TGEU develops its own research projects. These projects and their results will be presented here.

The Trans Murder Monitoring Project

The first project is a monitoring and research project, which started in April 2009 and is carried out in cooperation with the multilingual Online-Magazine  "Liminalis - A Journal for Sex/Gender Emancipation and Resistance".

The so called Trans Murder Monitoring Project focuses on murdered trans people worldwide. Although the results of the Trans Murder Monitoring project are very preliminary at this stage of the project, we will present these preliminary results here for the following reasons:

- to introduce the Trans Murder Monitoring project to a wider public
- to win supporters and cooperation partners (see also below)
- to raise awareness about the murderous situation trans people have to face in diverse countries

These very preliminary results have revealed more than 200 reported cases of murdered trans people from January 2008 to June 2009 worldwide. They show 121 cases of reported murdered trans people in 2008 worldwide. From January to June 2009 already 83 cases of murdered trans people have been reported worldwide.

The preliminary results of TGEU’s and Liminalis’s Trans Murder Monitoring project are presented here in different forms and as PDF-files:

 
1.) a short report-article which is introducing the Trans Murder monitoring project, giving some context information on monitoring and reporting murders of trans persons, and summarizing the preliminary results:

Report January2008-June2009 (click here) (82 KB)

2.) Name lists of the reported murdered trans persons in 2008 and from January to June 2009. These lists are showing the names and some details about the deaths of the otherwise anonymously reported murdered trans persons:

Name List 2008 (click here) (58 KB)

Name List January-June2009 (click here) (98 KB)

3.) Tables showing some preliminary statistics relating to (among others) the country, the cause of death, and the profession of the victims.

Tables 2008 (click here) (32 KB)

Tables January-June2009 (click here) (31 KB)

4.) Maps showing graphically the worldwide scale of the reports of murdered trans persons

Map 2008 (click here) (1 MB)

Map January-June2009 (click here) (1 MB) 

Although TGEU and Liminalis wish that such research was unnecessary (because there was no murder of trans persons to report) they would appreciate contributions concerning reports of murdered trans people and transphobic murders and violence in general from the different countries in the six world regions. Therefore TGEU and Liminalis are asking networks, organisations and individuals to send reports of murdered trans people to research[at]tgeu.org and to take part in this ongoing monitoring and research project and help provide data for measurements to improve the situation of trans people worldwide.
When reporting cases of murdered trans people please give as many details as possible, e.g. the name of the victim, using if known the chosen social name of the victim, the victim’s age and profession and if known the victim’s self definition (e.g. travesti, transwoman, FTM, genderqueer etc.) or the local/indigenous denominations (e.g. muxé, kathoey etc.), the date (day, month, year) and the place (State, City/Town, Street/Public Place/Home etc.) of the murder as well as the cause of death (e.g. shot, stabbed, strangled etc.) and the source of information. Furthermore if possible a context for the murder as well as a follow up of the murder (investigation, classification as hate or bias crime, prosecution of the perpetrator etc.) would be very helpful.

 The preliminary results of TGEU’s and Liminalis’ Trans Murder Monitoring project will be presented in the new issue of "Liminalis - A Journal for Sex/Gender Emancipation and Resistance", which is to be released in the middle of July 2009 in English, Spanish, and German.