5 Years of Transgender Homicides

• 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 insiders 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.

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Starting in November, Insider published its series “Deaths in the family,” a comprehensive investigation into five years of transgender homicides. It features infographics illustrating our strongest findings, including that homicides spiked just as states accelerated their introduction of anti-trans legislation, and eight long reads on law enforcement killings, hate crimes, intimate partner violence, the vulnerabilities of sex workers, unsolved cases, how transphobia colors the criminal justice system, the troubled history of police and the transgender community, and the fatal attack on an LGBTQ nightclub, Club Q, in November.

Read more about each of those stories below.