더 많은 트랜스젠더와 성 비 순응 자들이 미국에서 살해되었습니다. 2020 인권 캠페인 이후 어느 해보다 (HRC) 처음에이 숫자를 추적하기 시작 2013.
금요일 현재, 최소한 37 trans and gender nonconforming people have been killed this year in what the HRC called “an epidemic of violence.”
This year’s death toll tops 2017, which had 31 recorded victims.
“This grim milestone proves what we have long known: this violence is an epidemic,” HRC wrote in its annual report. “Each one of the lives we lost was someone ripped from their family, their friends and their community by an act of senseless violence, often driven by bigotry and transphobia and inflamed by the rhetoric of those who oppose our progress.”
Over the past seven years, 가 있었다 202 reported cases of fatal violence against transgender and gender nonconforming victims — and Black transgender woman make up 66% of these deaths, according to HRC’s report.
This year’s report acknowledged the racial disparities in these killings. 의 37 피해자, the majority were Black, Latinx or both, according to HRC. The list includes Tony McDade, a Black transgender man who was shot by a Tallahassee police officer 5 월, two days after the death of George Floyd.
The deaths of Black transgender people were acknowledged during the summer protests over racial injustice and police brutality.
Other victims include Queasha D Hardy, a hairstylist from Baton Rouge, 루이지애나, who was shot and killed in July, 과 Michelle Michellyn Ramos Vargas, who was shot multiple times and found dead in San Germán, Puerto Rico, 9 월.
HRC’s report comes just three days after the FBI released its hate crime report for 2019. 있었다 7,103 hate crimes reported to the FBI 에 2019 and of these, a combined 19.6% were based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
