On June 21, the same weekend Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced he was declaring a “Transfemicide State of Emergency,” 36 people were shot in the city, six fatally. At the current homicide rate, Chicago is on pace to record 445 homicides this year. By contrast, only 14 transgender people were killed in Chicago between 2016 and 2024, averaging 1.6 per year, only marginally higher than the number of non-transgender homicide victims killed each day.
The transfemicide emergency was declared in response to a phenomenon that averages 0.003 deaths per day.
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