Summary of intolerance and violence against trans population

Venezuela: a transvestite murdered was found
This 2th June was found body of Alberto Antonio Triana, 38 years old. His body had received four shots (two in the head, one in the back and one in the jaw). He was abandoned in the yard of a house, at Brisas del Sur I of Cruz Verde. He were dressed with feminine clothes, her hair was long and silver. In his purse were found scissors and other hairdresser staff. It is considered that crime was produce for a robbery but cruelty sounds excessive.

http://elnuevodia.com.ve/content/view/35734/2/

Colombia
In the last two month we denounced death of Tahilí, murdered with a shot in the front; Verónica, murdered with 17 injuries made by a knife; and Darlyn, cruelty murdered by knife for two men; they disappear in Santiago de Cali. Reports came from several organizations that fight for Human Rights to LGBT population in Colombia, they said until now there are 16 cases in the last two years (including those we mentioned here) and 32 attempt of homicide.

Bulletin T-informa N° 5

Bulletin T-informa N° 6

Portugal
Luna was 42 years old, she was a Brazilean living in Portugal and a sexual worker in Conde Redondo. She was in the last level to complete her sex reasignation, a dream that many transsexuals are looking for. She desappear february 19th of this year and her body were found some days later in a very bad condition, inside of the trash.

http://dn.sapo.pt/2008/03/01/cidades/transexual_assassinada_ano_depois_gi.html

Ginsberta, another Brazilean inmigrant, was found death in a hole of ten metres long, in Oporto, february 22 of 2006. She was a trans woman, sexual worker, homeless, that lived in a building in construction. A group of fourteen teenagers between 10 and 16 year old confessed were guilty. They came from a protected institution conduct by Catholic Church and supported by Portugal State. Even thought crime was brutal (she was hit, torture, tie, rape and abandon still alive) murderes are in a semi-freedom regime and the oldest is in preventive detention.

http://www.t-vox.org/index.php?title=Murder_of_Gisberta_in_Portugal_2006

Peru
Bresia Mejía past away on November 15th. She was killed by three subjects who carried knifes, in the district of Independence located in the north of Lima. According to the police testimony, her death was the result of “abdominal trauma opened and rectal injury”. The police have not yet identified the aggressors.

Bulletin T-Informa N°1

Holanda
Henriette was a very colorful person, well-known by many in T'he Hague, where she lived and worked. She had a regular job with a consumer organisation and did a lot of volunteer work as well. She was kicked completely unprovoked by a stranger in the center of the city in the middle of the day. Her injuries were so severe that she never awoke from the coma again and passed away a couple of weeks after the attack. She was 55 years old.

http://www.ad.nl/denhaag/stad/article1295771.ece http://www.vreer.net/wordpress/archives/78

Costa Rica
Carlos Alberto Novoa Guerrero, 32 years old, from Nicaragua and called “Nathaly” and the young Juan Pablo Bolaños Solís, 23 years old, were found murdered by shots the morning of June 23th. We believe it was a crime of hite because they were found inside of a card in which was writtten “gay”.

http://www.diarioextra.com/2008/junio/20/sucesos01.php

Virtual Cemetery
+ July 2005 (NL) Irene
+ March 2005 (FR) Mylène
+ December 2004 (I) Luano
+ December 2004 (UK) Penny Port
+ July 2004 (I) Leandro Bispo Estavao
+ July 2004 (I) Gennaro Rizzo
+ August 2003 (I) Enrico Taglialatela
+ October 2003 (I) Rider Orcero
+ October 2003 (I) Erika Johana
+ October 2003 (I) Adrian Torres de Assuncao
+ March 2003 (Serbia) Merlinka

These are not the only cases, names follows one to another in the face of authorities with no consternation. Guilties are still free and didn’t pay for their actions. These crimes are not determine as crime of hite even thought are produced by discrimination and intolerance against trans people that do not belong to binarian social identities.

In the website that come down, a virtual cemetery, are a list of names to victims of murders, terrible crimes against Human Rights of trans population. Even though this website is not being update, this names should not be forgotten, it is necessary to continue fighting in their names and in the memory of another anonymous trans women that suffer systemic violence.

http://www.gender.org/remember/index.html

Day againts violence of trans population
¡No more crimes, no more marginalization, NO more violence!
Letters and petitions are not anymore a good manner to protest against this matters. We suggest a world action against violence to trans population, there is no possible that authorities continue deniging to identify this crimes as hite crimes, because all this deaths are consecuense of marginalization and discrimination.

Also, there is not only murderes, it is hits without a reason ( as just happen in Memphis), it is imagines that are part of the newspaper press, and also part of tvshows, in which trans population is make fun, is the thinking that said they are trush, all that is why are murdered, violented and suffer of injustice.
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Alternatives Dates:
April 3th, 2006: It is created ILGA Trans Secretariat to fight for human rights of t trans population.
May 4th: First Law of Gender Identity in the world, Turkey 1988
December 21th: Solstice, light against shodow
November 16th: Tolerance Day
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