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November 16, 2022

By Candace McDuffie, The Root

**A demonstrator holds up a sign during a march to mark International Transgender Day of Visibility in Lisbon, Thursday, March 31, 2022.**

In 2013, the FBI began keeping track of hate crimes against transgender people. This year—ahead of the Transgender Day of Remembrance—the Human Right Campaign shared that at least 32 transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed in the US.

The Human Rights Campaign also noted that since the FBI began tracking the acts of violence, there have been a total of 302 violent deaths of gender-nonconforming and transgender people. According to its annual report, in 2022 transgender people of color make up 81% of identified victims with 59% of them being Black.

Trans women are killed at higher rates, with them making up 63% of all documented victims since 2013. Transgender Awareness Week is currently underway, with Sunday being Transgender Day of Remembrance. It serves as an international observance of those who lose their lives due to anti-transgender violence.

The LGBTQ advocacy organization also stated that the number of deaths are most likely higher than on record because the crimes will often go unreported or the victims are misgendered in police reports. In addition, the data doesn’t include those who died by suicide, which occurs at much higher rates among LGBTQ people than the general population.

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Many have protected that 2022 will be the deadliest year for Black trans women.

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