-based quarantine restrictions have exposed them to discrimination and violence from people questioning their right to be out. In Bogota, women can only go out on days with even-numbered dates and men on odd, while transgender people are allowed to choose. Related -- NBC OUTPandemic strains LGBTQ health clinics However, rights group Red Comunitaria Trans said it had received 18 discrimination complaints since the measure began. One of those complaints was from a transgender woman in southern Bogota stabbed by a man who said she was out on the wrong day, a case also reported in local media. The woman is recovering from her injuries. -- In response to questions about the accusations of discrimination, Bogota's Metropolitan Police sent Reuters a publicity video of officers and members of the transgender community speaking to store employees, explaining that transgender people can choose their shopping day. Rodriguez was eventually allowed into the store, but at the check-out -- Afraid to report discrimination Juli Salamanca, communications director for Red Comunitaria Trans, said the coronavirus pandemic had left transgender people particularly exposed. -- discrimination and prejudice. She said some transgender people may be afraid to report discrimination because of previous police abuse. -- Colombia is not the only Latin American country where restrictions have stoked fear among transgender people. Related -- NBC OUT NBC OUTTwo arrested in 'hate crime' killing of trans women in Puerto Rico The Panamanian Association of Trans People has received more than 40 discrimination complaints since restrictions began in April, director Venus Tejada said, including problems getting into supermarkets or buying medicine. Transgender people who are immunocompromised are particularly worried, according to Tejada, and some with HIV fear additional discrimination because of their illness.