Naomi Hersi, transwoman murdered in London

Agree that what happened to Niaomi Hersi was horrible, although I have seen plenty of coverage. Don't think that makes it any better though.

for Niaomi's friends and family

Tragic - thoughts with Naomi and her family

The irony is that TRAs almost always support 'sex work' and claim feminists who're against it are old-fashioned conservatives. They can't see how damaging it is.

Naomi appears to have identified as trans for at least seven years, twitter.com/naomi_hersi/status/24971420052230144 my guess is the initial ID as 'Mr.' was just (understandably) following legal ID.

It's also notable that the victim was initially reported as Mr Hersi Hersi.
It's unclear whether he considered himself trans or whether he cross dressed part time as 'Naomi', but it seems he retained his male name and identity at least to some extent.

I sincerely hope there aren't cynical attempts to posthumously trans him to exploit an agenda. This is a horrible enough crime of murder without vultures using his death to make a point.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murdered_sex_workers_in_the_UK

Prostitution is a profession where women are at very high risk of rape, assault and murder.

It would be interesting to see the murder rates of British prostitutes who are women and the rates of transwomen who are prostitutes.

Any murder is a tragedy. For any victim to be 'paraded' by interest groups as proof of their particular view of the world is distasteful.

Yes I think it's fair to say that if anything, Naomi is a victim of homophobia, and not transphobia - I saw the thread on the UK Somali forum about Naomi's death, and it was horrific.

I don't see really any commonality between people like Naomi coming from a culture where homosexuality may be punished by death www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/young-somali-activist-sentenced-to-death-for-being-a-lesbian-a6844216.html and the likes of Jane Fae, aggressive white male late-transitioners performing femininity.

Naomi may have been forced into being trans due to homophobia.

I really dislike how many TRAs are using Naomi's murder to further their own "trans women are murdered every day" agenda. I've seen a lot of it on Twitter. I find it very disrespectful to Naomi and her family. sad

This, it’s grim.

I am so sorry to see another person murdered, another life taken at the hands of a man.
I had actually seen a fair bit of coverage of this case. I feel terribly sorry for the victim and their family.

Awful to hear about another woman lost to male violence. May she rest in peace

It doesn't appear to be that difficult to have found her.

www.facebook.com/romina.kalaci

It seems she was rather easily written off as a 'murdered prostitute'

I found a picture of Romina in the Italian press. www.ladige.it/news/cronaca/2017/05/30/morta-romina-kalaci-ex-cameriera-randr

The UK don't seem to have bothered.

global homicide rate is 7.6 per 100,000 per year, so out of 8.8 million people that's 669 murders, or 25 per 2 weeks. UK murder rate is much lower - around 1 per 100,000, but clearly London is a city and murder rates are going to be much higher than a quiet village or somewhere.

London has had 10 people murdered in the last two weeks - quite horrific. It's a shocking statistic.

TRAs are claiming that a) this was a transphobic murder, b) it's part of an epidemic of transphobic murders and c) it was ignored by the press. Those last two are definitely false, the first one probably false too. Hersi was killed in a hotel room by an acquaintance.

I've seen quite a lot of coverage of this, more than I have for lots of other murders, but I fully agree that we need standardised reporting that highlights the action of the perpetrator more than the victim - e.g. Man murders transwoman.

That is the only way to highlight who is committing these awful crimes.

Thoughts with Naomi's friends and family

I looked it up.

When I google her name I only get photos of her killer. None of romina.

murderer got 24 years, obv. courtnewsuk.co.uk/naked-killer-gets-24-years/

She was brutally murdered and sentenced to 24 years in prison.

Nobody talking about gynaephobia/misogyny in her killing. But you invariably get talk about transphobia when transpeople are killed.

E.g., this story claims

www.dailyitem.com/opinion/columns/shapiro-tilts-at-imaginary-transgender-enemies/article_769148dd-ddfc-564c-8ae9-8a26524f84e4.html

"Twenty-two transgender people were murdered in 2017 in the United States purely for their gender."

which is not true - 22 is the total number of murders of known transgender people, but that doesn't mean they were murdered for their gender. Most won't have been.

I've never heard of Romina Kalachi.

Romina Kalachi was killed last June, she was also a London sex worker. She did not even make it into the national papers.

I'd seen at least 3 articles in national online newspapers this last week - without googling or looking at all, just general browsing... so the idea that it's not been covered simply isn't true.

Now, the coverage was written just as news, a concise, factual report there wasn't any wailing or gnashing of teeth which the twitterers seem to be wanting - perhaps that's their problem (rather than the male violence which is the real problem of course)

My impression from Twitter is that transactivists are trying to claim that all murders of trans-identifying people are because of transphobia and are thus hate crimes fuelled by the utterances of gender critical people. Sadly, the reality is that just like everyone else transwomen who are sex workers are at high risk of male violence. Also, domestic violence.

For what it's worth op can you name other women murdered in the UK this year? In the last month? I follow Karen so I can but they are not widely reported. So many males and transwomen were tweeting as they were outraged by Naomi's death, other women not so much. Most blamed the press or feminists for her death, but not men. The men and the transwomen did not name or blame the sex that causes all these unnecessary deaths...why is that?

I really dislike how many TRAs are using Naomi's murder to further their own "trans women are murdered every day" agenda. I've seen a lot of it on Twitter. I find it very disrespectful to Naomi and her family.