Deaths in the Family
, Insider has compiled the most comprehensive account to date of the rising homicidal violence targeting transgender people, systematically filing hundreds of public-records requests and sending reporters around the US to gather information on five years of homicides targeting transgender and gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and two-spirit people across the United States and Puerto Rico from 2017 through 2021.
As Detroit’s police commander, Michael McGinnis, told Insider, “There’s probably a lot of cases that aren’t known and maybe not public.” The total, he said, is “probably quite a bit higher.”We found that these deaths, to a striking degree, have affected communities of color. Nearly two-thirds of those killed were Black women, and 85% were people of color. We found evidence that dozens of the victims engaged in sex work, were currently or formerly homeless, or were struggling with addiction.
We also uncovered a stunning failure of accountability. Only one killing over five years was successfully prosecuted as a hate crime — in part because many states don’t include gender identity in their statutes. Only 28 — or 16% — resulted in murder convictions. Both murder and hate-crime convictions were more common in cases with white victims. More than a third of the killings remain unsolved, a terrifying prospect for transgender communities.
Many of the victims had been brutalized in life for being transgender. And in death, many were disrespected again — the majority misnamed or misgendered on incident reports and coroner’s reports, in statements by police officers and prosecutors, and in interviews with witnesses, their identity distorted by the police during the crucial early days of a murder investigation and their complicated lives used on occasion as an excuse not to seek justice.
Based on Williams Institute estimates of transgender population by state, Louisiana and Missouri — each of which passed anti-transgender legislation in recent years — saw homicide rates for transgender people that are double the national homicide rate. The national homicide rate for women is far lower, and women comprise 87% of the victims Insider identified.
Most of the known killers and suspects were familiar to their victims. Josie Berrios was killed in Ithaca by her boyfriend, and Selena Reyes-Hernandez in Chicago by a date. Other suspects were spouses or partners, parents or housemates, hookups or clients. Several serial killers appear in our database, including a Border Patrol agent in Texas who allegedly picked up sex workers only to murder them. The agent, whose trial begins November 28, referred to sex workers as “scum of the earth.
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