34
10/11/2016
night: 9 pm to 5 am
Nis
Near home
Assault
Perpetrators (same as the ones from last year's incident when the victim was attacked) physically attacked the victim, who
went to a nearby bakery, shouting: ''What happened with the thing from last year?''
History of previous
bias-motivated
incidents, Victim
perception
Gender identity/Gender
expression
Same perpetrators as in the attack one
year ago, who targeted victim based on
his gender identity.
Victim, media
Private individuals
3 male-perceived individuals
Incident was reported to the police,
their reaction is unknown.
Unknown
35
9/30/2016
night: 9 pm to 5 am
Belgrade
Home
Assault, Threats and/or
psychological violence
Trans woman suffered verbal and physical assault by her parents because she is not a ''real man''. Assault happened when
she came home from a night out.
Language used,
victim perception
Gender identity/Gender
expression
Person was verbally insulted based on her
gender identity (''You're not real man'',
''you tranny!'') etc. and then physically
attacked by parents.
Victim
Parents
Mother and father of the person
reporting the incident
--
--
Gender identity/Gender
expression
Perpetrators referred to propaganda of
promoting homosexuality (used for
describing being transgender as well).
Victim
Gang
4 male-perceived attackers
--
increased level of anxiety, increased precautions
taken
Incidents from Russia, recorded by LAVERNA within the framework of TGEU's Eastern European Partnership Project
36
3/9/2016
evening: 5 pm to 9 pm
Siberia region
Near home
Assault, Threats and/or
psychological violence
4 men met the victim, an intersex man near the entrance of his home and began to threaten him that they would kill him if he
Language used,
did not finish "propaganda". They did not let him into through the entrance, pushed, tried several times to hit his face. The
victim perception
victim pulled out a knife and said he would fight if they did not allow him to go home.
37
1/2/2016
night: 9 pm to 5 am
Siberia region
Home, sex worker venue
Sexual assault
A trans woman sex worker was invited to the apartment of a client, she was raped and beaten up. All of it was filmed on a
videocamera.
Victim perception,
Gender identity/Gender
organised hate group expression
Victim felt she was targeted for being a
trans sex worker.
Victim
Organised hate group
Middle aged men, calling themselves
-"Occupy Pedophilia"
Shock, trauma of intestinal tract, multiple bruises
all over the body, 2 teeth knocked out,
concussion.
38
3/2/2016
afternoon: 12 pm to 5 pm
Siberia region
School
Assault, Threats and/or
psychological violence
It was found out in school that X. is a transgender person. 4 classmates locked him in the school bathroom in order to "clear
his head". He was beaten up and was forced to say on camera that he is a "pervert".
Language used,
victim perception
Gender identity/Gender
expression
Language used clearly shows bias
motivation.
Victim
Students
4 schoolmates
--
X. was forced to change schools, he developed
panic attacks, started loosing his breath from fear,
deleted his account from social networks, and had
a suicide attempt.
39
1/2/2016
night: 9 pm to 5 am
Siberia region
Transport vehicle
Sexual assault, Threats
and/or psychological
violence
Returning home late at night in a taxi, the taxi driver's started to ask intimidating questions: "are you a boy?" x ignored all
questions. The taxi driver started to reach out to her feet. X removed his hand, but the taxi driver kept trying to touch her. He
drove to a deserted street, closed the car and raped x. He was threatening her with a knife. After the sexual assault, the taxi
driver drove her home and dropped her off.
Language used,
victim perception
Gender identity/Gender
expression
Language used clearly shows bias
motivation.
Victim
Private individual
taxi driver
--
Internal intestinal damage, depression, fear of
getting HIV.
40
9/7/2016
afternoon: 12 pm to 5 pm
Siberia region
School
Threats and/or
psychological violence,
Cyber hate
Language used,
Schoolmates learned that victim was a transgender woman and began insulting her every possible moment. Classmates
Victim perception,
locked her in the closet, spread pictures of her with various humiliating texts and told her parents that "their son is a pervert".
Witness perception
Gender identity/Gender
expression
Language used online and face-to-face
interactions clearly shows anti-trans bias
motivation.
Victim
Schoolmate
3-4 schoolmates
--
41
2/19/2016
evening: 5 pm to 9 pm
Siberia region
Apartment of client
Serious bodily harm
(physical violence),
Sexual assault
Trans woman sex worker was beaten and sexually abused by a customer who forcibly held her at home during the day. He hit
her several times in the stomach, in the head. Then raped her several times. After x fainted, she woke up on the street on the
far side of town.
Victim perception
Gender identity/Gender
expression, Sex work status
Victim felt that the crime was biasmotivated.
Victim
Client of sex worker
--
--
42
3/25/2016
evening: 5 pm to 9 pm
Siberia region
Near sex work venue
Assault
Trans woman sex worker attacked by two men while walking on the street to meet another sex workers. They shouted at her
that she was "queer," "cocksucker" and tried to grab her hand. X managed to hit one of the attackers and escape.
