STOP THE GENOCIDE AGAINST TRANS WOMEN!

STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST TRANS PEOPLE

Organizations, associations and activists defending the human and civil law of trans people (transsexual / transgender / transvestite ... depending on the different names used in each country): WE PUBLICLY DENOUNCE generalized extreme violence and murders that trans people suffer by the virtue of being transgender around the world, especially at Latin America. WE DENOUNCE ALSO the IMPUNITY that this genocide is committed and the lack of action by the governments to eradicate it, and WE DEMAND the INVOLVEMENT of society, and especially GOVERNMENTS, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS with competence with Human Rights Issues and pro-Human Rights NGOs, to directly take policy, legislative and judicial actions to end this genocide, and at the same time to put pressure on governments in order to apply such measures.

SYSTEMATIC RIGHTS INFRINGEMENT SITUATION OF THE TRANS PERSONS

Even today, transgender people have their most basic human and civil rights systematically violated around the world to a greater or lesser extent, often are the governments themselves that not only take steps to eradicate violence (physical, psychological and symbolic) and discrimination against trans people, but they themselves violate many of these rights (based on the violation of the right to self-determination of gender identity, and denying the corresponding legal recognition and the obtaining of legal documentation according to her identity, and the denial of the right to comprehensive health or police harassment). All the violence and social and labor exclusion from cisexists and transphobic prejudices, besides representing itself, let trans people, especially women (and especially if they are immigrants, poor, color .. .), in a situation of extreme vulnerability to all forms of serious violence. This violation of human and civil rights is perfectly reflected in the study "A comparative review of the human-rights situation of Gender-variant/Trans people"i, published by "Transrespect vs. Transphobia Worldwide". As pointed Charles Radcliffe, director of global issues, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in this study preface:

[...] Every day millions of trans people experience rejection, stigmatization, harassment and physical violence for not complying with prevailing gender norms worldwide. They were also denied the right to obtain identity documents that reflect their gender identity, are fired from their jobs, denied basic public services, and face deep-rooted discrimination in the health and education sector. These abuses are systematic, but little reported. The response, both nationally and internationally, has been, almost without exception, inadequate. The legal obligations that states have to protect transgender people from violence and discrimination are different from those that states have towards all others. The rights of trans people are not segregated and are not a special subset of rights, these are Human Rights. Trans people are not an inferior class of people and have right to life, like any other human being. They must seek protection from arbitrary detention and torture; ensure non-discrimination and freedom of expression, association and assembly. These and many other rights are universal: accredited by international laws, but denied to many trans people simply because of their gender identity or gender expression. [...]

GENOCIDE AND TRANS FEMINICIDE

In May 17, 2013, the last update of The Trans Murdered People Observatoryii, maintained by the TvT project, indicated that in the first months of this year, 78 murders of trans people were had committed around the world, (the vast majority over trans women), registering a total of 1,233 reports of murders since January 1, 2008 until April 2013. The study shows significant and constant reports of murders of trans people in the last five years. In 2008 148 murder cases were reported, 218 cases in 2009, 229 cases in 2010, 264 cases in 2011, 296 cases in 2012, and 78 cases in the firsts four months of 2013. The Interamerican Commission on Human Rights, has reported at the same time 23 murders of trans people in America in July 2013iii only, (compared to 16 murders of gays and lesbians cis [no-trans], showing more murders of trans people in absolute numbers than all the murders together of lesbian, gay and bisexual cis). It is important to note that these cases are only those that have been located through research on the Internet and through cooperation with organizations and trans activists. In many countries data on murders of trans people do not occur in a systematic way (or are hidden under the guise of other crimes), so it is impossible to know the actual number of cases because the lack of information, but clues indicate that the real number of these crimes easily exceeds twice of the reported cases.iv Even counting only the murders and taking into account the ratio of 1 for every 30,000 trans persons, this figure is equivalent to approximately 5.5 million of cisexual (no-trans) people killed by year (and quite possibly more than the double of that figure): IN PROPORTION, ONE OF THE LARGEST GENOCIDES IN THE HISTORY THAT CONTINUES TODAYv. More precisely, this authentic GENOCIDE is basically a FEMINICIDE TRANS, since the vast majority of victims are trans women. FEMINICIDE TRANS, also framed within the widespread and systematic violence against trans people in general (trans men and women and gender variant people) fruit of cisexism and transphobia, also falls within the general FEMINICIDE (along with the femicide against cis [non-trans] women), since the murdered victims are women because macho patriarchal violence: These murders occurs especially in relation to sex work caused by the marginalization; the killers are men, and many times these murderers are partners, ex-partners, or customers of the victims, like occurs with cis (nontrans) women.

