They died because they were trans.

Agreed.

Though the coroner is concerned with excruciating exactitudes.

Another way to look at it, is, hypothetically some one poisoned someone else. rat poison is horrible. Among other things, it causes kidney failure, brain damage, internal bleeding, damage to other organs; commas. Awful stuff. The coroner is going to note all of that and draw conclusions that kidney failure is the cause of death (or whatever it was. Idunno.)

The coroner’s report will say the final cause of death was kidney failure; but will also note the kidney failure itself was caused by rat poison. Actually in this scenario, it’s probably something that will get amended because of how god-awful long it’ll take to get toxicology reports back. But details.

The problem here is that the cops are running with it saying “OH IT WASN’T THE FIGHT!” when, that’s probably not what the actual coroners report really says.