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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLiving on Borrowed Time: 6 Young Trans Women of Color Have Been Murdered in America This Year
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/living-borrowed-time-6-young-trans-women-color-have-been-murdered-america-yearWhen Kristina Gomez Reinwald was found dead in her Miami home on February 15, she became the sixth trans woman of color to be murdered in 2015. The average age of the women who have been killed so far is 31 years old, according to an estimate based on news reports of the womens ages.
LaSaia Wade, an African-American trans woman and activist, is just 27 years old. I cry every time I hear about it, Wade, who runs the nonprofit Trans Justice Project in Nashville, Tenn., told AlterNet. It angers me every time I hear about it. I dont know who I am going to talk to about it other than my sisters and brothers about the situations that are happening because society sees us as something that should not have been born.
Two of her trans female friends, Alejandra Leos, a Latina, and Gizzy Fowler, an African American, were killed last year in her home state of Tennessee. Citing a widely quoted statistic, Wade said, The average age of a trans woman is 35. If I live to be that old, Im lucky.
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Living on Borrowed Time: 6 Young Trans Women of Color Have Been Murdered in America This Year (Original Post)
xchrom
Feb 2015
OP
I've been posting about this series of murders, DU yawns about anti LGBT crimes, just does not give
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2015
#2
Agreed. Hundreds of posts about the 3 murdered Muslims in NC while these murders go unremarked
riderinthestorm
Feb 2015
#6
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)1. If it was one person, you might say it was personal -
but 6? I would call these lynchings.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)2. I've been posting about this series of murders, DU yawns about anti LGBT crimes, just does not give
a shit.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)4. Yep, consistently DU seems to care little. So sad. n/t
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)6. Agreed. Hundreds of posts about the 3 murdered Muslims in NC while these murders go unremarked
It sickens me - these murders and DU's selective outrage.
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LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)3. K&R
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)5. K&R! n/t
salin
(48,955 posts)7. "The average age of a trans woman is 35"
That stat takes my breath away.
The hatred and fear in our society - that leads some to act in extreme violence - is shameful.
It shouldn't be this way.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)8. This just sickens me.