The number of murders of transgender people nearly doubled between 2017 and 2021, and Black women were disproportionately victims, according to a new Everytown report
Police officers direct family members away from a fatal shooting at Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla., June 12, 2016.nearly doubled between 2017 and 2021, driven primarily by killings with firearms, according to a leading anti-gun violence group.
Overall, homicides in the U.S. increased by 20.6% from 2017 to 2020, growing from 19,510 to 24,576, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.from the Department of Justice that drew on data from 2017 to 2020, Everytown reported that LGBTQ people were more likely than other groups to be victims of violence.
LGBTQ violence does not spare children and young adults, 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.
The report attributes the "greater risk" of suicide to social stigmas, family rejection, bullying, harassment and abuse -- and ties the data on suicide and homicide to a political climate in which states are focusing on legislation aimed at LGBTQ groups. Everytown's new report renews the group's calls for additional laws regulation gun use, which Republican critics have long said are ineffective or unconstitutional.
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