30/12/2024 | Writer: Kaos GL
Istanbul Trans Pride Week announced that a man demanded money from a trans woman on the street and stabbed her when she refused.
According to the social media post of Istanbul Trans Pride Week, a trans woman was attacked with a knife at around 4.30 pm on Friday, 27 December. In Istanbul, a man demanded money from a trans woman on the street and stabbed her when she refused to give him money.
Trans Pride Week announced that the trans woman who was attacked went to Beyoğlu Police Station and filed a complaint, but the complaints of other trans women who were stabbed by the same person were not received and the police kicked the women out of the police station.
Trans Pride Week criticised this attitude of the police in its social media post as follows
"Sex worker trans women are subjected to knife attacks just for standing on the street. The state and its pawn, law enforcement, do not take the statements of those who want to file a complaint and send them back into violence. Although the perpetrator is a male, who has committed this attack many times, the state pats the perpetrator on the back. The guards, who harassed the living spaces of sex worker trans women every minute under the pretext of GBT, somehow disappeared in those minutes."
Trans Pride Week also stated that the trans woman who was attacked was in good health and that they would follow the process:
‘Neither the men you reward with impunity, which is the most usual result of the system you have created, nor you will not be able to displace us, we will not leave!’
Click-Attack on trans woman on the street in Izmir caught on camera
Transphobic attack in Izmir
On the other hand, another hate attack targeting trans women on Bornova Street in Alsancak neighbourhood of Izmir was added. On 22 December, a trans woman standing on the street was punched by one of the two passing men for no reason and continued on his way.
The 20 November Association, which was established against hate attacks in Izmir in the past months, made the footage public.
The association reminded that hate attacks have escalated in Bornova Street and its surroundings and said, ‘The latest incident reveals the terrible dimensions of hate policies that threaten the right to life of trans women. A trans woman waiting in front of her own house was subjected to physical violence. This attack once again shows how hate policies endanger social life. We call out to the elements of the system that make this situation possible: The hate policies you fuelled are killing us.’
Tags: human rights, women
