• 2010 – Victoria Carmen White, an African American transgender woman, was murdered in
New Jersey, US, on 12 September 2010. Alrashim Chambers was brought to trial for her death, but he was acquitted; he blamed another man, Marquise Foster, for the murder. The only motive suggested was
transphobic violence; "You a dude?" was heard by White's friends (who were in an adjacent room) shortly before gunshots were fired. • 2011 – Dee Dee Pearson, an African American transgender woman, was murdered in
Kansas City, Missouri, US, on 24 December 2011. Kenyon Jones confessed to the murder, telling police that he had paid Pierson for sex, and after he found out she was transgender, he killed her in anger. He was convicted of second degree murder and armed criminal action, and was sentenced to 30 years in jail. • 2011 – Svetlana was a transgender woman from
Moscow, Russia. She was beaten to death with a shovel by two people, who had intended to have sex with her. It was suggested that they were motivated to kill her after they learned she was transgender. • 2012 – Brandy Martell, a black trans woman, was shot dead on 29 April 2012 while sitting in a car with her friends in
Oakland, California. Police said the shooting followed an argument with her killer, who became enraged when he realized she was transgender. The killer was identified as Malique Parrott, who was himself murdered two months later. • 2013 – Carmen Guerrero, a transgender woman was killed by her cellmate, Miguel Crespo, at
Kern Valley State Prison in California's
Central Valley. • 2013 –
Islan Nettles, a 21-year-old African American transgender woman, was beaten to death in
Harlem, New York, on 17 August after a group of at least seven men accosted her and two of her transgender friends. One of the men, James Dixon, had been flirting with her. After he realized she was transgender, he struck her. After falling down, Dixon proceeded to beat her. She died of head injuries in hospital. Her death prompted a number of protests. On 21 April 2016, Dixon was sentenced 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter. • 2013 –
Dwayne Jones, a Jamaican 16-year-old, was beaten, stabbed, and run over by a car in
Montego Bay on 22 July 2013, after attending a party in women's clothing for the first time. • 2014 –
Jennifer Laude was murdered in
Olongapo, Philippines, on 11 October. Joseph Scott Pemberton was convicted of the murder. Pemberton reportedly killed her after discovering she was transgender. • 2014 – Çağla Joker was fatally shot in Istanbul on 21 April, while another transgender woman survived. The suspects claimed that they initially wanted sexual relations with her and her friend, but shot both when they discovered they were transgender. • 2014 – Kimberly Sody, a 28-year-old transfeminine sex worker, was beaten to death in a hotel room in
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. After beating her into a coma from which she never recovered, her attackers specifically cut her long hair, which was cited as evidence of transphobic motivation. • 2014 –
Cenida Ramos, aged 18, was fatally stabbed and left to die on the sidewalk of Elston Kerr Street in
Belize City, Belize on 12 January by two male suspects. Family and
LGBTQ rights organisations suspected a hate crime, but police pointed to armed robbery as motive. • 2015 – Mercedes Williamson, aged 17, was stabbed and beaten to death with a
claw hammer in
George County, Mississippi on 30 May 2015 by her boyfriend Joshua Vallum. Vallum was a member of the
Latin Kings gang, which forbids homosexual activity, and was forced to kill Williamson, a pre-operative transgender woman, when other members found out. Vallum was convicted of both state murder charges, for which he received life imprisonment without parole, • 2015 –
Diana Sacayán, a 39-year-old trans rights activist from Argentina, was murdered in her apartment in
Flores, Buenos Aires by two assailants. One of Sacayán's murderers, Gabriel David Marino, was convicted in a landmark ruling of
travesticide, the first such ruling in Argentina. However, this element of the ruling was overturned on appeal, the court finding that there was no evidence the murder was motivated by Sacayán's gender identity. • 2016 – Paola Ledezma, a 27-year-old transgender woman who was rejected by her family and left her birthplace to become a sex worker in Mexico City, was shot on 30 September by client Arturo Felipe Delgadillo Olvera, who became angry after he found out that she was transgender. Delgadillo, an armed security guard, was released after a judge determined that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. • 2016 – Rae'Lynn Thomas, a 28-year-old African American transgender woman, was shot twice in front of her mother, and then beaten to death by James Allen Byrd in
