Transgender Death and Violence
The first thing you should know: data collection about violent crimes against transgender people is incomplete and unreliable. The deaths of trans victims often goes unreported or misreported. Of the 32 known transgender homicide victims of 2024, 38% of them were deadnamed and misgendered by authorities and press. Victims are commonly not identified as transgender initially, and victims are in varying levels of coming out. Some are out socially and legally out, some are socially out but haven’t changed their documents, some are only out in private, etc. This means the number of trans people who have been murdered in the United States is undercounted. The second thing you should know: This isn’t something we can understand if we just talk about being transgender. 61% of transgender victims of fatal violence since 2013 are Black transgender women, so we must consider the intersection between race and gender when understanding the violence we face. We also need to understand how race...