Each year homeless advocates in San Jose remember the hundreds of people who die while living on the streets there. Today also marks two years since two unhoused people were stabbed to death while sheltering in a San Jose church.
Some right-wing beliefs are forcing me to reevaluate my own actions—or lack thereof. The relentless attack on the LGBTQ community—especially trans people—that has been such a central part of
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Alexandria Winchester, Trans Woman Shot, Makes 44 2020 Killings
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“Alexandria mattered to her community and to the world,” Lindsey Clark, associate director of the transgender justice initiative at the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement. “The loss of another transgender person in 2020 is devastating.”
Winchester was a client of the the Ali Forney Center, which provides support to homeless LGBTQ+ youth. The center posted to Facebook they were “shattered” by news of her murder.
“This week we learned that one of our clients, Alexandria Winchester, a young transgender woman of color, was murdered on the streets of our city,” they wrote. “The details about her murder are still emerging, and it is believed she knew her murderer. We do not know whether she was targeted because of her identity. We are shattered,