The Human Rights Campaign recently reported the deaths of at least thirty transgender and gender-expansive people whose lives were tragically and inhumanely taken through violent means, including gun and intimate partner violence, in 2024.
Since 2013, the Human Rights Campaign has tracked incidents of fatal trans violence— the same year the Federal Bureau of Investigation began reporting on hate crimes motivated by anti-trans bias— and provided action items that can help end the violence.
“These victims, like all of us, were loving partners, parents, family members, friends and community members,” the HRC Foundation reported on their web site. “They worked, went to school and attended houses of worship. They were real people who did not deserve to have their lives taken.”
While the number of reported deaths has come down somewhat since 2021’s record of 57, it should be noted that this number is almost always an undercount. In any given year, the majority of those who’ve died by violence are trans women of color, Black women in particular.
The statistics are staggering:
- 77% of victims were people of color
- 53% were Black transgender women
- 60% were killed with a gun
- 39% of victims with a known killer were killed by a romantic/sexual partner, friend, or family member
- 40% were misgendered or deadnamed by authorities or the press
