transfemicide
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transfemicide (countable and uncountable, plural transfemicides)
- The killing of a trans woman because of her gender, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.
- 2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism[1], page 145:
- When Monica Loera was shot to death near our North Austin home on January 22, her murder became the first of the nation's twenty-seven trans* homicides and the first of Texas's four transfemicides.
- 2019, C. J. W.-L. Wee, “Contemporary theatre, the contemporary, and historicity”, in Helena Grehan, Peter Eckersall, editors, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, unnumbered page:
- In recent years, contemporary protest movements such as NiUnaMenos (NotOne[Woman]Less) have drawn attention to the country's rising number of femicides, a category that in Argentina includes transvesticides and transfemicides.
- 2020, Celeste Fierro, Feminism in Debate, Reform or Revolution?, unnumbered page:
- At the same time, it enables higher levels of sexist violence in society, with its wake of femicides, transvesticides, transfemicides and other hate crimes.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transfemicide.
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