Violence

Findings reveal that Black transgender women accounted for 78% of all transgender women murdered in the U.S., with gun violence as the leading cause and Southern and Midwestern regions showing the highest rates of violence, linked to structural racism and anti-transgender policies.

Halliwell et al., 2024, led by Pamuela Halliwell, MA, LMFT at The San Diego LGBT Community Center and Laramie Smith, PhD at UCSD, documents the devastating violence that disproportionately impacts Black transgender women. Findings reveal that Black transgender women accounted for 78% of all transgender women murdered in the U.S., with gun violence as the leading cause and Southern and Midwestern regions showing the highest rates of violence, linked to structural racism and anti-transgender policies.

There were 4,444 HIV diagnosis in California in 2021. Of those, 12% were among women. Black/African American and Latinx are disproportionately impacted.