A demonstrator waves the trans Pride flag in Madrid, Spain. (Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Alexandria Winchester, a 24-year-old Latina transgender woman, was shot dead on Boxing Day in the Bronx, New York.
She was a client of the Ali Forney Centre, which helps homeless LGBT+ youth, which posted about her death and said she may have known her killer.
“This week we learned that one of our clients, Alexandria Winchester, a young transgender woman of colour, was murdered on the streets of our city,” the organisation said on Facebook.
“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.
Chicago Trans Woman, Alabama Gender-Nonconforming Teen Shot to Death
The deaths of Courtney Eshay Key (pictured) and Jaheim Pugh Jaheim Barbie add to a record annual toll on this community. December 31 2020 3:51 AM EST
Two more transgender or gender-nonconforming Americans have died by violence in December, bringing the total of such deaths to at least 43 in 2020, the deadliest year on record for this population.
Courtney “Eshay” Key, a 25-year-old Black transgender woman, was shot and killed Christmas Day in Chicago’s East Chatham neighborhood, on the city’s south side, local CBS affiliate WBBM reports. Friends and family members said they believe her death was an anti-trans hate crime.
Family of trans woman killed in Chicago believes her shooting is a hate crime
25-year-old Courtney Eshay Key was misgendered in initial police reports
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Eshan Key – Photo: WBBM-TV.
The family of a transgender woman shot and killed in Chicago on Christmas Day believes she was targeted because of her gender identity.
Around 8:35 p.m. on the evening of Dec. 25, police found a body in a car on the south side of East 82nd Street near South Drexel Avenue, in the city’s East Chatham neighborhood.
At first, responding officers thought that the victim, who was pronounced dead on the scene, had been killed in a hit-and-run crash. But police later found she had died from gunshot wounds. The victim was later identified as 25-year-old Courtney “Eshay” Key.
Human Rights Campaign’s Transgender Justice Initiative Announces New Small Grants Program
HRC also announces support of Destination Tomorrow’s work to provide support directly to transgender and non-binary people in urgent need
Today, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF), the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, announced the launch of a new small grants program as a part of the organization’s Transgender Justice Initiative (TJI). The program will award $30,000 nationally in the form of 30 $1,000 grants to community members advancing transgender justice initiatives rooted in partnership with outside organizations. Four grants per city will be available in Atlanta, Cleveland, Dallas, Kansas City, New Orleans and Philadelphia. An additional six grants will be available nationally. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit hrc.im/SmallGrantsApp.
Protesters marched in New York City in June to decry Trump administration policies targeting transgender people.Demetrius Freeman/NYT
Last month, Joe Biden did something no other president-elect had done in a victory speech â he specifically thanked the transgender community as part of what he called âthe broadest and most diverseâ coalition in history. It wasnât the first time Biden mentioned the trans community, which has suffered its deadliest year ever. As the Democratic nominee, Biden called anti-trans violence âan epidemic that needs national leadership.â
When he becomes president next month, Biden must be that leader.
In the United States and Puerto Rico, at least 41 trans and gender nonconforming people have been murdered this year, most of them Black and Latinx trans women. Thatâs a record, and there are still several weeks left in 2020. And I say âat least,â instead of a definitive number because trans people are often misgend