Brazil leads the world in tg murder rates

[rxpharm]

This is a disturbing story, published in the Washington Post about the tg murder rate in Brazil. Very surprising and disturbing, as I had thought Brazil was more accepting of tgs.

A horrific murder has awakened Brazil€™s transgender community

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© Tasso Marcelo/AFP/Getty Images People take part in an LGBT Pride parade along Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro in November 2015.

SÃO PAULO, Brazil €” Dandara dos Santos, a 42-year-old transgender woman from a northern Brazilian slum, begged for mercy as a group of men bashed her over the head with rocks.
In a video shot on Feb. 15, dos Santos crouched on the ground, her ripped clothes hanging from her slender frame. Blood trickled down her face as four men taunted, kicked and beat her. Eventually, when she was no longer able to move, the men picked her up, placed her in a wheelbarrow and took her to an alleyway €” where they shot and killed her.
Dos Santos's gruesome killing has shaken Brazil and sparked a national conversation about the rising number of murders of transgender people. The video, seen more than 170,000 times, horrified Brazilians and was widely shared by celebrities and LGBT organizations, who called for greater protections for one of Brazil€™s most marginalized groups. Several public officials have also condemned violence against sexual minorities. But even as the transgender movement gains more support, it is also clashing with Brazil€™s religious and patriarchal roots.
Brazil leads the world in transgender murders. According to Rede Trans, a Brazilian organization that monitors attacks on transgender people, 144 transgender people were killed there in 2016 €” more than double the number in 2008, when the site began tracking the data.
At first glance, the spike in transgender murders is perplexing. Transgender people have greater visibility in Brazil than in many other developing countries, and Brazil is home to two of the world€™s most famous transgender models. Valentina Sampaio, a 22-year-old from Ceara €” the same state as Dos Santos €” was the first transgender model to make the cover of Vogue magazine. Brazilians also watch the largest amount of trans pornography, according to a 2016 study conducted by adult video website RedTube.
But while same-sex marriage is legal in Brazil and homosexuality has been decriminalized, there is no national legislation punishing hate crimes against people because of their sexual orientation. When they are reported, LGBT organizations say, such crimes are often ignored by authorities.
The influence of Brazil€™s rising evangelical movement is one of the biggest obstacles blocking a hate crimes law. An endorsement from a popular minister can generate a wave of donations and votes that can decide an election. As a result, a strong Christian lobby €” making up nearly one-fifth of legislators €” has emerged in Brazil€™s Congress.
That lobby has been fighting sexual anti-discrimination laws, which they see as hindering their freedoms of expression and religion. They have already stopped anti-LGBT hate crimes bills several times, but activists are hoping dos Santos€™s case renews demand for the law.
€œThe video shocked society. It generated a commotion,€ said Sayonara Nogueira, a researcher at Rede Trans. €œAnd unfortunately in Brazil, laws often happen after a commotion.€
In 2006, Brazil passed the Maria da Penha law, an anti-domestic violence law named for a woman who was paralyzed after her husband shot her in a highly publicized case. Organizations like Rede Trans are hoping that dos Santos€™s brutal murder will serve a similar purpose.
In an effort to fight that complacency and expose the plight of sexual minorities in Brazil, the country€™s LGBT Alliance launched a website called €œWhom has homophobia killed today?€ The site tracks murders in Brazil targeting LGBT victims, which are normally swept under the rug.
€œDandara€™s murder shocked people because the perpetrators made the grim decision to film it. That€™s the only reason we are seeing this repercussion,€ said Toni Reis, the director of the LGBT Alliance. €œThe sad reality is that what happened to her is a commonplace act. We see it every day.€
But to effect real change, LGBT groups in Brazil need to parlay the sympathy generated by dos Santos€™s murder into political action, on scale with their opposition.
€œI have faith,€ Reis said. €œOur opposition is organized but the barbarity of this crime has everyone speaking out.€

[George Pill]

They should move to Thailand to live and work.

[George Pill]

On the other hand she probably was a chronic criminal who could not be cured even by repeated prison stays. Cops decided it was more efficient to kill her. Cops kill like crazy as a solution to overcrowded prisons and overworked policing. Remember the famous church massacre where sleeping street children were shot and killed. Cops and public were getting sick of them stealing from stores and tourists on beaches. Surprisingly the public applauded their actions. Cops were tried and acquitted. You can rent the movie BUS 174 or buy it for $15 on Amazon.com. It was a real eye opener and one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. World is getting too crowded.

[rxpharm]

Come on George Pill, pay some attention to the story - those guys were NOT cops, and you are assuming she was a criminal - probably she was a regular tg sex worker as there are many in Brazil. As for the world being too crowded, as we need to do is have Trump put North Korea over the edge and there will be plenty of room left on this planet after the radiation levels drop back down.

[George Pill]

No. Brazil cops are corrupt and will go undercover to beat up, torture, and kill people they don't like. They have licenses to kill. Wild West style justice. I once complained that a group of black men tried to rob me. Cops don't speak English, but only one accompanied me to the site. Found nobody. Talked in Portuguese to the hot dog stand man and left me behind. Had to run back to my hotel. Cooled off and went to the Help Disco to have a drink. The next night I walked on the same Aventida de Atlantica Blvd. As I was nearing the same crime scene I felt someone was behind me. It was a small black unmarked are following me on the sidewalk. It quickly sped up and swerved past me. Another black car met him from the opposite direction and they were cornering a group of black guys. Cops got out of the car and started yelling at them to put their hands up on the wall. No weapons. then they started kicking them in the nuts from behind and kicking the insides of their thighs. Whoa! You cannot do this in the USA. I quickly continued my walk away from the scene. When anybody tells you their cops are corrupt, you better believe it. Young boys who are booted out of the favellas become killers because they have nothing to lose. They will drive up to the cop's front gate and shoot them in the face. It's WAR. It's not only the Travestis they are killing. It's also prostitutes, kids, drug dealers, contract killers, rapists, etc. This is what anarchy looks like. Oh yeah. Once I went to the police department to report a pickpocketing. You know what the pot-bellied cop said to me through his sleepy eyes? "When are you leaving?" FARK U MUTHUHFUGGERS!. Never went back again. Good to go there at least once to see what's there to see and do. Best things about Rio? The Sugar Load Mountains and the Cristor Rendentor giant statue. Unbelievable.