The Human Rights Campaign thinks so, but its own data undermine that narrative.
Today, on International Transgender Day of Visibility, advocates will likely claim that transgender people are facing an “epidemic” of deadly violence driven by white supremacy, transphobia, and politicization by the far Right. For more than a decade, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has pushed this narrative, publishing annual “Epidemic of Violence” reports documenting transgender homicide victims in the United States. Relying on the HRC’s analysis, activists, presidents, members of Congress, the American Medical Association, celebrities, journalists, and scholars have repeated the HRC’s claims so often that for many they feel like established facts.
This is the person who created “transgender day of visibility” pic.twitter.com/OB1dmOEStC
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 31, 2026
