Thursday 6 January 2022

Transgender murdered in 2020, 2021, how many more need to sacrifice: Unheard Screams

Last updated: 06 Jan 2022

List of Transgender we lost in the 2020s

2020 – Özge Bilir, aged 25, was a Dutch trans woman of Turkish descent living in Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht. She was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend. She is the first transgender person in the Netherlands to die as a result of violence in 2020 (according to Trans United Europe).
2020 – Valera (the name is changed in the report), a 46-year-old man, a janitor, was killed on February 10 in Chelyabinsk, Russia, by his dorm roommates after they learned he was a transgender man.
2020 – Alexa Luciano Ruiz was fatally shot in Puerto Rico on 24 February, after an incident in a local restroom. Carmen Yulín Cruz called attention to her death before the 2020 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election. Ms. Luciano was killed while the assailant men laughed.
2020 – Patsy Andrea Delgado, aged 42, was found dead on 5 March in Chihuahua City, Mexico. The police reported that she had been killed by blows to the head; a hammer with traces of blood was found near her body. The Comité de la Diversidad Sexual de Chihuahua, a local LGBT rights association, said that her killing was a hate crime.
2020 – Yampi Mendez Arocho, a 19-year-old trans man, was assaulted five hours before his death and later shot and killed on 5 March in Moca, Puerto Rico.
2020 – Penélope Díaz Ramírez, a 31-year-old trans woman, was beaten and hanged to death at the Bayamon correctional complex, a men's prison on 13 April in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
2020 – Serena Angelique Velázquez, 32, and Layla Pelaez, 21, both transgender women, were found burned to death on 22 April in Humacao, Puerto Rico.
2020 – Selena Reyes-Hernandez, 37, was fatally shot in Chicago, Illinois, on 31 May by a man she went home with, after telling him she was transgender.
2020 – Brayla Stone, 17, was murdered in Arkansas in June 2020 by a man seeking to conceal his sexual relationship with her. The killer pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
2020 – Ekta Joshi, ran an NGO for transgenders in Delhi with her mother, Anita. On September 5 in New Delhi, India, she had stepped out of a car when the accused [Gagan Bhardwaj (33) and Varun (19)] came on a scooter and fired multiple times at her. She had succumbed to the injuries.
2020 – Michelle Michellyn Ramos Vargas, a 33-year-old trans woman, was found dead on an isolated road after being shot multiple times on 30 September in San German, Puerto Rico. She worked as a bartender and was studying to become a nurse.
2021 – Ebeng Mayor, a trans man from Batasan Hills, was found raped, mutilated, and killed on 20 May 2021, after being missing for three days.
2021 - On the evening of December 13, Akshitha was found injured and unconscious in Jageer Ammapalayam in Tamil Nadu's Salem. She was admitted to Salem GH, where she succumbed the next day.