Transgender Homicide Victims Often Failed by Legal System: Report
There are convictions in only a small percentage of cases, and there has been only one hate-crime conviction in a trans person's death over the past five years, Insider found.
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There are convictions in only a small percentage of cases, and there has been only one hate-crime conviction in a trans person's death over the past five years, Insider found.
We reported eight stories on cases from Alabama to Washington on law enforcement killings, hate crimes, intimate partner violence, and more.
Insider found only 28 murder convictions over five years of transgender homicides. Judges and juries sometimes easily accepted claims of self-defense.
More than half of killings of transgender women in recent years were by intimates, including spouses, boyfriends, and dates.
Insider investigated hundreds of cases to produce the most comprehensive account of fatal violence against transgender people in the United States to date.