This is a worldwide list of people who were killed for being transgender. The list does not include suicides , accidental deaths , or premature deaths. Some of the perpetrators in these cases cite the trans panic defense.
Violence against transgender people is also known as trans bashing. In , the American Medical Association called the violence against trans people an "epidemic". In , ABC News "independently confirmed 34 violent deaths of transgender and gender non-conforming people in at the time of publication. The Nazi Regime targeted, imprisoned, and killed an indeterminate number of transgender people, especially trans women. The Indonesian s Islamic New Order regime also targeted transgender individuals for violent persecution.
Long home to a variety of transgender and third-gender identities , the new government cracked down on ceremonies and rituals of the non-binary bissu community. Individuals were subjected to public head-shaving, while some were tortured and murdered; reports from the time indicate bissu were given the choice of detransition or death. In Bone , the bissu Sanro Makgangke was decapitated, and their head was displayed publicly as a threat to others.
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