Sorry, Human Rights Campaign: The Trans Community Is Not Facing an ‘Epidemic of Violence’ in the US

In November 2024, the Human Rights Campaign released a report on the “Epidemic of Violence Against the Transgender & Gender-Expansive Community in the U.S.”

HRC claims that laws protecting fairness in women's sports or keeping boys out of girls’ restrooms are fueling violence against people who identify as transgender.

Yet, according to the Human Rights Campaign's data on homicides and the Williams Institute's estimate of the transgender population, Americans who identify as transgender face a lower homicide risk than other groups, particularly men, women, black, white, and Hispanic people.

The Daily Signal's Tyler O'Neil crunched the numbers, and here's what he found.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/24/human-rights-campaigns-own-data-undermine-claims-epidemic-violence-against-transgender-people/