transfemicide

Noun

transfemicide (countable and uncountable, plural transfemicides)

1. The killing of a trans woman because of her gender identity, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.
   • When Monica Loera was shot to death near our North Austin home on January 22, her murder became the first of the nation's twenty-seven trans* homicides and the first of Texas's four transfemicides.2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism, page 145
   • In recent years, contemporary protest movements such as NiUnaMenos (NotOne[Woman]Less) have drawn attention to the country's rising number of femicides, a category that in Argentina includes transvesticides and transfemicides.2019, C. J. W.-L. Wee, “Contemporary theatre, the contemporary, and historicity”, in Helena Grehan, Peter Eckersall, editors, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, unnumbered page