Dear community,

Today, on Trans Day of Remembrance, we gather to honor the trans and gender-diverse people whose lives were taken from us this year. Each loss ripples through our communities as threads in a web of relationships, care, and connection that shape our everyday lives. Their absence is felt in the spaces they loved, the people they held close, and the futures they should have had.

Anti-trans violence is never isolated. It is tied to systems that deny care, restrict movement, police our bodies, and punish our existence. This year’s reporting documents fifty-eight known losses, including those taken by violence, those who died by suicide, and others who passed from natural causes. But numbers alone cannot hold the fullness of who they were or the communities forever changed by their loss.