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![]() Since 2013, nearly one-fifth of those whose killer is known were killed by an intimate partner.Īmong them is Ray Muscat, 26, who was fatally shot by his girlfriend in May in Michigan.įewer deaths have been reported than at the time of the publication of last year’s report - 47. Other victims were killed by a person they knew. The report found that 15 trans people have been killed by police or while incarcerated in jails, prisons or ICE detention centers since 2013, including two this year. The data does not encompass those who died by suicide, which has also been documented at significantly higher rates among LGBTQ people than in the general population. The Human Rights Campaign notes that the number of fatalities is likely an undercount because the deaths of trans people often go unreported or the victims are misgendered in news or police reports. ![]() This week is Transgender Awareness Week and leads into Sunday’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, an international observance honoring those killed by anti-transgender violence and drawing attention to the threats trans people face. READ MORE: Transgender kids tend to maintain their identities as they grow up, study suggests The victims have been “overwhelmingly Black, under 35 and killed with a firearm,” the report states.īlack transgender women, such as Shawmaynè Giselle Marie, a 27-year-old nursing assistant killed in June in Gulfport, Mississippi, comprise 63 percent of all recorded victims since 2013. ![]() The Human Rights Campaign has documented at least 302 violent deaths of transgender and gender-nonconforming people since the LGBTQ advocacy organization began tracking such fatalities in 2013 - the same year the FBI began tracking hate crimes against transgender people. Trans women are disproportionately represented, as they have been in years past, also comprising 81 percent of the deaths recorded at the time of publication. Transgender people of color account for 81 percent of known victims this year, and 59 percent were Black. At least 32 transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed in the United States in 2022, the Human Rights Campaign announced Wednesday in its annual report ahead of the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
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