via: athens.indymedia.Translated by Act for freedom now!

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On the murder of 16-year-old transgender Brianna Ghey on 12/02 in Britain

TW: Transphobic violence, murder

On Sunday 12/2, 16-year-old trans girl Brianna Ghey was murdered after a targeted stabbing attack in a public park in England. Cops and mainstream media claim that the evidence is still not enough to call it a transphobic attack. Of course, how can a targeted murderous attack on a trans person not be transphobically motivated?
In the face of the killer we see the two 15-year-olds who have so far been accused of carrying out the vile act of hate, but we also see the mainstream media – true to their role – murdering Brianna again by erasing and concealing her trans identity from the public and using her deadname.

We see the State with its policies trying to pass-and passing-laws that exclude trans people. We see the ever increasing wave of fascism in England, we see the rise of the terfs population making the ground barren for an inclusive feminist solidarity. We see the chronic demonisation of the trans community, exclusion, marginalisation, loneliness, abandonment and disregard, hatred.
Testimonies from friends confirm her traumatic past experience as a transgender individual, as she had been subjected to years of verbal bullying (online and offline), up to physical bullying after being beaten up by a group of her classmates.

Brianna’s experience, and its recent culmination in her tragic death, encapsulates a significant part of the trans and queer experience in general and highlights the collective – systemic and social – hatred of the unconventional. More specifically, however, it captures transmisogyny, the presentation of trans women as transgressive men, their exclusion from radical “feminisms”. Trans people are excluded from (non/)State structures on a daily basis and have to climb a calvary to claim treatments, legally change their name, find employment; they are bullied, fetishized, murdered on a daily basis.
Dozens of all-night rallies have been called in the UK for Brianna’s murder in various ways, with banners, candles, photographs, slogans spray painted on walls and chalked on streets and pavements.

They are also organising financial support for her family for funeral expenses. Of course the British State even expresses its hatred of her death as her death certificate will have her deadname written on it and she will be misgendered.

Every one that is lost, we do not forget. No event is silenced, no statute of limitations, no event goes unanswered.

To collectivize our grief and anger and fight for a queer trans liberation.

For Brianna and every Brianna, for us.

In a society that marginalizes and kills us, the only way to escape is to destroy that society

For a transfeminist anarchist movement against all power.

Destruction upon destruction and from (self-)destruction to creation.

Anarchist queer