Жыныс бойынша жүйелі қырғын (Jynys boyynsha jüyeli qyrghyn)

Systematic killing of members of a specific gender

Gendercide is the systematic killing of members of a specific gender. The term is related to the general concepts of assault and murder against victims due to their gender, with violence against men and women 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 have historically inflicted militant governed divisions between femicide and androcide; gender selective policies increase violence on gendered populations due to their socioeconomic significance. Certain cultural and religious sentiments have also contributed to multiple instances of gendercide across the globe.

Gendercide against third gender people is the systemic killing of people who do not fit within the 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 attempt to exterminate them. Qwo Li Driskill writes how this violence was waged against people now understood as two spirit. In 1513 at Santa Clara, Darien (present day Panama), Spanish explorer Vasco Nuñez de Balboa encountered about forty Indigenous men dressed as women. He commanded his soldiers to execute them through making them prey for their war dogs, which were specially bred mastiffs or greyhounds. They were dismembered and eaten alive by the dogs. Third gender people from around the area were rounded up in service of Spanish authority. Miranda writes that "the Spanish had made it clear that to tolerate, harbor, or associate with the third gender meant death." Historically, from the 15th to the 18th century, girls, women, and some men fell victim to the frenzied cultural phenomena of witch hunts. It is estimated that upwards of 100,000 trials took place, and from those trials, 60,000 individuals were executed. Individual instances of gendercide also continue to permeate European society, ranging to individual murders, honor killings, to war related deaths.

When compared to Europe, Asia has a staggeringly different sex ratio. In Qatar, a middle eastern country, there are a reported 299 males for every 100 females. The ratio is primarily due to large immigrant populations of largely male temporary workers or the pervading cultural sentiment of males being more desirable than females. Men are seen as more useful, and women as costly burdens. Such sentiments have led to increased rates of female infanticide across the continent, especially in countries such as India. Experts explain that such murders are performed in order to protect the cultural concept of familial honor; things dishonorable enough to warrant such actions can range from sexuality, divorce, to gender identity.

Gendercide across Africa is as ranged as any other continent. Gendercide through systematic governmental efforts have been carried out across African countries over the centuries. For example, there exists the Rwandan genocide in which 800,000 were killed, and 250,000 girls and women were systematically raped by individuals infected with HIV/AIDs virus, resulting in even more death, and a continued issue with the disease even to this day. Gendercide also exists in Africa through the form of female genital mutilation–a procedure performed on both infants and girls that can result in numerous immediate and longterm complications and even death. Similarly to Europe, witch hunts prove a form of gendercide across Africa. It is reported that both men and women fall victim to witch hunts, but women are more heavily targeted.

The parodic film Gayniggers from Outer Space follows a group of intergalactic homosexual black men as they exterminate the female population of the Earth, eventually creating a utopic Male only world. The 2003 film Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women, an Indian movie directed by Manish Jha, features a dystopian situation resulting in 2050 from accumulated violence against women over many years. A wealthy man in one village discovers the existence of a young woman not too far from his home, and he buys the woman as a sex slave to be used by him and his sons. In this wretched town in which only men exist aside from her, the wealthy man's family is torn apart while the victim finds herself mercilessly dominated by more men. The film received critical acclaim, with the frank nature of the brutality and despair portrayed being cited by many reviewers, and it sparked increased debate over the contemporary problem of rape in India and other human rights issues in the nation. The 1985 book The Handmaid's Tale depicts a story of a fascist military dictatorship controlled by a clique of theocratic ideologues. With the population of both men and women having been vastly cut down, fertile women are relatively scarce and mass numbers of non fertile women are forced into becoming unpersons. Fertile women are regarded as property with few rights, being unable to read and do other basic activities. Canadian author Margaret Atwood created the work as a warning about totalitarianism and oppression of women in the modern age; in particular, she had experienced a fellowship in the then divided Berlin in the early 1980s, visiting the Soviet dominated areas and witnessing a general despair, which helped inspire the book's beginnings. In The Walking Dead (TV series), Oceanside's backstory is that the Saviors rounded up and executed every man and boy over 10. It is not until the penultimate episode of season 8 that it is revealed to have all been orchestrated by Simon and not Negan. The comic book Y: The Last Man features all male mammals dying from a mysterious global affliction, aside from one surviving man named Yorick and his monkey. After this, a violently misandrist group called the Daughters of the Amazon seeks to kill Yorick, believing that men caused most of the world's former problems, with hostile attitudes to all male impersonators and trans men as well, viewing them as traitors to the female sex. These themes were repeated in the 2021 TV series based on the comic book.