tdor: Transgender Day of Remembrance Data
In CaRdiffR/tdor: Data for the Transgender Day of Remembrance

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This data set contains information on killings and suicides of transgender people, collected for the Transgender Day of Remembrance. It includes records from 1970 to 2019.

tdor

A data frame with 3513 records and 19 variables:

Name: Name (character).
Age: Age (character), typically age in years, but may also be a range (if reports are inconsistent), or an approximation (e.g. "Approx. 30" or "Under 35").
Age min: Minium age (numeric) if this can be defined from Age.
Age max: Maxium age (numeric) if this can be defined from Age.
Photo source: URL where photo was obtained from for tdor.translivesmatter.info website.
Date: Date of death.
Month: Month of death.
Year: Year of death.
TDoR: TDoR period, see Details.
Source ref: Original news source.
Location: Location of death.
State/Province: The state or province. If 'NA', the state/province is part of 'Location'.
Country: Country where death occurred.
Country code: ISO-3 country code (three letter code).
Latitude: Latitude of location.
Longitude: Longitude of location.
Cause of death: Category of cause of death.
Description: The (markdown) description of the report. The first line is designed for use on memorial cards.
Tweet: The text of a tweet summarising the report, with hashtags but without a permalink to tdor.translivesmatter.info.
Permalink: Link to individual page on tdor.translivesmatter.info.

The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is held annually on November 20. On this day, people memorialise those who have been murdered or lost to suicide as a result of transphobia in the previous year.

The 'TDoR' variable notes the particular TDoR that a record relates to. The first TDoR was held in 1999, so 'TDoR' is missing before 1998-11-19. Until TDoR 2010, each TDoR memorialised deaths that had occurred since the last TDoR. From 2009, the Trans Murder Monitoring project from Transgender Europe (TGEU) began to release annual updates of relevant deaths. During the years #' 2011 to 2013 the period these updates covered shifted earlier in the year, to allow time for records to be checked and for the reports to be made in time for the day of remembrance itself. In these years the periods were

2011: November 20 2010 to November 14 2011.
2012: November 15 2011 to November 14 2012.
2013: November 20 2012 to November 1 2013.

From 2014 onwards the period has been from October 1 to September 30. To avoid ambiguity and allow newly discovered records to be added, the 'TDoR' variable closes the gap between 2012 and 2013, setting the end date to November 19, and assign deaths from October 1 2013 to November 1 2013 to TDoR 2014.

https://bitbucket.org/annajayne/tdor_data.

CaRdiffR/tdor documentation built on Oct. 18, 2020, 12:52 p.m.