Report Warns Murder Rate Against Transgendered People Is Rising

A new report has found an estimated 200 transgendered persons were murdered from January 2008 to June 2009; which is enough to say that every three days a transgendered person is killed somewhere in the world.

The project was started by the international group Transgender Europe (TGEU) and the journal ‘Liminalis’ in an effort to track and combat violence committed against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and questioning (LGBT) community.

The project compiled at least 121 murder cases from 2008 and another 83 murder cases for the year-to-date. Preliminary results show that the murder rate for transgendered people is a global problem, effecting North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

“Furthermore that the number of reports of murdered trans people is increasing in the last years,” the report warns. “The majority of cases have been reported from Latin America and North America.”

The report shows Brazil is by far the most dangerous place in the world for the transgendered community. In 2008, 59 people were murdered while another 23 murders were reported so far this year. Last year, 16 transgendered people were murdered in the United States, the second most dangerous place on Earth.

While the report is an effort to document all crimes, even its authors admit to the limitations of compiling a survey while countries continue to avoid reporting hate crimes.

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The Robert Wone Stabbing: Anatomy of a Murder Case

A 911 call from a million-dollar townhouse in Dupont Circle on a sweltering summer night three years ago:

“We need an ambulance,” Victor Zaborsky blurted, his delicate voice pitched so high that the operator mistook him for a woman.

“What’s wrong, ma’am?”

“We had someone . . . in our house, evidently,” Zaborsky said, gasping, “and they stabbed somebody.”

Over the next eight minutes, stammering breathlessly on the phone, he would report that while he and his two housemates were asleep, an unseen “intruder” had slipped into the residence and attacked a visiting friend of theirs.

“Are they bleeding?” the operator asked. “See someone bleeding?”

“Yes,” said Zaborsky, then 40, in words that echo today: “Someone is bleeding in our house.”

So began a real-life parlor mystery — an unsolved killing and alleged coverup in the guest room of an elegant home in the heart of Washington’s gay community, with a trio of seemingly unlikely suspects: a self-described “polyamorous family” of three men. The bizarre murder that evening of a young Ivy League lawyer named Robert Wone, still grist for gossip and conjecture on the city’s gay blogosphere, has vexed police and prosecutors since the 911 call just before midnight Aug. 2, 2006.

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Hearing postponed in King murder case

(Oxnard, California) The preliminary hearing for a 15-year-old charged with murder in the killing of openly gay student Lawrence King has been postponed until July.

The hearing, where the prosecution is required to prove there is enough evidence to proceed with a trial, was to have begun this week, but is …

Transgender murder case opens