Wednesday, October 07, 2020

A Sad Day

We broke a record the other day, the record that we broke is the number of murdered trans people in the U.S. this year so far.
More than 30 transgender people have been killed in 2020, making this already the deadliest year since records began
Insider
By Canela López 
October 6, 2020


  • As of October 6, there have been 31 recorded killings of transgender and gender non-conforming people in the US in 2020, according to The Human Rights Campaign.
  • 26 of those killed this year were Black or Latinx. 
  • 2020 marks the deadliest year for transgender people on record, surpassing the 27 people killed in all of 2019. 
  • Experts say the devastating statistic is part of an ongoing epidemic of violence against transgender women of color. 
Felycya Harris, a 33-year-old transgender interior designer and entrepreneur, was shot to death in Augusta, Georgia on October 3.
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The new total, updated today, surpasses the 27 reported killings of trans people in all of 2019, 26 reported killings in 2018, 29 in 2017, 23 in 2016, 21 in 2015, 20 in 2014, and 19 in 2013. 

Experts say the numbers reflect what has been an ongoing epidemic of transphobic and racist violence against transgender women of color in the US.
However, that number doesn’t include those who were attacked but survived.
Transgender woman ‘brutally stabbed’ in targeted attack at MacArthur Park, police say
LA Times
By Kevin Rector, Faith E. Pinho
October 6, 2020


A transgender woman was targeted and “brutally stabbed” in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles’ Westlake neighborhood on Sunday night after being surrounded by a group of men who suggested hatred for “gays,” according to the LAPD.

The 42-year-old woman, whom police did not name, was seated on a park bench about 9:30 p.m. when she was surrounded by four to five men, one of whom said “something to the effect of, ‘We don’t want gays in the park,’” officials said.

Hate crimes through out the U.S. has been increasing,
Violent Hate Crimes Reach 16-Year High in United States
ASIS International
By Claire Meyer  
01 February 2020


The number of violent hate crimes reported in the United States in 2018 was the highest in 16 years, according to the FBI.

The U.S. Department of Justice defines a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property, motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.”

Although the total number of reported hate crimes in the United States de­creased from 2017 to 2018, the number of offenses rose 12 percent. Physical assaults against people also increased, accounting for 61 percent of the incidents, according to FBI data released in November 2019. Of the 7,120 hate crimes reported to the FBI in 2018, 4,571 were crimes against persons, including intimidation, assault, rape, and murder.
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Around 60 percent of the crimes were motivated by race, ethnicity, or ancestry bias. Attacks against Latino or transgender people rose significantly in 2018; 485 crimes were determined to be anti-Latino, compared to 430 in 2017. Since 2016, crimes targeting Latinos rose by 41 percent. Hate crimes against transgender people increased 34 percent from 2017 to 2018.
Do you feel safer now or then you felt 4 years ago?

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