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DemocratSinceBirth

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Thu Mar 2, 2017, 03:30 PM Mar 2017

Another day in Drumpf's hateful America- 2 transgender women were killed in New Orleans in 48 hours

(CNN)New Orleans' transgender community is on edge after two transgender women were killed within 48 hours of each other.

Chyna Gibson was gunned down Saturday night, while the second woman was found with multiple stab wounds Monday morning, CNN affiliate WDSU-TV reported
No arrests have been made in the cases, which police said appear to be unrelated, but transgender activist Daphanie Dupree told WDSU the situation was scary.
"It's scary because like a lot of the girls in New Orleans, they're walking around like zombies, you know they have this little hidden fear that's inside them to even go anywhere and I hear a lot of them talking about like 'oh, I'm going to carry a gun," Dupree told the station.
"It's very heartbreaking and it's scary because it's too close to home, I mean it could happen to any of us but I'm like -- we hang in the same circles, we hang in the same area just like it happened to them it could happen to me."
'One is too many'

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/us/new-orleans-transgender-homicides/?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial
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Another day in Drumpf's hateful America- 2 transgender women were killed in New Orleans in 48 hours (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 OP
So sad.... two more names... moriah Mar 2017 #1

moriah

(8,311 posts)
1. So sad.... two more names...
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 03:33 PM
Mar 2017

.... to add to the long list for TDoR (Transgender Day of Remembrance, for those unfamiliar with the acronym).

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