Nedra Sequence Morris News Today

Cable and broadcast television networks’ coverage of the escalating violence against trans people in America grew in 2022, fueled by widespread coverage of the shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but they generally failed to cover anti-trans violence otherwise. Additionally, coverage of the Club Q shooting suffered from familiar issues, including failure to properly contextualize individual violent acts as coming amid a larger epidemic of violence and failure to air perspectives ...

There have been 32 violent deaths of trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people in 2022 — and 300 in the decade these numbers have been tracked.

The number of trans people killed in the US in 2022 has hit 32 ahead of Trans Day of Remembrance, as anti-trans violence continues.

The latest annual report from the Human Rights Campaign acknowledges that the death toll is likely underreported.

A Two-Spirit Lakota person, who was shot dead in South Dakota, has been remembered for her “loving soul” and ‘using laughter as medicine'. 

Two trans people experiencing mental health crises were shot and killed by police in chilling incidents just a few weeks apart. 

Marisela Castro, a trans woman who had a “bright and sunny” demeanour, was shot and killed just weeks shy of her birthday celebrations. 

A Chicago man charged with the murder of a trans woman he was in a relationship with has claimed he acted in self-defence.

Martasia Richmond, a Black trans woman, was murdered in a knife attack in Chicago.

Two trans women, Shawmaynè Giselle Marie and Kitty Monroe, were murdered within days of each other in senseless acts of violence.