GLAAD's Transgender Media Program works with Hollywood to help producers and writers create accurate transgender roles, and helps casting directors find trans actors to play the part.
These are the 26 transgender people known to be killed in 2017 -- all are transgender people of color, with the exception of Gwynevere River Song and Ally Lee Steinfeld. This number does not include transgender people whose deaths were not reported due to misgendering in police reports, news stories, and sometimes by the victim's family.
Members of the Transgender Service Providers Network (TSPN) met with GLAAD to learn to become more effective media spokespeople.
