They arrived at a big farm, took out my boyfriend and started beating him. They beat him and forced him into the car and drove away. I went to his house and saw a black Honda parked under his house. In late May 2020, my boyfriend was killed in front of me.

Khadija, 31-year-old Iraqi transgender woman, August 5, 2021 They sliced me up and poured around five liters of gasoline all over my body and face and set me alight…. I lay down on the garbage and they pulled out a razor blade and a screwdriver and poked and cut me all over, especially my ass, crotch, and thighs.

They told me to get up and threw me in a garbage bin…. They kicked and punched and slapped me all over my head and body. , I was on my way home when five or six men in a huge, tinted Hummer stopped me.