Attack Average: One Every Three Months (http://www.queerty.com/queer/transgender/trans-death-rate-a-nightmare-20070328.php)
While victims; trans status may be a malicious motivator, it appears race also plays a factor. According to Wilchins, "These young victims were almost all Black or Latina, transgender or gay, biologically male, and murdered in attacks of extraordinary violence". Scary ->-bleeped-<-, that. Even more frightening, GPAC claims that if FBI hate crime statistics specifically featured trans violence, they would "outweigh every other category except race". It's hard out there for a pimpette.
Read the entire press release, after the jump.
Gender-Based Violence Claims Life of Another Young Person of Color
- Ruby Ordenana Murdered in San Francisco's Mission District
- Research Shows Trend of a Killing about Once Every 3 Months