anti-trans violence: Last News

report highlighting the ongoing trend of violence against transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals and memorializing those who have died in the past 12 months.The report’s release coincides with today’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, which memorializes those transgender, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary individuals who have lost their lives since November 2022. Since 2013, HRC has recorded the deaths of 335 transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals due to violence, including at least 33 who were killed over the past year.

WHNS, Promise Edwards, a family friend with whom Williamson had been living before his death, said that Williamson and Newton had chatted back and forth on Facebook for over a month before arranging to meet in person.The two men arranged to meet, with Newton agreeing to pick up Williamson at a Waffle House restaurant before going to Carowinds, an amusement park straddling the North Carolina-South Carolina border.According to the Union County Sheriff’s Office, Newton drove more than 100 miles from Monroe to Laurens — a roughly two-hour trip — to pick up Williamson for their date. But authorities say that Newton instead brought Williamson back to his residence in Monroe, where he had been living in a trailer, before killing the 18-year-old.Edwards said Williamson agreed to download the family locator safety app Life 360 so she could track Williamson’s phone, but she became concerned after Williamson’s location was turned off.

guilty of second-degree murder and malicious harassment — a hate crime charge — for strangling Kuhnhausen, who was 17, to death and then burying her remains in a wooded area near Larch Mountain, in a remote part of northeast Clark County, in southern Washington.Kuhnhausen went missing on June 6, 2019 while crashing at a friend’s house. Six months later, on Dec.

Springfield News-Leader. Court documents say that Nelson and Lucious met on an online dating website and had arranged to meet up at Lucious’s apartment, where, prosecutors allege, Nelson fatally shot her.According to charging documents, Nelson matched the description of the man witnesses saw at the scene of the shooting, and drives the same type of car witnesses reported seeing at the scene. Police claim they found blood on his shoes and a gun in his home matching a shell casing found in Lucious’s apartment.Upon being taken into custody, Nelson initially agreed to speak with police and then asked to end the questioning.

according to CNN. “For too long vulnerable victims have suffered the consequences of systematic machismo, inequity, discrimination, lack of education, lack of guidance and above all lack of action.”LGBTQ and women’s activists have begged the government to take action to curb instances of domestic and gender-based violence, which they claim have gotten worse after Hurricane Maria struck the island in 2017.

analysis by Media Matters for America. In total, 37 transgender, nonbinary, or gender-nonconforming people were killed in the United States in 2020. Throughout the course of the year, there were 139 news articles, including 5 reprints, that misgendered or “deadnamed” 23 of those 37 — in violation of best practices set by major news organizations.

Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide, a project of TGEU, an organization focused on strengthening transgender rights in Europe and Central Asia. In tracking the number of transgender violent deaths, TGEU has documented each killing, providing horrific details of the murders, which include victims being burned alive, suffocated, stoned, or shot to death. Of that total number of deaths, 287 occurred in Central or South America, with 152, or 43% of all murders, occurring in Brazil, followed by Mexico, where 57 trans people were killed in an act of violence.

attacked by a mob inside her own home says that police officers who responded to her home were “belligerent and unsympathetic” and trivialized injuries she suffered during the attack.Kendall Stephens, the victim, recently spoke with the Human Rights Campaign about her experience. Stephens, who had just started classes at Temple University, said in the interview that she was in her bedroom studying when she hear what sounded like fighting outside the front door.

Serena Angelique Velazquez, one of two transgender women whose bodies were found in a burned out car in Puerto Rico – Photo: Facebook.

Nina Pop – Photo: Facebook

Tony McDade – Photo: Facebook.

Joseph Cannon and Nina Pop – Photos: Sikeston Department of Public Safety; Facebook.