Los Angeles Trans Woman of Color Killed on Skid Row

By: Cleis Abeni A 32-year-old transgender woman of color was shot and killed Wednesday at approximately 1:20 p.m. within the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, according to local news station KABC-TV. Officer Tony Im of the Los Angeles Police Department told the Los Angeles Times that the shooting took place in the 500 block…

Iowa Community Mourns Death of Gender-Fluid Teen

By: Cleis Abeni Katrina Johnson moved her family from Chicago to Burlington, Iowa, to escape rising violence in the big city, reports the Des Moines Register. She settled in the small city of around 50,000 residents in a culturally diverse, low-income neighborhood called South Hills. Her family thrived. Then the unthinkable happened. On March 2, Burlington police discovered the…

These Are the U.S. Trans Women Killed in 2015

By Mitch Kellaway | July 27th, 2015 This year has already demonstrated why activists continue to decry an ‘epidemic’ of fatal violence directed at transgender women. Transgender advocates have, for years, been calling for an end to what they label the “epidemic” of transphobic violence. And while every November 20, the community and its allies…