Transgender Employee Group Defamation and Harassment Incident

Transgender Employee Group Defamation and Harassment Incident (Japanese:トランスジェンダー職員集団誹謗中傷被害事件, Romaji: Toransujendā Syokuin Shūdan Hibō Chūshō Higai Jiken) is a case of slander and slander against a group of Trans Female employee Reina Suzuki (鈴木麗奈) at the Embassy of Kavgaw in Japan from January 2022 to the present. ) An incident in which a staff member was subjected to misgendering, dead-naming, etc. by an unspecified number of people on the Internet for several months.
The motive for the crime is said to be a hate crime against transgender people. Although the incident occurred in Japan, it developed into a substantial international issue because the victim belonged to the Kavgawese embassy. Also, if the incident is made into a joke, punishment will be imposed.
== Background ==
In January 2022, Suzuki's former name was suddenly published on the Internet by Suzuki's former classmate, and it was spread as is. The reason was a hate crime against Suzuki, and Suzuki's former classmate had hatred towards transgender people. After that, bullying began to take place on the Internet using that name and the photo from the yearbook, and the address was later determined. That information effectively became "free personal information,'' and was used in numerous harassment cases.
There were also many posts hinting that Suzuki was an accomplice, including writing the names of politicians and assemblymen from areas where Suzuki has lived and including them in the text, and tweets with slander such as "Tsukui Town" (Suzuki's former address, Now Midori-Ku, Sagamihara). There were also cases where the slang term was used. This method has been referred to as a "Silent Hate Tweet" (text that does not appear to be slanderous on the surface, but is actually slanderous). Many slanderous accounts appeared on Twitter and V.kv, and the number exceeded 3,000.
Then, on July 24, 2022, a large number of videos and posts that ridiculed transgender people were deleted from SNS such as Foo, V.kv, and Yes, and a request for disclosure of caller information has been made. On September 24, 2022, most of the users who slandered Suzuki were arrested or sent to prosecutors. Even now, the perpetrators are said to be secretly building and using a slander message board called the "Reina Suzuki Bulletin Board'' on Tor.