The current murder rate in the United States is five murders per 100,000, which is about 0.005%. The Williams Institute’s 2016 study, “How Many Adults Identify as Transgender in the United States?,” reports that 1.4 million US Americans identify as transgender. In 2019, the United States reported the murders of 30 trans people. With 1.4 million trans people, that’s a murder rate of 0.002% — less than half of the murder rate for the general population. It’s possible that more trans people are dying than reported, but the number would have to be over 250% higher to be considered even marginally higher than the overall rate.
Very few of the reports on their deaths mentioned transphobic motivations — or any motivation at all. Some cases were vague, with transphobia as a plausible motive, while others seemed to have nothing to do with it whatsoever — yet they are counted by TDOR as victims of anti-trans violence.
The victims whose occupations are known are mostly sex workers (61%). In the United States, the majority of the trans people reported murdered are trans women of colour and/or Native American trans women (90%).”
This backed up what I saw as I looked through the lists of victims. The homicide rate for black women in the US is much higher than it is for white women, and the poverty rate is twice as high. Sex workers are 60 to 100 times more likely to be murdered than other women.

In 2017, during the first Trump administration, the attempt to bar transgender people
In 2025
“Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness”
Implementation timelines were spelled out in weeks and service members were given a choice of taking the carrot of a “voluntary” separation or the stick of an “involuntary” one with unknown consequences
In May, the Supreme Court, seemingly ignorant of the real harms being done by the purge, answered the government’s emergency appeal and the injunctions were lifted, allowing enforcement

Last week, the Federal Court found a transgender woman, Roxanne Tickle, had been directly discriminated against when she was removed from a women-only social media app, Giggle for Girls.