tgeu Monitoring transphobic incidents Introduction S ince 2008, Transgender Europe search in the 12 months prior to the sur- The present booklet aims to provide an in- (TGEU) has been a pioneer in re- vey. Every fifth transgender person also troduction to the topic of monitoring dis- search on trans people’s experience of reported discrimination in healthcare set- crimination, hate speech and hate crimes violence and crime: its Trans Murder Mon- tings, which rate is twice as high as among by defining the most common terms and itoring (TMM) Project has documented those who don’t identify as transgender. present guidelines on how to use the on- 1,518 cases of murdered trans persons line monitoring tool developed by TGEU in five years (89 in Europe).1 In 2012, the The FRA concludes that the most fre- in partnership with its LGBT and trans EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s (FRA) quent reasons for not reporting were a be- partner organisations. We acknowledge LGBT survey2 also identified transgender lief that “nothing would change”, a lack of that setting up a monitoring scheme and persons as particularly vulnerable to hate knowledge about how or where to report accompanying victim support services is crimes and unlikely to report them. One an incident and fear of homophobic or an enormous task that requires careful of the most shocking results is that 35 per transphobic reactions from the police. In resource planning and expertise. Howev- cent of the respondents had been attacked line with the FRA’s recommendations on er, we still attempt to highlight some key or threatened with violence in the five focusing on improving the reporting rates issues and showcase one hopefully use- years before the survey was carried out. of hate crimes and improving systematic ful tool for those groups and civil-society recording, TGEU has gradually been plac- organisations that want to improve their The results also shed light on the extent ing more emphasis on monitoring and re- monitoring and reporting activities and to which trans people face bias-motivat- porting transphobic incidents in the form engage in comparative data collection at ed discrimination in different areas of of discrimination, hate speech and hate the European level. life, including employment, education, crimes. By working together with LGBT healthcare, housing and other services. and trans groups and NGOs within the Transgender respondents, as well as les- framework of the ProTrans project (see bian and bisexual women, were more more in The ProTrans project section), we likely than gay and bisexual men to have wish to provide systematic and credible been discriminated against on the basis of data needed to improve public policies to their gender in the 12 months preceding prevent and tackle discrimination and vio- the survey. Furthermore, almost a third lence against trans people. of responding trans persons felt discriminated against in their employment or job 1) For more information on the project, see http://www.transrespect-transphobia.org/en_US/tvt-project/tmm-results.htm 2) https://fra.europa.eu/en/survey/2012/eu-lgbt-survey 4 5