Fatal Violence Against the Transgender Community in 2018
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As HRC continues to work toward justice and equality for transgender people, we mourn those we have lost.
As HRC continues to work toward justice and equality for transgender and gender-expansive people, we mourn those we have lost.
In 2018, advocates tracked at least 26 deaths of at…
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Last Updated: June 11, 2020
Anti-LGBTQ+ bias and access to guns are the taking live of countless LGBTQ+ people.
In 2015, at least 21 transgender people have been victims of fatal violence in the United States, more killings of transgender people than any other year on record. More transgender…
At least 22 transgender people have been killed in the United States since the beginning of 2018 — 82 percent of them were women of color; 64 percent were under…
In 2019, at least 25 transgender or gender non-conforming people were fatally shot or killed by other violent means.*
As of November 20, 2020, Transgender Day of Remembrance, at least 37 transgender and gender non-conforming people were victims of fatal violence — more than the Human Rights Campaign has…
Since 2013, HRC and other advocates have tracked 256 cases of known fatal violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people in 37 states, territories and the District of Columbia, across…
Since 2013, HRC and other advocates have tracked 304 cases of fatal violence against transgender and gender nonconforming people across 30 states and 113 cities nationwide. Although each case is…
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