There are problems when it comes to tracking crimes against trans people, murders of trans people, and suicides of trans people on record, for a number of reasons detailed below. It's indisputable, however, that trans people receive an exorbitant rate of harassment and criminal treatment.

(Also, Reeq's main scary point-- the point about their life expectancy? Yeah, that's true and still stands. And again, due to frequent misgendering by family members of those who die, that life expectancy may be on the *high* end.)

http://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/HRC-AntiTransgenderViolence-0519.pdf

In 2014, at least 13 transgender people were murdered in the United States, and at least 19 were murdered in 2013. Their deaths were gruesome — involving gunshots, burning, strangulation and beating — and many have gone unsolved. These totals represent only the known victims; there may very well be countless other victims of fatal anti-transgender violence whose deaths we will never know about because police, the press or family members have consistently misidentified them based on their assigned sex and name at birth. Even in many of the known cases, local media reports misgendered the victims and used their birth names. The local media also further stigmatized some
of these women by highlighting arrest records and using mugshots instead of personal photos.

While awareness about violence against the transgender community is improving, there are still major barriers to data collection and reporting. Following the passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009, the FBI began tracking bias-motivated crimes based on the victim’s actual or perceived gender identity. While this data is incredibly valuable, it does not paint a complete picture of hate crimes against LGBT Americans because the vast majority of jurisdictions either fail to report their data or inaccurately report that they have had no hate crimes in their jurisdiction.

An analysis of the FBI’s Hate Crime Statistics, 2013 report, the most recent data available, showed that at least three killings — Islan Nettles
in New York, Cece Dove in Ohio and Diamond Williams in Philadelphia — went unreported despite evidence that the perpetrators were clearly motivated by the victim’s gender identity. Nettles’ assailants were shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs while they attacked her; and both Dove’s and Williams’ assailants admitted to killing them specifically because they were transgender. But not one of these incidents was reported to the FBI as a bias-motivated crime. In fact, in the FBI’s 2013 report, only 33 crimes motivated by gender identity were reported nationwide, and none of those were murder or non-negligent manslaughter.

Hate crime laws, accurate reporting of bias-motivated incidents, and proper characterization of a crime as one based on gender identity are essential tools that can be used to address anti-transgender violence. However, the lack of accurate and reliable data collection makes it impossible for advocates to know how widespread this violence really is.

Among the 53 known transgender victims from 2013-2015:
• At least 46, or 87 percent, were
transgender people of color. Among those, at least 39 were African American and 6 were Latino/a.
• At least 46 were transgender women, one was a transgender man, and the identities of other victims were gender non- conforming or unclear.
• 39, or 74 percent, were under the age of 35 at the time of their deaths, and the average age of all the victims was less than 31 years old.
• At least 8, or 15 percent, were killed by intimate partners.
• At least 18, or 34 percent, were or likely may have been engaged in survival sex work at the time of their deaths.
• 18, or 34 percent, were killed in the Southeast, more than twice that of any other region in the country.
• Only 16, or 30 percent, were killed in states that have hate crime laws that account for crimes motivated by the victim’s gender identity;
but despite these provisions and a federal hate crime law, not a single one of these murders was prosecuted or reported to the FBI as a hate crime.

The patterns found in these crimes are indicative of the widespread violence and harassment the transgender community faces every
day in the United States — particularly transgender women of color who disproportionately live in poverty.
In addition to the data and reporting challenges highlighted in this report, the existing data on the size of the transgender population in the United States is limited, complicating further analysis of this data. A conservative estimate, based on the information
we do have, however, shows that transgender women face 4.3 times the risk of becoming homicide victims than the general population of all women.

According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) 2013 report on hate violence against lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and HIV-affected communities, 72 percent of the victims of LGBTQ or HIV-motivated hate violence homicides in 2013 were transgender women,and 67 percent were transgender women of color. When compared to their non-transgender LGBQ and HIV- affected peers, the report found that transgender people of color were 6 times more likely to experience physical violence from the police, 1.5 times more likely to experience discrimination, 1.5 times more likely to face sexual violence and 1.8 times more likely to experience bias-based violence in shelters.