Trans women are killed primarily because be women, poor women, immigrants, or colored ... And many governments systematically tolerate or promote this extermination as a form of "social cleansing" and have their bodies as they do with the bodies of women cis (no-trans.) To all this is added the cisexism component (not recognized as "real" women) and transphobia, which intensify male violence within a structural context of violence and gender discrimination by their gender. It's a real FEMINICIDE because this genocide against trans women (primary victims) is due to a situation of structural gender violence against women, violence multiplied by cisexist and transphobic prejudice that make this gender violence increased proportionately and enormously against trans women. It is therefore essential to start talking about "FEMINICIDE TRANS" when referring to the entire series of murders of trans women by the virtue of being. And these murders should be counted along with the rest of femicide, with added differential treatment that arises from being a particular type of women, but including them. Also we should make visible all the persecution, violence and murder against trans men and gender variant people, that even being much smaller than the trans femicide is still proportionally much greater than of the population cis [non-trans].

THEREFORE,

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, THE UNDERSIGNED ORGANIZATIONS AND PEOPLE DEMAND TO

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS to: 1st. Demand to the United Nations to urge its Member States to integrate as far as possible, the Yogyakarta Principles on the application and interpretation of domestic laws and international treaties on Human Rights in relation to gender identity. 2nd. Stop all the crimes against humanity that trans people come supporting over our civil and political rights recognized by national constitutions of the High Contracting Parties and / or international treaties on human rights ratified by those High Contracting Parties. 3rd. We demand also the cease all economic, social and cultural supporting violations over trans people that we repeatedly suffer under discriminatory rules. 4th. If any violation in the above rights occurs, enjoin to the competent internal authorities and the High Contracting Party, and especially including the Attorney, to prosecute and punish the offender or offenders as perpetrators of discrimination and hatred crimes against the dignity and the free development of personality. 5th. To restore the victim to the previous situation, or where this is not possible, either she or her family be compensated in proportion to the damage. 6th. The victims of such violations receive protection from the UN, if the authorities of the High Contracting Party does not provide such protection, and

7th. It guarantees the granting of political asylum to the victims of such violations in any member State of the United Nations which protect fundamental rights and civil liberties of trans people, if they continue these violations. ADDENDUM. If the Body to which this paper is addressed is not competent to give effect to these requests, we demand that you submit it to the competent body.

http://www.transrespect-transphobia.org/uploads/downloads/Publications/TvT_research-report.pdf
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http://www.transrespect-transphobia.org/en_US/tvt-project/tmm-results.htm http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/prensa/Comunicados/2013/060.asp

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For example, 2009 data from countries where no data are approximately half the world's population (and most of them are countries with a level of respect for human rights of transgender people and women in generally below the global average) ::

No data from China (the most populous country in the world, which alone accounts for 20% of the world population), Indonesia (4th most populous country in the world), Pakistan (6th country by population), Bangladesh (8th country) , Russia (9th), Afghanistan and Iraq (countries face very high levels of political violence, sexist, transphobic and homo / lesbo / bifbic (which number about 245 million people), nor of Africa (except Algeria), continent with 1,000 million inhabitants ... map 2009: http://www.transrespect-transphobia.org/uploads/downloads/TMM/TvT-TMM-MapTDOR2009-en.pdf GENOCIDE: How and what must be named if not the systematic murder of people of a sector of the population marginalized and excluded just for the fact of belonging to that sector of the population? How should you call if not, when the murder rate is the equivalent of several million people per year in the general population (between 6 and 11 million people killed a year, and probably more so)? Is there a more appropriate term to call it genocide?
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