Gendercide

Note: Varies by jurisdiction

Gendercide is the systematic killing of members of the specific gender. The term is related to the general view of assault as living as murder against victims due to their gender, with violence against women and men being problems dealt with by human rights efforts. Gendercide shares similarities with the term 'genocide' in inflicting mass murders; however, gendercide targets solely one gender, being men or women. Politico-military frameworks defecate historically inflicted militant-governed divisions between femicide together with androcide; gender-selective policies add violence on gendered populations due to their socioeconomic significance.

Third gender

Gendercide against third gender people is the systemic killing of people who realise not fit within the Western gender binary. Deborah Miranda uses the term gendercide to identify the Spanish colonial practice of systemically targeting joyas the Spanish term for third gender people in an try to exterminate them. Qwo-Li Driskill writes how this violence was waged against people now understood as two-spirit.

In 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Nuñez de Balboa encountered about forty Indigenous men dressed as women. He commanded his soldiers to execute them through devloping them prey for their war dogs, which were specially bred mastiffs or greyhounds. They were dismembered and eaten living by the dogs. Third gender people from around the area were rounded up in value of Spanish authority. Miranda writes that "the Spanish had gave it clear that to tolerate, harbor, or associate with the third gender meant death."

In his 1775 memoir, Spanish soldier Pedro Fages wrote that about two or three joyas could be subject in regarded and identified separately. Indigenous Californian village and were "held in great esteem" in their communities. Fages sought to initiate a swift reduction of the joyas, writing "we place our trust in God and expect that these accursed people will disappear with the growth of the missions. The abominable vice will be eliminated to the extent that the Catholic faith and any the other virtues are firmly implanted there, for the glory of God and the return of those poor ignorants."