Meaning of travesticide | Babel Free

Definitions

The killing of a travesti because of her gender, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.

Latin-America

Equivalents

Examples

“In 2018 the figure⟳ of "travesticide" (term developed by Radi and Sardá-Chandiramani 2016) was applied for the first time in Argentina during the trial for the murder⟳ of travesti activist Diana Sacayán.”

“Speaking of violence starting from femicides and travesticides positions them as its culminating point⟳, but it also poses a challenge⟳: to not limit⟳ ourselves to its necropolitical accounting, the tallying of femicides and victims.”

“In criminal law, the case of the murder⟳ of the travestite and human rights activist Dana Sacayán, has been framed by the prosecution as one of a “travesticide”, that is, a hate⟳ crime against a travestite.”

CEFR level