documented 350 homicides of trans and gender-diverse people around the world from October 1, 2019, through September 30 of this year.
That’s a 6 percent increase from the same period a year earlier, and the researchers have recorded 3,664 homicides since the effort began in 2008.
The yearly total has gradually increased since then.And the numbers are likely just a fraction of those killed, as many victims are misgendered by police, media, or families, or their deaths not reported at all. “It is not possible to estimate the number of unreported cases,” notes a press release from Transrespect Versus Transphobia.Trans women or those who identify as transfeminine made up 98 percent of the victims in the 2020 report.