<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty</p>
<p>A new report from the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/susan-collins-backed-the-human-rights-campaign-for-years-they-left-her-for-political-dead-she-wont-forget">Human Rights Campaign</a> says that over 300 <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/transgender-teens-dont-abandon-hormone-therapy-as-adults-study-finds">transgender</a> and gender non-conforming individuals have been killed in the United States over the last decade in what the organization calls “an epidemic of violence.”</p>
<p>These numbers come on the eve of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-transgender-day-of-remembrance-so-much-loss-so-much-to-keep-fighting-for">Transgender Day of Remembrance</a>, an annual <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/gwendolyn-ann-smith-interview-transgender-day-of-remembrance">community-led event where names of transgender people lost to violence</a> in the last year are read aloud to draw attention to the violence the community faces.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the HRC says that in this time the FBI has only registered 11 anti-transgender murders or negligent homicides, showing how a lack of data at the federal levels has led to severe undercounts of deadly violence against the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/im-proud-to-be-trans-and-for-now-want-to-feel-invisible">transgender</a> community.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trans-americans-face-epidemic-of-violence-human-rights-campaign-says?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty
A new report from the Human Rights Campaign says that over 300 transgender and gender non-conforming individuals have been killed in the United States over the last decade in what the organization calls “an epidemic of violence.”
Meanwhile, the HRC says that in this time the FBI has only registered 11 anti-transgender murders or negligent homicides, showing how a lack of data at the federal levels has led to severe undercounts of deadly violence against the transgender community.
