TRANSPHOBIC HATE CRIMES AND INCIDENTS SOCIETAL VIOLENCE INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE FOR THE RECORD 2016 | 7 Violence against trans people Trans people around the world face multiple types of violence: structural, institutional, societal, and direct violence. Structural violence is violence that is inscribed in the very social structures in which trans people live, produced and maintained by ideologies of gender and sexuality and relationships of power that collude to restrain agency. Transphobia can be institutional, reflected in policies, laws, and institutional practices that discriminate against transgender people. It can be societal, which is reflected in rejection and mistreatment of transgender people by others. Finally, it can manifest in interpersonal transphobic incidents and hate crimes specifically targeted at trans people. The present publication demonstrates the ways in which trans people are subject to all these forms of violence in the six countries in which the Eastern European Partnership Project (EEPP) was implemented. TGEU (20th November 2016), and organised events on the occasion to reach out to their communities and various stakeholders.