BY THE NUMBERS — Every three days, a transgender person is murdered somewhere in the world. And that’s just what’s being reported.
Trans Murder Monitoring Project reveals more than 200 reported murders of trans persons in the last 1 1/2 years
In April 2009 the international NGO Transgender Europe (TGEU) in cooperation with the multilingual Online-Magazine “Liminalis — A Journal for Sex/Gender Emancipation and Resistance” started a new project, the /Trans Murder Monitoring Project/, which focuses on systematically reporting murdered trans people on a worldwide scale.
The very preliminary results of the first step of this project have revealed a total of 204 cases of reported murders of trans people world wide in the last 1 1/2 years. 121 cases of murdered trans people have been reported in 2008. From January to June 2009 already 83 cases of murdered trans people have been reported.
Furthermore, the preliminary results show an increase in the number of reports of murdered trans people over the last years. Since the beginning of 2008 the murder of a trans person is reported every third day, on average.
Dabq
This is scary and as usual, it falls in between the cracks of news as most just don’t care, be it the families of many of the victims, the police, or those in the glbt community who don’t know how to deal with the trans folks and the issues they deal with, just sad as no life should be taken for a reasons of other than the victim wasn’t what society deems as worthy.
Emily
Given that the Transgender Day Of Remembrance lists have been at most, about 30 in the past, I shudder to think about what TDOR is going to be like this year…
M Shane
The Ttrasgender people becoe openabout their choices the higher the rate will go,since peace is certainly not binding any place in people’s hearts. I’m curious to know what parts of the world this kind of intolerace is fostered most in.
Certainly the people of the U.S. have been a hateful bunch; considering the Iraqi war and all of the citizens (we keep in jail (greatest # in the world).
The spiral in ubiquitous confority here in the U.S. has made any deviation from the norms set by corporations have made any kind of creativity or sigularity increasingly dangerous.
This is sadbecause the measure of out=r humanity is little more than the measur of our tolerance for diversity.