The HRC says that the FBI has only registered 11 anti-transgender murders or negligent homicides, showing how a lack of data at the federal levels has led to severe undercounts of deadly violence against the transgender community.
in the last year are read aloud to draw attention to the violence the community faces.
One single year does not provide a snapshot into the overall violence of the epidemic that transgender people face, and it is likely that more research will find a truer number to represent the violence faced this year. It is a sad reality that police and many news organizations regularly deadname—or share a transgender person’s given name rather than their chosen name—in coverage.
Wynston Sanders, the Southern Equality Fund Organizer at the Campaign for Southern Equality, says that these statistics show there is a component that’s a “reflection of racism, internalized homophobia, and internalized transphobia” to why statistics paint such a bleak picture for this community. Nearly 80 percent of the victims were under the age of 35, and over two-thirds of victims were killed with a firearm. In addition, intimate partner violence accounted for nearly 20 percent of the victims and an additional 9.7 percent were killed by family members.Why are we not looking at gun safety and gun reform? Gun reform is definitely a trans and POC issue“Let’s look at some of the most obvious characteristics of the violence that’s happening—two-thirds of these deaths involve a firearm.
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