travesticide

travesticide

English

Alternative forms

• transvesticide

Etymology

From Spanish travesti (“trans woman, cross-dresser”) +‎ -cide.

Noun

travesticide (plural travesticides)

1. (Latin America) The killing of a travesti because of her gender, especially when motivated by transphobia.
   • 2020, Moira Fradinger, Blas Radi, & Moira Pérez, "Argentina, Chile, And Uruguay", in Gender and Identity Around the World (ed. Chuck Stewart), page 197:

     In 2018 the figure of "travesticide" (term developed by Radi and Sardá-Chandiramani 2016) was applied for the first time in Argentina during the trial for the murder of travesti activist Diana Sacayán.

   • 2020, Verónica Gago, Feminist International: How to Change Everything, page 56:

     Speaking of violence starting from femicides and travesticides positions them as its culminating point, but it also poses a challenge: to not limit ourselves to its necropolitical accounting, the tallying of femicides and victims.

   • 2021, Laura Saldivia Menajovsky, "Argentina, Trans Persons and the Development of a Human Rights Discourse", in Trans Rights and Wrongs: A Comparative Study of Legal Reform Concerning Trans Persons (eds. Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Vélez & Laura Carlson), page 360:

     In criminal law, the case of the murder of the travestite and human rights activist Dana Sacayán, has been framed by the prosecution as one of a “travesticide”, that is, a hate crime against a travestite.

Hypernyms

• transfemicide