Language used,
victim perception
Gender identity/Gender
expression, Sex work status
Language used clearly indicate anti-sex
worker and anti-trans hatred.
Victim
Private individuals
2 men, about 20-22 years. Dressed in
-a dark sports clothing.
After the incident, victim had to be accompanied
by a friend, heightened sense of anxiety, fear.
43
3/24/2016
evening: 5 pm to 9 pm
Siberia region
Home, Near home, LGBTIQ
organisation building
Threats and/or
psychological violence
Intersex male victim was threatened by physical attacks on the street, near his apartment. He has faced constant stalking,
attempts to break into his apartment.
Organised hate
groups, Victim
perception, Witness
perception
Gender identity/Gender
expression
Victim perceived the threats as motivated
based on his gender identity/expression.
Victim
Organised hate group
Organised group "Occupy
Pedophilia". The goal of the group is
to assault and abuse LGBTQI and
primarily trans/intersex people.
--
Victim was forced to change his place of living,
experienced anxiety.
44
3/9/2016
evening: 5 pm to 9 pm
Siberia region
Public space
Serious bodily harm
(physical violence)
X was beaten by 2 men nearby the train station. The men were drunk and wanted to talk to X. When he said that he is not
interested in talking to them, one man hit him on the head. X does not remember much about the rest of the incident. His
wallet was stolen.
Victim perception
Gender identity/Gender
expression
Victim perceived the incident as hatemotivated.
Victim
Private individuals
2 young men who were drunk
Incident was reported to the police.
Victim's wallet and passport were stolen. He
suffered concussion.
45
3/27/2016
morning: 5 am to 12 pm
Siberia region
Work
Threats and/or
psychological violence,
Abusive behaviour,
Discriminatory incidents
X was working in the HR department of a consulting company. After she started hormone therapy, her colleagues began
noticing changes. They stopped talking to hear and began humiliating her publicly. As a result, her boss forced her to resign
and did not pay her the salary for that month. She was threatened with sexual and physical abuse.
Victim perception
Gender identity/Gender
expression
Victim perceived that the incident was
connected to her transition.
Victim
Co-workers, Employer (superior) --
--
Losing a job and income, starting sex work,
depression.
46
2/12/2016
morning: 5 am to 12 pm
Siberia region
Airport
Threats and/or
psychological violence
x wast going through the passport control in Omsk airport, flying off to Moscow. The photograph in the passport of X was very
different from their gender expression. The officer at the passport control said out loud the passport name to other officers
and rudely led X to be body searched, which was accompanied by insults and humiliation.
Language used,
victim perception
Gender identity/Gender
expression
Language used indicates anti-trans bias.
Victim
Public officials
Public officials
--
x was late for the flight, had the financial loss,
went through serious stress, had depression after
the incident.
47
3/9/2016
evening: 5 pm to 9 pm
Siberia region
Near home
Assault, Threats and/or
psychological violence
X. started hormone therapy a year before the incident following consultations with doctors. At school his classmates started
noticing the changes in his appearance and behavior. For 2 months, 2 of his classmates were verbally abusing him, making
his life at school almost unbearable. At the end, 2 classmates beat him up near by his house. While beating him, they were
screaming that X is a "lesbian, not really a man". X. told his parents that he fell from the stairs.
Timing, Language
used, Victim
perception
Gender identity/Gender
expression
Timing (close to X's transition), language
used indicate bias involved.
Victim
Schoolmates
2 choolmates
--
Multiple injuries, concussion, depression, anxiety,
changing the place of living.
48
3/31/2016
evening: 5 pm to 9 pm
Siberia region
Home
Serious bodily harm
(physical violence),
Sexual assault, Threats
and/or psychological
violence
Х. has started hormone therapy and his ex-boyfriend found out about it. His ex-boyfriend was very religious and thought that
Timing, Degree of
X is committing a sin. As the result the ex-boyfriend set a meeting with X. at his home. When X. came, his boyfriend took out a
violence, Victim
knife and started threatening him, saying that he will kill X. After half an hour of threats he forced him to take off his clothes
perception
and raped him. X. was lying in that apartment all night and in the morning he managed to find a key and run away.
Gender identity/Gender
expression
The timing (close to X's transition start),
language used show that the incident was
bias-motivated.
Victim
Ex-partner
Ex-partner
--
Numerous suicide attempts, panic attacks,
unability to conentrate, constant fear, inner
injureis of vagina, bleedings.
Incidents from Russia, recorded by TGEU's Trans Murder Monitoring project
Disclosure of gender identity, depression, desire to
attempt suicide, quarrels with parents.
Fracture of the nose, multiple bruises, headaches,
concussion after the incident.