Le Billet de Samantha9

Le Billet de Samantha n° 26 – Juillet 2009

Le recensement de la honte…

Ceci est un message transféré
De : Carla LaGata <mana@zedat.fu-berlin.de
À : tgeu-info@lists.tmkis.eu, TGEU-research-network@yahoogroups.com
Date: mardi 21 juillet 2009
Objet : more than 200 murdered trans persons...

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TGEU & Liminalis Press Release:

Every 3rd day the murder of a Trans person is 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.
The cases have been reported from all six World regions: North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania . The majority of cases have been reported from Latin America and North America . On these continents the majority of cases have been reported from Brazil (59) and the U.S.A. (16) for 2008 and from Brazil (23), Venezuela (20), and Guatemala (10) for the first six months of 2009. Moreover, the preliminary results show a total of 11 murdered Trans people reported for Colombia followed by 5 for Honduras and 4 for Mexico and Venezuela for 2008, and 6 for Mexico and 3 for Argentina , and the Dominican Republic for the first six months of 2009.
In total 91 murders of trans people were reported in 11 Latin American countries in 2008, and 73 murders of trans people in 11 Latin American countries in the first six months of 2009. The reported murders of Trans people in Latin America account for 75% and 88% of the world wide reported murders of trans people in 2008 and the first six months of 2009 respectively.
The preliminary results also reveal that murders of trans people have been reported in 5 European countries in 2008 (Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey) and in 4 European countries (Russia, Serbia, Spain, Turkey) in the first six months of 2009. In Asia murders of Trans people were reported for Iraq , Malaysia , and Singapore in 2008, and for India in the first six months of 2009. In Oceania murders of trans people were reported for Australia in 2008, and for New Zealand in the first six months of 2009. In total the preliminary results show reports of murdered trans people in 22 countries in 2008, and in 17 countries in the first six months of 2009.

The preliminary results furthermore reveal some terrifying details on the nature of these crimes. The data shows that in 2008 six of the victims were minors and in the first six months of 2009 three minors were among the victims. One of these minors, 15 year-old Leticia King from Oxnard (USA), was shot twice in the head by a classmate in front of the whole class. Apart from these brutal murders, 5 of the reported murdered trans persons in 2008 were found tortured or dismembered, 2 were shot by retired policemen, and 3 were executed in police stations. 5 of the reported murdered trans persons were found tortured or dismembered in the first six months of 2009.

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« Quand je désespère, je me souviens que tout au long de l’histoire, la voix de la vérité et de l’amour a triomphé. Il y a dans ce monde des tyrans et des assassins ; et pendant un temps ils peuvent nous sembler invincibles.
Mais à la fin, ils tombent toujours.»
(Gandhi).

… En attendant, ce sont les Transgenre qui tombent, (un(e) tous les trois jours de par le monde), tandis que nombre de leurs bourreaux restent impunis !

Samantha.