Brazil had highest number of trans people murdered in 2025 - report

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This often comes up on threads. So not sure if it is the most accurate but here is one report on the number of trans people murdered in 2025.

Brazil had the highest number of trans people murdered in 2024; however, this year, the country reported 34% less murders, down from 122.

Globally, there were 281 reports of murders of trans and gender-diverse people in 2025, 90% of the victims were trans women and 88% of trans people murdered last year were Black or Brown.

68% of murders of trans people took place in Latin America and the Caribbean. Europe saw five murders while the US reported 31, down from 2024’s figure of 41.

Full articel at https://uk.news.yahoo.com/brazil-had-highest-number-trans-130329819.html which has link to actual report.

And about 4k women are murdered in Brazil annually.

In the US black community, homophobia is often stronger. Is it the same in Brazil? Might this be why there are a higher number of gay men transitioning? Also machismo culture generally in Latin American countries...

Very depressing. Transwomen are probably at more risk in Brazil to some extent but due to structural factors (sex work for one) rather than hate crime-motivated murders.

It is also clear that BG was not murdered because BG was trans.

Across the world men are more likely to be murdered than women, so the comparison with other members of their sex shows that “trans women” are not at greater risk of murder than other men.

Is it possible that you are disappointed the numbers are not higher @IndigoBluey ?

I mean, you should be thrilled. Dancing in the aisles.

Nothing so good as feeling safe.

It won't have been the first time someone has turned up here with that kind of disappointment.

The salient point, is that none of those unfortunate murders took place in the UK in the last three years, so a trans day of remembrance is irrelevant, it is virtual signalling of the worst kind.

That is what the drill down looked like.

Poverty and criminal activity to earn money appeared to be key drivers (in the US).

I think that drug dealing was seen as a contributing factor in many youngish black males too as US gun culture gave gang fights lethal outcomes. Whereas in the UK gun deaths would be mainly "limited" to key players in the drugs trade.

So murder weapon type if one is used is also something which can be examined when looking to breakdown the overall population numbers.

And yet they are not being murdered at the same rate as actual women, are they? So how are you working out that risk?

I think in the US it’s comparable some years, not others. We are talking about a very small number of trans murders so one or two extra or less makes a big difference.

I've just read it was 1470 last year, the highest to date. Waaaay higher than the 80 ladyboys being killed.

That’s just the “femicide” figure, the overall number of female homicides is about 4k, because femicide has quite a narrow definition (and varies by country I think). The comparison should be the overall figure because that’s the figure used for the number of trans murders (and the trans number has been criticised before for including suicides and even road accidents as “murder” without any robust justification).

It’s the same with the “trans kids suicide” myth. You’d think everyone would be relieved to know gender distressed children have never and are not killing themselves at an inordinate rate, but no, TRAs and their supporters seem positively annoyed about it.

I pointed out to some visiting TRA on here that statistically there wasn’t the problem they thought there was so that’s good news, surely, and they completely lost it at me.

A case of - "you want the truth? You can't handle the truth"

For statistical purposes you would need to make the comparison on a per capita basis and not simply raw numbers (as there are many times more women than TiMs).

I think we'd all concur that murder is a horrible thing- devastating for families and friends of victims, as well as society in general with dreadful statistics.

But bringing Brianna Ghey into these conversations is disrespectful to her family and friends. The tragic loss of a young person murdered by two other disturbed young people shouldn't be thrown into any debate on transpeople/murder/violence but it always is.
Brianna's mum's campaigning is about mobile phones - please correct me if I'm wrong?

It would also be important to analyse according to significant demographic factors like occupation. It seems that a high proportion of deaths are of prostituted women and trans women. If a higher proportion of transsexuals than women are involved in the sex trade you could be in danger of a Simpson's paradox outcome unless you take that into account.

At least 16 actual women or girls have been killed by men in Spain this year, in the first two months. This is why really we should be concentrating on this major problem.