Insider spent 18 months investigating 175 killings of transgender people. Here's what we found.
Trigger warning: Transphobic violence
Killings of transgender people doubled between 2019 and 2021, as anti-trans legislation and rhetoric accelerated.
Insider has an important report on the killings of transgender people in the US.
The increase in deaths follows the increase in anti-trans propaganda and policies. The next time a TERF or a right wing bigot tells you they are not to blame, show them this story.
Insider writes:
- Killings of transgender people doubled between 2019 and 2021, as anti-trans legislation and rhetoric accelerated.
- Most of the killers were young men in their teens and twenties, many of whom were intimate with their victims.
- At least 39 transgender people were killed in acts of intimate violence, by spouses, partners, boyfriends, housemates, dates, or clients.
- Only 28 killings out of 175 cases Insider examined resulted in murder convictions; only one resulted in a hate crimes conviction.
- Nearly two-thirds of victims were misgendered or misnamed by law enforcement.