NEW YORK — The homicide rate for transgender people nearly doubled between 2017 and 2021, driven primarily by killings with firearms, according to a leading anti-gun violence group.
Known transgender killings increased 93% in that four-year period -- from 29 in 2017 to 56 in 2021 -- and 73% of those people were killed with a firearm, according to an Everytown for Gun Safety report released Tuesday analyzing the effects of gun violence on LGBTQ communities.
Citing a June brief from the Department of Justice that drew on data from 2017 to 2020, Everytown reported that LGBTQ people was more likely than other groups to be victims of violence. LGBTQ violence does not spare children and young adults, who were also more likely than their non-LGBTQ counterparts to experience violence involving a weapon, the report found: A Human Rights Campaign analysis of public data from the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System showed 17% of LGBTQ youth -- including 29% of trans youth -- and 30% of questioning youth experienced threats or injury with a weapon while on school property.
"This data implies that this epidemic of firearm suicide could have a disproportionate impact on transgender and adolescent members of the LGBTQ+ community," the report states. "This report shows what we have sadly learned to be true: when LGBTQ+ people's rights and existence are up for debate, it creates a culture in which hate-motivated crimes are commonplace," Fran Hutchins, executive director at the Equality Federation, said in a statement."Easy access to firearms coupled with state lawmakers who are fueling anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and attacks on transgender rights has created an environment that can be deadly for our community.
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