Transgender Awareness Week
A study was conducted by the Williams Institute in June 2016 and concluded that 0.6% of the U.S. population (1.4 million) identify themselves as transgender. Trans people face many issues within their community that causes them to feel like they are in danger and are unsafe. A survey found that 50% of trans people claim to have been raped or assaulted by a romantic partner. Trans people have been murdered simply for being trans, in addition to their loved ones and/or friends because of being involved with them. Some trans women were arrested for fighting back against their attacker. Trans women and supporters formerly united with one another and took stands against discrimination towards trans people by holding riots. Transgender Awareness Week established in response to these killings and imprisonments in order to highlight the challenges faced by trans people.
List of unlawfully killed transgender people
This is a list of transgender people who were unlawfully killed across the world. The list does not include deaths by suicide, accident, or other causes. Violence against transgender people is also known as trans bashing. Some of these cases cite the trans panic defence.
During 2015 in the United States more than twenty transgender women were murdered, the largest number on record: