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463 Anti-Trans Hate Crimes Recorded. The DOJ Removed Gender Identity From Its Surveys.

Resist Now Updated June 9, 2026 4 min read
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Update, June 9: The House Judiciary Committee held a second hearing on the SPLC today, titled “Manufacturing Hate: Part II.” SPLC interim CEO Bryan Fair testified that the hearing was scheduled three days after the DOJ filed criminal charges, and the committee refused SPLC’s request to delay until the case is resolved. Fair told the committee the SPLC has spent 55 years fighting racial terror and white supremacy, sued the United Klans of America out of existence, and won a $14 million judgment against a neo-Nazi who incited antisemitic harassment of a Jewish Montana mother. The SPLC released its annual Year in Hate and Extremism report the same morning, documenting how “the hard right has weaponized the levers of government to weaken the political and economic power of nonwhites, immigrants, women, the LGBTQ plus community, and the poor.” The hearing follows the DOJ’s April 2026 indictment of the SPLC on 11 counts and the FBI’s October 2025 decision to cut all ties with the organization.

463 Recorded. The Real Number Is Higher.

The FBI recorded 463 hate crime incidents based on gender identity in 2024. Of single-bias gender identity crimes, 72.5% targeted transgender people. Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes rose nearly 9% year-over-year.

GLAAD tracked 1,042 anti-LGBTQ incidents in 2025, with 51% targeting trans people, resulting in 84 injuries and 10 deaths from violent attacks.

463 anti-trans hate crimes recorded. Transgender people victimized at 4x the rate. DOJ removed gender identity from crime surveys. FBI cut ties with SPLC and ADL. 27 people killed in anti-trans violence in one year.

FBI reporting is voluntary. Many jurisdictions lack resources to investigate or categorize hate crimes. The actual numbers are substantially higher than what appears in federal data.

The Data Infrastructure Is Being Dismantled

The Bureau of Justice Statistics found transgender people experience 86.2 victimizations per 1,000 compared to 21.7 for cisgender people. LGBT people face 6.6 violent hate crimes per 1,000 versus 0.6 for non-LGBT people, an 11-fold disparity.

The DOJ removed gender identity questions from the National Crime Victimization Survey, the Survey on Sexual Victimization, and the Survey of Inmates in Local Jails. Without these questions, there is no federal data collection mechanism for tracking anti-trans violence trends.

FBI Director Kash Patel terminated all ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center in October 2025 and cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League the same week. In April 2026, the DOJ indicted the SPLC on 11 counts including wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The SPLC had documented 1,371 hate and antigovernment extremist groups operating in the U.S.

Enforcement Is Moving Backward

The DOJ dismantled Prison Rape Elimination Act protections for transgender incarcerated people. Gender-identity-based housing assignments ended. Screening for sexual abuse risk stopped.

Auditing for gender-identity-motivated assaults was eliminated. All changes align with the executive order recognizing only two sexes.

HRC recorded 27 cases of fatal violence against transgender and gender-nonconforming people between November 2024 and November 2025.

What you can do now

  1. Call both senators and demand they restore gender identity questions to the National Crime Victimization Survey and the Survey on Sexual Victimization. Without these questions, there is no federal mechanism to track anti-trans violence trends. Transgender people experience 86.2 victimizations per 1,000 compared to 21.7 for cisgender people. Removing the data does not remove the problem. Use Resist Bot to send your message.
  2. Contact your state attorney general through the AG finder and ask whether your state collects gender-identity-based hate crime data independently of the FBI. If it does not, push for state-level reporting requirements. FBI reporting is voluntary and many jurisdictions do not categorize hate crimes at all.
  3. Ask your House representative to oppose DOJ budget proposals that cut hate crimes enforcement and to support restoring FBI partnerships with organizations that track extremist groups. The FBI cut ties with the SPLC and the ADL, eliminating access to data on 1,371 hate and antigovernment extremist groups.
  4. Push your state legislators to fund state-level hate crimes enforcement and to restore PREA protections for transgender incarcerated people. HRC documented 27 cases of fatal anti-trans violence in a single year. Find your delegation at your state page.

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