Columbus, Ohio, on 10 August, as she begged for her life. Byrd called her "the devil" and made transphobic comments. Her family called for the murder to be investigated as a hate crime, but Ohio hate crime statutes do not cover gender identity. • 2017 – Amna, 35 years old, and Meeno, 26 years old, both
Khwaja Sara Pakistanis, were allegedly beaten to death and tortured by Saudi police in
Riyadh on 28 February. Their clothing and jewelry was also confiscated by the police. • 2017 – Chanda Sharmeeli, a 30-year-old transgender woman, was shot dead in
Karachi, Pakistan, sometime on 30 August or early morning 31 August. She had been with a gathering of other trans people discussing what they believed to be a recent under-counting of Pakistan's trans community, when a gang of armed men began harassing them, and eventually shot Chanda. • 2017 – Bianca, a 32-year-old transgender
sex worker from
Caracas, Venezuela, was beaten to death by a 29-year-old client "who was shocked by her masculine features". The incident took place in her house in
Arnhem, Netherlands on 29 September 2017. • 2017 – Dandara dos Santos, a 42-year-old
travesti, was beaten and shot to death in Bom Jardim, a neighborhood in
Fortaleza,
Ceará. • 2017 – Wilka, a 40-year-old Brazilian transgender woman, was attacked and killed on 26 March in
Pernambuco, in the southern state of Loteamento Luiz Gonzaga. She suffered three stab wounds. According to a friend she was murdered when someone realized that she was transgender whilst attempting to rob her. • 2018 – Following a false rumor that transgender women were kidnapping children for sex trafficking in
Hyderabad, India, four transgender women were attacked by a mob on 26 May 2018. One of the women died. Local police issued an "Appeal to Public" saying that the rumors of criminal involvement by transgender women were "fake", and that the public should not "take law into your hands ... so that innocents won't become a victim of those rumors anymore." • 2018 – Laysa Fortuna, a 25-year-old transgender woman, was stabbed in the chest, in
Aracaju, Sergipe, on 18 October 2018. The aggressor said that if
Bolsonaro were elected president, all trans people and transvestites would be killed. Bolsonaro did not comment. • 2018 – Nataly Briyth Sánchez, an
undocumented sex worker originally from
Honduras, was murdered during a sexual encounter on 19 June in
Tapachula, Mexico. The client stabbed her to death after discovering that she was transgender. • 2018 – Kelly Stough, 36, an African American transgender woman, was murdered in
Palmer Park, Detroit, in December. Albert Weathers, 46, a preacher, has been charged with her murder, and prosecutors claim her gender identity was a motivator. • 2018 – Anastasiya Sapaeva, 43, an actress. Originally from
Velikovo, Gorokhovetsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. She was killed in 2018 in Moscow. She became a victim of bullies who did not like her appearance. • 2019 – Nikki Kuhnhausen, a 17-year-old transgender girl, was murdered by David Y. Bogdanov. Her body was identified from decayed human remains on Saturday, 7 December, in the
Larch Mountain area near
Vancouver, Washington. Authorities were able to identify the body as Kuhnhausen from personal effects; subsequent examination showed she died from strangulation. Kuhnhausen had previously been missing since 5 June (reported 10 June) when she left with David Y. Bogdanov, a 25-year-old male, who has since been charged with second degree murder. Authorities believe the suspect, looking for a sexual encounter, became enraged upon learning of her transgender status. On 26 February 2020, the
Washington State Legislature passed the Nikki Kuhnhausen Act, outlawing the use of panic defenses based on gender and sexual identities. The act preempts the trial of Kuhnhausen's alleged killer, and thus prevents the use of that defense. • 2019 – Nina Surgutskaya, 25, was killed,
dismembered, and partially cooked by her boyfriend, Mikhail Tikhonov, a doctor, in
Kursk, western Russia. He became angry upon learning that she was assigned male at birth, which was his motivation for the crime. He also flushed some of Nina's body parts down the toilet and put her limbs and head in a suitcase. • 2019 – Chynal Lindsey, 26, an African American transgender woman, was murdered by Ruben Alvarado in Dallas, Texas. Alvarado met with Lindsey for a sexual encounter and killed her upon discovering that she was a trans woman. He was convicted of first degree murder, and sentenced to 37 years in prison. • 2019 – Dime Doe, an African American transgender woman, was murdered by Daqua Lameek Ritter in
Allendale, South Carolina. Ritter did not want others to know he and Doe were having an affair. In February 2024, he was found guilty of a hate crime based on gender identity, the first such federal trial in the U.S. ==2020s==