Most of the transgender people killed in 2019 have been black women. TransgenderDayofRemembrance tdor
What happens after a transgender woman is murdered? For family and friends, a long and agonizing search for closureMuhlaysia Booker was a nurturer: the 22-year-old transgender woman took care of her community and loved to make people laugh.
In some cases, police and lawyers inflict further harm by misgendering and misnaming victims. And, in every case, advocates say convictions do not prevent violence against transgender people in the first place. It wasn't the first time Booker survived assault, Anderson says, recounting that someone threw urine at Booker while she worked a fast food drive-thru window and another instance in which football players jumped her as she walked home. Booker had tough skin, Anderson says, and tried to smile through it all.
Since Booker's assault and murder, which are separate cases with different suspects, Anderson has lost weight and been in and out of the hospital. She says the stress and grief exacerbated her chronic health conditions, which prevented her from attending the trial of one of the men accused of beating Booker.For transgender people in 2019, a conflicted reality of breakthroughs, barriers
Texas isn't alone in the issue. Hate crime laws don't cover gender identity in 30 other states, including Florida, where at least seven transgender people have been killed in the last two years.Avid traveler Cathalina Christina James planned to leave Jacksonville, Florida, and head home to Florence, South Carolina, the day police found her dead. Wanting answers from 300 miles away, her family rented a van and drove along the roads James should have.
Her mother and father did deliver the information to detectives at the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, James says. Nearly 17 months later, no suspect has been arrested, according to the sheriff's office database. There is no new information on the active homicide investigation, public information officer Christian Hancock said."I just don't think these cases are a priority with Jacksonville Sheriff's Office — I really, really don't," James says.
Family members hold pictures of Cathalina Christina James, who was killed in June 2018, at her celebration of life. Siblings Tameka, Candace and Mylann James, along with their mother Quenstella James, are waiting for an arrest in the homicide investigation.
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