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Transgender Europe: Press Release: March 23 2012

*Again alarming figures: Transgender Europe?s Trans Murder Monitoring
project reveals more than 800 reported murders of trans people in the
last four years*

The Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) project started in April 2009 and
systematically monitors, collects and analyses reports of homicides of
trans people worldwide. Updates of the preliminary results are published
two to three times a year on the website of the ?Transrespect versus
Transphobia Worldwide? project in the form of tables, name lists, and maps:

http://www.transrespect-transphobia.org/en_US/tvt-project/tmm-results.htm

*The March 2012 update reveals a total of 816 reported killings of trans
people in 55 countries worldwide from January 1^st 2008 to December
31^st 2011.*The update shows an exponential increase in reported
killings of trans people over the last four years. In 2008, 141 cases
were reported, in 2009 213 cases, in 2010 214 cases, and in 2011 a
shocking number of 248. These are mainly the reported cases that could
be found through Internet research and cooperation with trans
organizations and activists. In most countries, data on murdered trans
people are not systematically produced and it is impossible to estimate
the numbers of unreported cases.

The reasons for this increase might be manifold. Every year, TGEU?s TVT
research team has improved its monitoring methods, started new
collaborations with organizations that contributed their data, and
received information from activists from many parts of the world. Also,
the increase in the visibility of trans people and of trans issues in
public discourse may have led to a better reporting of cases. However,
the data also show also that there is no decrease, that the shocking
amount of violence against trans people still poses a major problem and
threat to trans people in many countries. The again alarming figures
demonstrate once more that there is an urgent need to react to the
violence against trans people and to seek mechanisms to protect trans
people. Some international trans activists even started to introduce the
term ?transcide? to reflect the continuously elevated level of deadly
violence against trans people on a global scale.

*Cases have been reported from all major World Regions (Africa, Asia,
Central and South America, Europe, North America, and Oceania), evoking
an evermore gruesome picture, especially given the very partial
knowledge we are able to gain in many places.**An interactive map
showing most of the 816 reported murders of trans people is available at:*

http://www.transrespect-transphobia.org/en_US/tvt-project/tmm-results/all-tmm-reports-since-2008.htm

Most reported cases were from *Central and South America*, which amount
to 643 cases in 21 countries and account for roughly 80 % of the
globally reported murders of trans people since January 2008. In this
region, there has been the strongest increase in reports (2008: 94,
2009: 165, 2010: 180, and 2011: 204). In Colombia, 59 killings have been
reported in total, numbers steadily increasing since 2008 (2008: 13,
2009: 13, 2010: 15, 2011: 18). In Mexico, 60 cases have been reported in
total, roughly doubling each year (2008: 4, 2009: 9, 2010: 14, 2011:
33). In Venezuela, there have been 48 reported killings in total,
peaking in 2009 and 2011 (2008: 4, 2009: 22, 2010: 5, 2011: 17). In
Brazil, the country with most reported killings (325 in total), there
has been a steady increase (2008: 57, 2009: 68, 2010: 99, 2011: 101).
Reports from countries with smaller population sizes are also extremely
worrying, in particular the Dominican Republic (12 total), Guatemala
(31) and Honduras (34). Killings of trans people in the region have also
been reported from Argentina (18), Bolivia (7), Chile (3), Costa Rica
(3), Cuba (1), Ecuador (9), El Salvador (7), Jamaica (1), Nicaragua (2),
Panama (1), Paraguay (3), Peru (9), Puerto Rico (8), and Uruguay (2).

The new result update moreover reveals that in the last 4 years, 59
killings of trans people have been reported in Asia (2008: 12, 2009: 14,
2010: 16, 2011: 17), 53 killings have been reported in North America
(2008: 18, 2009: 13, 2010: 8, 2011: 14), 53 in Europe (2008: 13, 2009:
19, 2010: 9, 2011: 12), 4 in Oceania (2008: 3, 2009: 1) as well as 4 in
Africa (2008: 1, 2009: 2. 2011: 1).

*Regarding Asia,*since January 2008 59 killings of trans people have
been reported in 13 countries (Afghanistan: 1, Azerbaijan: 2, China: 6,
India: 10, Indonesia: 4, Iran: 1, Iraq: 3, Malaysia: 6, Pakistan: 12,
Philippines: 10, Republic of Korea: 1, Singapore: 1, and Thailand: 2).

*In Europe,*53 killings of trans people have been reported in 11
countries (Albania: 1, France: 1, Germany: 2, Italy: 14, Poland: 1,
Portugal: 1, Russia: 2, Serbia: 1, Spain: 4, Turkey: 23, and UK: 3). The
data also show a continuously elevated number of reported murders in
Turkey in the previous years (2008: 4, 2009: 7, 2010: 6, 2011: 6).

*In Oceania, 4*killings have been reported since 2008 (Australia: 1,
Fiji: 1, New Caledonia: 1, and New Zealand: 1) and *in Africa* also 4
(Algeria: 1, Mauritius: 1, Uganda: 1, and South Africa: 1).

*Attached to this press release you can find a map, which demonstrates
the absolute figures of reports found worldwide since January 2008.*

While the documentation of killings of trans people is indispensable for
demonstrating the shocking extent of human rights violations committed
against trans people on a global scale, there is also a need for
in-depth research of various other aspects related to the human rights
situation of trans people. Therefore, Transgender Europe developed the
Trans Murder Monitoring project into the *?Transrespect versus
Transphobia Worldwide? research project (TvT).* TvT is a comparative,
ongoing qualitative-quantitative research project, which provides an
overview of the human rights situation of trans people in different
parts of the world and develops useful data and advocacy tools for
international institutions, human rights organizations, the trans
movement and the general public. A research team from Transgender Europe
is coordinating the project, which is funded by the Open Society
Foundations, the ARCUS Foundation, and partly by the Heinrich Boell
Foundation.The TvT research team is assisted by an Advisory Board
composed of international LGBT, trans and human rights activists and
academics from Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Europe, North
America, and Oceania. It furthermore cooperates with more than a dozen
partner organizations in these six World Regions.

Since December 2011, the TvT project has been constantly updating a
comprehensive and detailed *Mapping of the Legal and Health Care
Situation* of trans people on a global scale, which can be found at:

http://www.transrespect-transphobia.org/en_US/mapping.htm

In November 2011, the TvT research team together with six partner
organizations from Asia, Eastern Europe, Oceania, and South America
started a new *survey in form of a peer research on trans people?s
experiences with Transrespect and Transphobia*.

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If you have further questions or if you want to support the research
project, please contact the TvT research team:/

Dr Carsten Balzer and Dr Jan Simon Hutta

*research[at]transrespect-transphobia.org*

/or check our website:/

*www.transrespect-transphobia.org

*

*If you want to support the ?Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide?
project, you can also contribute with a donation to Transgender Europe
(details below). *

*Please enter ?TvT project? as reference of the payment.

*Account Holder: Transgender Europe
Bank: Nordostsee-Sparkasse
Swift/BIC: NOLADE21NOS
IBAN: DE 47 2175 0000 0163 4963 67
Reference of payment: TvT project
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