Men with connections to the group have allegedly killed four other people across the country within an eight-month period. Transgender women of color have consistently been the most targeted group among LGBTQ people, each year making up the highest number of hate-motivated killings. “[Twenty-two] of these homicides were of transgender women of color.”And then there is the staggering statistic from the NCAVP report on murders of cisgender queer, gay or bisexual men: a 400 percent increase in hate-motivated homicides in 2017 ― from four in 2016 to 20 in 2017. Much of the violence against gay and bi men and transgender women over the years has been committed by men who are deeply insecure about their masculinity and even sometimes about their own sexual orientation. Studies have shown that men most likely to harbor hate are often tormented themselves about their own same-sex attraction.

Source: Huffington Post February 05, 2018 21:56 UTC