Copy-pasting what I wrote about this report earlier:
This is a new report on what Jill Collen Johnson has termed modern day lynchings in the South as well as hate crimes + suspicious deaths. The study records the deaths of over 150 individuals, who are overwhelmingly Black, across seven states. 75 of these are modern-day lynchings, which the report characterizes as murders committed as ostensible “retributive justice” involving more than one perpetrator which are ruled suicides. 83 are other hate crimes and suspicious deaths, which may not have been ruled suicides, may have had only one perpetrator, yet which usually have not been investigated formally as hate crimes despite probable antiblack or transmisogynist rationale.
Of the 150 people whose deaths are recounted, approximately 50 are transgender women. The number, and the accounts themselves, are extremely alarming. The Advocate has published an article on this which unfortunately substantially misreads what the report is saying. Of the trans women murdered, the vast majority were hate crimes committed by a single perpetrator, particularly via gunshot, and very few were ruled suicides. The Advocate’s claim that “Black trans women are being killed and their deaths ruled suicides” is therefore not particularly accurate.
It is, however, helpful to place these transmisogynist murders of Black trans women in the broader context of state-sanctioned racial violence against Black people in the south. I say “state-sanctioned” because what the report does show repeatedly is that whether speaking of lynchings deemed “suicides” or murders not considered as “hate crimes,” what we see is systemic issues in how these murders are treated by police, ranging from clear intentional obfuscation to uncaring laxity to bureaucratic hinderance to actively being involved in the murder. If you are able to, I highly recommend reading the report.
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