Globally One Trans Person is Murdered Every 21 hours with Brazil leading the way
77 worldwide and at least 36 Brazilian transgender people have been murdered to date,
According to one Brazilian NGO, 21% of those murdered were children doing sex work.
At the current rate, there will be at least 188 dead trans people in Brazil and 403 worldwide by year’s end. Making this real for everyone else... 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 we were putting the finishing touches on this article on Planet Transgender.com we received an email from the Transgender Europe’s (TGEU) Trans Murder Monitoring project (TMM).
According to them, there has been one trans person murdered every 21hours in the first 70 days of 2016. So we asked our contributing statistician Ariel Minkus for help for the third time that day to adjust the numbers upward. Thank the stars, this woman she came through once again.
The latest numbers, not counting the Brazilian murders we have posted since.
- Brazil has just 2.8% of the world’s population, but 46.7% of the world’s trans murders to date.
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If the world experienced Brazils trans murder rate, there’d be 1260 trans murders in those first 70 days worldwide and 6588 trans people murdered this year. THAT’S MORE THAN THERE HAS BEEN REPORTED By TGEU FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS Worldwide.
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TGEU reported a total of 1,933 murdered trans people in 64 countries from January 1st, 2008 to September 30th, 2015.
- if the current rate is sustained there will be 403 trans murders for the year worldwide of which, 188 would be Brazilians
- Brazil’s murder rate of trans people is 16.4 times higher than the rest of the world!
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. Granted, 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.
Please add your name to our Petition
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.
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!
Texto da petição pelo Grupo Transexual Portugal e Planet Transgender:
Nós, os indivíduos e as organizações abaixo assinadas pedimos ao governo do Brasil que tome medidas concretas para diminuir a intolerável taxa de homicídios da sua população transgénero.
O Brasil assinou a primeira resolução da ONU em 2011, que acrescentou as populações Trans e gay na Convenção de Direitos Humanos da ONU. No ano seguinte, no TDOR 2012, estivémos de luto por mais mais 325 assassinatos trans no Brasil.
Exortamos o governo a priorizar o plano traçado na carta de 2015 para o Gabinete do Alto Comissário da ONU para os Direitos Humanos e assim diminuir a homofobia e transfobia que o nosso povo sofre e de que morre diariamente.
A nossa população está a recorrer, para sobrevivência, ao trabalho sexual, sem-teto, e sem educação, colocando-se num maior risco de pagar com as suas vidas a inação do Governo.
Isso precisa mudar, agora! Originally published at Planet Transgender