My guess is that the biggest change is that more people are collecting the statistics. I'm convinced that even now most murders of TG people don't end up in lists of murdered TG people. If they're poor (esp. if they're in sex work), they simply vanish, leaving nothing but a line in the police blotter and a tag at the morgue, because who cares about them, anyway? And if they're well-to-do, the fact that they're TG is suppressed, since the family would just as soon not have their family's "shame" exposed.

There's a similar problem investigating murders of prostitutes -- in most cases, their families refuse to admit any connection, and their friends are mostly other prostitutes who have zero influence.

God may care even about a sparrow who falls, but human beings seem to only care when it's the "right kind" of people.

\end{rant}