Real News from the Real Transgender World |
Edition Date: April 25th, 2024 |
By: Matthew Rodriguez Columbus, Ohio police are investigating the death of 28-year-old Rae’Lynn Thomas, who was shot and killed by her mother’s ex-boyfriend, who lived with her family at the time, according to WBNS. Thomas’ mother, Renee Thomas, shared her daughter’s final words with local news: “Mom, please please don’t leave me. Mom, I’m dying,”…
By: Lana de Holanda Jones I wish I didn’t have to start my post like this, but there is no other way: About 57 transgender people were killed in Brazil in the first 26 days of 2016. These people weren’t victims of armed robbery or stray bullets — which are, unfortunately, commonplace causes of dead…
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…
By: Eduarda Alice Santos A Brazilan woman’s recent facial feminization surgery (FFS), not fully healed was torn apart in the attack. Melissa Hudson is a young events promoter and makeup artist. She is 22 years old. She is also transgender. Last Sunday (13), about 4,30 am, she was walking with some friends when suddenly a…
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…