Post by Ayla on Mar 15, 2016 11:11:57 GMT 8
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At the current rate, there will be at least 188 dead trans people in Brazil and 403 worldwide by year’s end.
If the world’s population of 7 billion people were murdered at that same rate as the Brazilian trans people are there would be an additional half million people slaughtered this year.
As Eduarda and I were putting the finishing touches on this article she received an email from the Transgender Europe’s (TGEU) Trans Murder Monitoring project (TMM) literally moments before publishing. According to the email there has been one trans person murdered every day in the first 70 days of 2016. So we asked our contributing statistician Ariel Minkus for help. Thank the stars, this woman she came through once again
The latest numbers, not counting a murder we are curently trying to verify.
Brazil has just 2.8% of the world’s population, but 46.7% of the world’s trans murders to date.
If the world experienced Brazils trans murder rate, there’d be 1260 murders in those first 70 days worldwide and 6588 for the whole year, all due to gender.
In contrast, if the current rate is sustained there would be “just” 403 trans murders for the whole year
of which, 188 would be Brazilians
Brazil’s murder rate of trans people is 16.4 times higher than the rest of the world.
We say “just” sarcastically, because it’s a popular right wing ploy to stir hate and discontent among those defending ‘everyone’s’ right to discriminate against a minority.
What if our detractors brothers and sisters were among the ones murdered? In a world that they envision their family and friends would inevitably be among the hundreds of thousands additional killed this year.
February 2015 we shocked the world by asking people to stop killing us for just one week. At that time last year there was one trans murder every 29 hours including suicides. This isn’t getting better. the pushback is killing us.
Putting this holocaust into context.
If the world’s trans murder rate mirrored that of Brazil, there would be 6588 more transgender people murdered this year! That’s more than there has been reported by the TGEU for the past ten years.
TGEU reported a total of 1,933 murdered trans people in 64 countries from January 1st, 2008 to September 30th, 2015.
At the present rate, there will be 188 trans Brazilians murdered in 2016 which is only 83 less than what was reported by TGEU at the 2015 TDOR (271) worldwide.
Planet Transgender has recently been criticized for publishing graphic images of those murders, found in south American coverage. This feedback mainly came from our community in countries where the homicide rates are lower. We were told that we were offending their sensibilities, even accused of enjoying the images while doing ‘sensationalistic’ journalism. We were asked to post more palatable images or face loss of readership and censorship by facebook trans news sites.
Salvador Trans Murders
Transgender woman Chaina was shot 10 times March 5th in Largo do Papagaio in the Caminho de Areia neighborhood, in the Cidade Baixa area, in Salvador.
We will continue to post these graphic images as this reality, as horrific as it is, has started a conversation with which we aim to nurture radical social change with.
That is why are beginning an effort in concert with activists and organization in Brazil to bring this situation to the world’s attention, and in turn, make the criminal acquiescence of Brazilain police, judicial and legislative departments undeniable. There have been limited efforts by the government to help improve the social climate for trans people. That effort was well focused, identifying the root causes of trans people’s social ostracisation but obviously too little to help.
Text of the petition by Grupo Transexual Portugal and Planet Trans:
We the undersigned individuals and organizations call on the government of Brazil to take concrete measures to decrease the intolerable murder rate of her transgender peoples.
Brazil signed the first UN Resolution in 2011 adding Trans and gay people to the UN Human Rights Convention. During the following year at the 2012 TDOR, we mourned another 325 transgender murders in Brazil.
We call on the government to prioritize the plan outlined in the 2015 letter to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and decrease the social homophobia and transphobia our people suffer and die from daily.
Brazil trans murders
Our people are resorting to survival sex work, homeless, and under educated, putting themselves at the greatest risk and paying for the Government’s inaction with their lives.
This must change, now!
At the current rate, there will be at least 188 dead trans people in Brazil and 403 worldwide by year’s end.
If the world’s population of 7 billion people were murdered at that same rate as the Brazilian trans people are there would be an additional half million people slaughtered this year.
As Eduarda and I were putting the finishing touches on this article she received an email from the Transgender Europe’s (TGEU) Trans Murder Monitoring project (TMM) literally moments before publishing. According to the email there has been one trans person murdered every day in the first 70 days of 2016. So we asked our contributing statistician Ariel Minkus for help. Thank the stars, this woman she came through once again
The latest numbers, not counting a murder we are curently trying to verify.
Brazil has just 2.8% of the world’s population, but 46.7% of the world’s trans murders to date.
If the world experienced Brazils trans murder rate, there’d be 1260 murders in those first 70 days worldwide and 6588 for the whole year, all due to gender.
In contrast, if the current rate is sustained there would be “just” 403 trans murders for the whole year
of which, 188 would be Brazilians
Brazil’s murder rate of trans people is 16.4 times higher than the rest of the world.
We say “just” sarcastically, because it’s a popular right wing ploy to stir hate and discontent among those defending ‘everyone’s’ right to discriminate against a minority.
What if our detractors brothers and sisters were among the ones murdered? In a world that they envision their family and friends would inevitably be among the hundreds of thousands additional killed this year.
February 2015 we shocked the world by asking people to stop killing us for just one week. At that time last year there was one trans murder every 29 hours including suicides. This isn’t getting better. the pushback is killing us.
Putting this holocaust into context.
If the world’s trans murder rate mirrored that of Brazil, there would be 6588 more transgender people murdered this year! That’s more than there has been reported by the TGEU for the past ten years.
TGEU reported a total of 1,933 murdered trans people in 64 countries from January 1st, 2008 to September 30th, 2015.
At the present rate, there will be 188 trans Brazilians murdered in 2016 which is only 83 less than what was reported by TGEU at the 2015 TDOR (271) worldwide.
Planet Transgender has recently been criticized for publishing graphic images of those murders, found in south American coverage. This feedback mainly came from our community in countries where the homicide rates are lower. We were told that we were offending their sensibilities, even accused of enjoying the images while doing ‘sensationalistic’ journalism. We were asked to post more palatable images or face loss of readership and censorship by facebook trans news sites.
Salvador Trans Murders
Transgender woman Chaina was shot 10 times March 5th in Largo do Papagaio in the Caminho de Areia neighborhood, in the Cidade Baixa area, in Salvador.
We will continue to post these graphic images as this reality, as horrific as it is, has started a conversation with which we aim to nurture radical social change with.
That is why are beginning an effort in concert with activists and organization in Brazil to bring this situation to the world’s attention, and in turn, make the criminal acquiescence of Brazilain police, judicial and legislative departments undeniable. There have been limited efforts by the government to help improve the social climate for trans people. That effort was well focused, identifying the root causes of trans people’s social ostracisation but obviously too little to help.
Text of the petition by Grupo Transexual Portugal and Planet Trans:
We the undersigned individuals and organizations call on the government of Brazil to take concrete measures to decrease the intolerable murder rate of her transgender peoples.
Brazil signed the first UN Resolution in 2011 adding Trans and gay people to the UN Human Rights Convention. During the following year at the 2012 TDOR, we mourned another 325 transgender murders in Brazil.
We call on the government to prioritize the plan outlined in the 2015 letter to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and decrease the social homophobia and transphobia our people suffer and die from daily.
Brazil trans murders
Our people are resorting to survival sex work, homeless, and under educated, putting themselves at the greatest risk and paying for the Government’s inaction with their lives.
This must change, now!