'Tragic and deeply upsetting': 2021 deadliest year on record for transgender people in US

With this month’s killings of transgender women in South Carolina, Florida and Pennsylvania, 2021 is now the deadliest year for transgender and gender nonconforming people in the United States, a grim milestone as the community prepares to mark its annual Transgender Day of Remembrance and Resilience on Saturday.

“We are at a tragic and deeply upsetting moment,” said Joni Madison, interim president of Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, which has tracked such fatalities since 2013.