Transfemicide

//ˌtɹænsˈfɛ.mɪ.saɪd// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The killing of a trans woman because of her gender identity, especially when motivated by transmisogyny. countable, uncountable

    "When Monica Loera was shot to death near our North Austin home on January 22, her murder became the first of the nation's twenty-seven trans* homicides and the first of Texas's four transfemicides."

Example

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"When Monica Loera was shot to death near our North Austin home on January 22, her murder became the first of the nation's twenty-seven trans* homicides and the first of Texas's four transfemicides."

Etymology

From trans- + femicide.

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