transfemicide

/ˌtɹænsˈfɛ.mɪ.saɪd/

transfemicide means the killing of a trans woman because of her gender identity, especially when motivated by transmisogyny. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 94 out of 100.

transfemicide is pronounced /ˌtɹænsˈfɛ.mɪ.saɪd/.

Why “transfemicide” is a great word

The murder of a trans woman, a crime specifically driven by the lethal intersection of misogyny and transphobia. From the English prefix trans- (denoting transgender identity) + femicide (from Latin femina, "woman," and -cide, from caedere, "to kill"), coined in the early 21st century by Latin American activists. Unlike "femicide," which denotes the killing of a woman because she is a woman, or the clinically neutral "homicide," transfemicide names the compounded hatred that targets a woman for the perceived transgression of her very womanhood. It is the broken makeup compact on the sidewalk, the headline that erases a chosen name, and the coroner's tag that misgenders—the final, brutal enforcement of a world that would rather see a woman dead than see her trans.

Etymology

From trans- + femicide.

noun

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.”