Equal Rights and Opportunity Sexuality in the Family and Personal Life: Lesbian Feminism, Single Motherhood by Choice, Transgendered People, and Reproductive Rights
created by:
Annie ChoiChristine Wang
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Transgender Death Statistics 1970 to October 2004
Statistics are taken from the Remember our Dead website, which commemorates the victims whose death were due to discrimination based on their sexual orientation.
Totals:
| 321 Total Deaths | 234 Domestic, 87 International |
| Deadliest year: | 2002, with 34 reported deaths, followed by 2003 with 32 |
| Deadliest month: | December 2002 and August 2003 with 6 deaths |
| Averages per month: | 1990 through 1994, 1.03 per month |
| 1995 to 1999, 1.22 per month | |
| 1990 to September 24, 2004 - 1.37 per month | |
| 2004 to September 24,2004- 1.41 per month |
Causes of death:
Shot: 128
Stabbed: 70
Beaten: 49
“Murdered’’ (no cause specified): 45
Strangled: 22
There are about 20 additional causes. 22 individuals died from multiple causes.
Location by State, and number of cities reporting in that State:
California - 45, from 20 cities
New York - 41, 9 cities
Georgia - 15, 5 city
Texas - 15, 6 cites
Pennsylvania - 13, 4 cities
Florida - 14, 10 cities
Tennessee - 9, 3 cities
Massachusetts - 7, 4 cities.
Illinois - 7, 2 cities
District of Columbia - 11, 1
There are 22 other states on the list.
Numbers by cities in the US:
New York City, (including Bronx and S. Bronx) - 30
Atlanta and Washington, D.C. - 11
San Francisco and Philadelphia - 8 each
San Diego and Houston - 7 each
Chicago - 6
Nashville - 5
Oakland, Santa Ana, Boston, Miami - 4 each.
There are 100 other US cities on this list.
DEATHS PER CAPITA (1/Millions)
Domestic by State (based on 2000 Census)
District of Columbia - 1/.143
Hawaii - 1/.404
Georgia - 1/.585
New York - 1/.612
Tennessee - 1/.813
California - 1/.891
Massachusetts - 1/.907
Pennsylvania - 1/1.023
Alabama - 1/1.112
New Jersey - 1/1.402
Minnesota - 1/1.640
Maryland - 1/1.765
Illinois - 1/1.774
Texas - 1/1.896
Florida - 1/1.998
Ohio - 1/2.271
There are 25 countries on the list.
Canada topped the list with 12 deaths. Seven of the deaths in Canada occurred in Toronto.
Hate Crime Statistics 2005
Bias motivation |
Incidents |
Offenses |
Victims1 |
Known offenders2 |
Sexual Orientation: |
1,017 |
1,171 |
1,213 |
1,138 |
Anti-Male Homosexual |
621 |
713 |
743 |
715 |
Anti-Female Homosexual |
155 |
180 |
186 |
146 |
Anti-Homosexual |
195 |
228 |
233 |
237 |
Anti-Heterosexual |
21 |
23 |
23 |
18 |
Anti-Bisexual |
25 |
27 |
28 |
22 |
- 1 The term victim may refer to a person, business, institution, or society as a whole.
- 2 The term known offender does not imply that the identity of the suspect is known, but only that an attribute of the suspect
has been identified, which distinguishes him/her from an unknown offender. - 3 In a multiple-bias incident two conditions must be met: 1) more than one offense type must occur in the incident and 2) at
least two offense types must be motivated by different biases.