Anti-gay hate crimes fell slightly in 2020, while anti-trans crimes rose, FBI says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : HRC has been tracking the underreported data since 2013, and Congress still hasn't acted to enable local law enforcement to do the same."
46% : Advocates have recently called for more comprehensive federal data collection related to sexual orientation and gender identity so they can help suggest better policy solutions that account for the rising fatal violence against Black trans women and hate violence against all LGBTQ people.
43% : In June, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., reintroduced a bill to improve collection of data about sexual orientation and gender identity in violent crimes and suicides.
41% : Hate crime incidents motivated by gender identity increased from 198 in 2019 to 236 in 2020.
41% : Of the 27,715 trans adults surveyed by the National Center for Transgender Equality in the summer of 2015, nearly half (46 percent) reported that they were verbally harassed in the previous year, and nearly 1 in 10 (9 percent) said they were physically attacked in the previous year for being transgender.
40% : Advocates say the estimates are low, as law enforcement agencies often use trans people's birth names, also known as their deadnames, and their sexes assigned at birth in reports of their deaths.
39% : Law enforcement agencies also collect, categorize and submit hate crime data voluntarily.
31% : Law enforcement agencies reported 1,051 hate crime incidents motivated by sexual orientation last year, down from 1,195 in 2019.
22% : Twenty-one states and Washington, D.C., require law enforcement agencies to collect and report data on hate crimes based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity, the report found.

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