The Eastern European Partnership Project Since 2008, Transgender Europe (TGEU) has been a pioneer in research on trans people’s lived experiences of violence and crime: its Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) project has documented a total of 2,264 reported killings of trans and gender-diverse people in 68 countries worldwide between 1st of January 2008 and 30th of September 2016.1 Anti-trans violence has also become the focus of attention in European and international policy discussions and research in recent years. In 2012, the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency’s (FRA) LGBT survey2 identified transgender persons as particularly vulnerable to hate crimes and unlikely to report them. One of the survey’s most shocking results is that “ 35 per cent of the respondents had been attacked or threatened with violence in the five years before the survey was carried out. ” The results also shed light on the extent to which trans people face bias-motivated discrimination in different areas of life, including employment, education, healthcare, housing and other services. Transgender respondents, as well as lesbian and bisexual women, were more likely than gay and bisexual men to have been discriminated against on the basis of their gender and sexual orientation in the 12 months preceding the survey. Furthermore, almost a third of the responding trans persons felt 1 http://transrespect.org/en/tmm-trans-day-remembrance-2016/ 2 https://fra.europa.eu/en/survey/2012/eu-lgbt-survey