travesticide en · NOUN
Etymology
From Spanish travesti (“trans woman, cross-dresser”) + -cide.
Meanings
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(Latin-America) The killing of a travesti because of her gender, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.
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, Moira Fradinger, Blas Radi, Moira Pérez, “Argentina, Chile, And Uruguay”, in Chuck Stewart, editor, Gender and Identity Around the World, page 197: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.
2021, Laura Saldivia Menajovsky, “Argentina, Trans Persons and the Development of a Human Rights Discourse”, in Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Vélez, Laura Carlson, editors, Trans Rights and Wrongs: A Comparative Study of Legal Reform Concerning Trans Persons, page 360: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.
2020, Verónica Gago, Feminist International: How to Change Everything, page 56:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| travesticides | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| transvesticide | alternative | lexicographic |
Hypernyms
Translations (3)
es travesticidio (Translations) · fr travesticide (Translations) · pt travesticídio (Translations)