1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Chyna Gibson Stop the Transgender Murder Epidemic Act of 2023 or the Chyna Gibson STME Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) One of the most underreported trends in the LGBTIQA+ community is the alarming rate at which members of the gender-nonconforming, gender-expansive community, and especially transgender women of color, are murdered. (2) Fatal violence disproportionately affects transgender women of color, and the intersections of racism, sexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and unchecked access to guns conspire to deprive them of employment, housing, health care, and other necessities, making them more vulnerable to a culture of violence. (3) The Human Rights Campaign reports since 2013, over 200 transgender and gender-expansive individuals have been killed in the United States. (4) In 2016, it is estimated that, while the overall murder rate for the United States was 1 in 19,000 per year, the murder rate for Black transgender women was 1 in 2,600, more than 7 times as high as that of the general population. (5) In 2018, according to the Human Rights Campaign, 26 transgender people suffered violent deaths in the United States, a majority of them were Black transgender women. (6) In 2019, at least 25 transgender or gender nonconforming people fatally shot or killed by other violent means. (7) In 2020, at least 37 trans and gender nonconforming people were victims of fatal violence. (8) This epidemic of targeted and pervasive murder disproportionately impacts transgender women of color, who comprise approximately 4 in 5 of all antitransgender homicides and those numbers do not account for unreported and misreported murders or transgender people who have unexpectedly died under suspicious circumstances, but whose deaths have not been determined to be homicide, reports the Human Rights Campaign. (9) Transgender people are a demographic with an elevated risk of becoming victims of violence and discrimination, in fact, it is estimated that