Violence against transgender is one form of terror against the trangender or also called transfobia. Degree vary from merely rejecting the existence, personally hate to have the heart to kill.Quoted from Transphobia.org.uk, Thursday (03/10/2011), transfobia defined as a rejection of gender expressions that are considered deviant. Among them are men who behave like women or transvestites, or vice versa ie, women who behave like men.
Gender expression that does not match their gender is motivated by a variety of reasons. Some transgender persons described his condition is like trapped in the wrong sex, for example, was born as a man even though his soul is a woman.
There is also the backdrop of a much simpler reason that is making money, as do some models of transgender and transsexual singers dressed in Jakarta.
The term is more appropriate for this group is a cross dresser, because of gender expression that made only limited appearances outside.
Transfobia emerged as transgender behavior is behavior that very often dibenturkan with social and religious norms. Consequently transgender become marginalized, hard to get a job so much that eventually must be hard living on the streets.
Not only in the form of hatred and rejection, transfobia could also be concerns in someone's mind. There are several levels or levels transfobia known, among which are as follows.
1. Personal Level
Everyone can have transfobia at this level, because it is internalized in the minds of each, so sometimes unconsciously. The shape of fear on his own condition, such as worry and fear lest he admit himself was a transgender.
2. Interpersonal Level
At this level, transfobia manifested in discriminatory attitudes and personal hatred. The inability to accept the existence of transgender persons can be realized in the most subtle forms such as advice to repent, until the forms are more rough example ridicule.
3. Community Level
Forms transfobia in social and community level intangible omission by the environment against acts of violence. Social movements opposed to the existence of transvestites are one example of transfobia at community level.
4. Systemic Level
Transfobia at the systemic level is the fear of transgender that was authorized by law, government policy and religious norms. Examples are law received waivers Gwen Araujo's killers, transgender woman in California in 2002. The inmates filed the trans panic defense, arguing that legal defense was forced to kill due to meet transgender panic time.
source: http://health.detik.com/read/2011/03/10/125959/1588625/763/benci-pada-waria-adalah-gejala-transfobia?l991101755
