Alarming Number of Transgender People Killed Worldwide in Last Seven Years Adrian Gonzalez - HRC Blog
go to original May 13, 2015

Paulo Herrera reacts at the end of a handing over ceremony of birth certificates for transgendered people in the Legislative Assembly of Federal District, in Mexico City on April 11, 2015. 31-year-old Paulo, a hair stylist living in Mexico City, received a birth certificate that accredits him as Paula Herrera and female. (Xinhua/Pedro Mera)

An updated report by a human rights group in Europe found that over 1,700 transgender people have been killed worldwide in the past seven years — and those are just reported murders.

Transgender Europe (TGEU), a human rights organization working towards the elimination of all forms of discrimination against transgender Europeans, released an update of its Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) report for The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT) 2015.

The TMM IDAHOT 2015 report outlines an alarming total of 1,731 cases of reported killings of transgender and gender-diverse people around the globe from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2014. While the circumstances around many of the killings are unknown due to lack of proper investigation, many “involved an extreme degree of aggression, including torture and mutilation.”

...The report indicates that there were “1,356 killings in 23 countries in Central and South America, 155 killings in 16 Asian countries; 112 killings in North America; 94 killings in 14 European countries; 9 killings have been reported in 4 African countries; and 5 killings in 4 countries in Oceania.” The highest absolute numbers, accounting for 57 percent of all reported killings around the globe, took place in Brazil (689), Mexico (194) and the United States (108). It is important to highlight that these countries have a strong presence of transgender and LGBT organizations doing professional monitoring. TGEU indicates that “this correlation points to the unknown number of unreported cases” elsewhere in the world.

More detailed information and analysis including maps and tables can also be found here.

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