Next month, we’ll mark the Transgender Day of Remembrance again, and I’m dreading it. That’s three more months in which the death tolls for both COVID-19 and trans victims can grow. And unfortunately, the hell that has been the year 2020 still has close to three more months left. Once they got her name and gender right, news outlets across the country highlighted that Harris’ murder meant that the highest number of violent deaths ever tracked in one year, 31, had been reached-equaling the death toll of 2017. “We say ‘at least’ because too often these deaths go unreported-or misreported by failing to identify the victim as trans or by misgendering and misnaming the victim,” an HRC spokesperson said in a statement, noting there were indeed local media reports that misidentified Harris, laying bare a lack of training and interaction with the transgender community. Also, in recording Harris as the 31 st transgender or gender non-conforming American to meet a violent death, HRC underscores that number is the absolute minimum. The Human Rights Campaign pointed out Harris’ murder is the fourth violent death of a transgender or gender non-conforming person in the U.S. Richmond County police are looking for a suspect.īut who is looking to stop the ongoing violence against this marginalized community here and around the world? Two other trans people were killed in that area within the past year, according to WRDW-TV. ![]() Most of the victims, like Harris, were Black or Latinx. The coroner ruled her death a homicide, making her the 31st victim of anti-transgender violence in the United States in 2020. Harris’s body was found in Meadowbrook Park at 2:35 p.m.
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