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Sadly, 2020 has already seen at least 45 transgender or gender-expansive people fatally shot or killed by other violent means, the majority of which were Black and Latine transgender women.…
In 2019, at least 25 transgender or gender non-conforming people were fatally shot or killed by other violent means.*
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…
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…
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 people, we mourn those we have lost.
Sadly, 2016 has already seen at least 16 transgender people fatally shot, stabbed and killed by other violent means. As HRC continues to work toward justice and equality for transgender…
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…
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