Twenty-eight names — including the Washington Post's Mississippi cases, new leads found this week, and people whose identities are still being established. We list everyone. What the state recorded sits beside what the family says, given equal weight.

Here the relabel is rarely "suicide" — most of these women were shot. The erasure is of the person. Since 2013 the Human Rights Campaign has counted more than 370 trans and gender-expansive people killed in the U.S., and 64% were first misgendered or deadnamed by the media, the police, or the courts — the record getting the person wrong two times in three. Black trans women are 226 of the dead — six in ten — while being about a sixth of trans adults. In 2024 alone: at least 32 killed, 56% of them Black trans women, four in ten still misgendered by the record. Same machinery, different lever — the official file keeps the wrong name, undercounts the hate, and closes. They are set down here in the names they chose, because the unnaming is the injury.

Not a list. Vanity Williams, 34, was an Air Force veteran who had just started nursing school. Kassim Omar, 29, fled Somalia as a refugee to escape anti-LGBTQ+ persecution. Redd "Barbie", 25, loved Nicki Minaj and dreamed of opening her own salon. Michelle Henry, 25, was a lifelong member of San Francisco's LGBTQ+ community. Each of them the record then unnamed.

Source: HRC, "The Epidemic of Violence Against the Transgender & Gender-Expansive Community in the U.S. — 2024 Report," with its companion "Fatal Violence" list. Names, ages, and locations follow HRC and its reporting guidance — chosen names, correct gender. "Unnamed in the record" marks a case HRC documents as deadnamed or misgendered by authorities or the press; the 64% is HRC's since-2013 finding. Race figures are HRC's. Photographs, where families wish to share them, are Jackie's to source.