Due to the feeling of living an illegitimate life, the difficulty of defying norms and the erosion of resilience capital in the face of rejection and discrimination, trans people of all ages and social classes give up their lives by committing suicide. Others are murdered and can be added to the list as victims of transphobia. These individuals have been subjected to post-mortem gender reassignments, traces of which have been discovered since the fourth century. The subject must be approached with caution, as life experiences related to gender and more specifically to gender-crossing may correspond to the figures we understand in the 20th century under the term transgender. In this article, we propose to question gender-crossings through the ages by measuring the effects of post-mortem gender reassignments, or even erasure, with a number of examples. Reassignments and their consequences in selected contemporary media content will also be described and analysed, particularly when the deaths of trans people are treated as miscellaneous news and when gender becomes a staging tool. The proposed analysis through the lens of intersectionality aims to demonstrate that media treatment and post-mortem reassignments reveal the persistence of inequalities, sometimes in new forms.