Murder

Nov
20

Trans day of remembrance 2010

admin on November 20th, 2010
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From 20th November last year to 19th November this year, 179 trans people were killed. That is, 179 killings of trans people made enough press and police attention for us to know about. It doesn’t take into account those that are just reported under their old names and their assigned genders, nor does it take [...]

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Human rights, LGBT, Murder, Trans 4 Comments »
Apr
27

Angie Zapata vindicated

admin on April 27th, 2009

On 17th July, 2008, a vivacious young woman called Angie Zapata was viciously murdered by a man called Allen Andrade, who beat her in the head multiple times with a fire extinguisher. That’s horrible enough, but the story doesn’t end there. It continues with a trial where a cold-blooded murderer and an equally cold-blooded defence [...]

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Barbaric?, Cissexism, Discrimination, Human rights, LGBT, Murder, Trans 2 Comments »