Transphobic Hate Crime: Making the Invisible Visible

Giambrone, Broden

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-52667-0_7

Transphobic Hate Crime: Making the Invisible Visible

Broden Giambrone⁶

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I was walking with two friends, when a man started asking if I was a guy or a girl. When I didn’t answer and walked on, he started shouting louder, threatening to hit me. He then decided I was a girl and started singing a song about how he was going to rape me. He followed us down the road singing this song till he got bored of us not replying. – 22 year old trans man.

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Gender Identity
Hate Crime
Critical Criminology
Gender Expression
Trans People

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I was walking with two friends, when a man started asking if I was a guy or a girl. When I didn’t answer and walked on, he started shouting louder, threatening to hit me. He then decided I was a girl and started singing a song about how he was going to rape me. He followed us down the road singing this song till he got bored of us not replying. – 22 year old trans man.

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Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI), Dublin, Ireland
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Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Amanda Haynes
School of Law, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Jennifer Schweppe
Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University , Maynooth, Ireland
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Giambrone, B. (2017). Transphobic Hate Crime: Making the Invisible Visible. In: Haynes, A., Schweppe, J., Taylor, S. (eds) Critical Perspectives on Hate Crime. Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52667-0_7

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52667-0_7
Published: 29 April 2017
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