(CNN) More transgender and gender nonconforming people have been killed in the US in 2020 than any year since the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) first began tracking these numbers in 2013. As of Friday, a least 37 trans and gender nonconforming people have been killed this year in what the HRC called "an epidemic of violence." This year's death toll tops 2017, which had 31 recorded victims. "This grim milestone proves what we have long known: this violence is an epidemic," HRC wrote in its annual report. Over the past seven years, there have been 202 reported cases of fatal violence against transgender and gender nonconforming victims -- and Black transgender woman make up 66% of these deaths, according to HRC's report.

Source: CNN November 21, 2020 00:45 UTC