Horrific hit-and-run kills Black trans woman Honee Walker
Walker has been deadnamed and misgendered in local reporting.
October 08 2024 12:39 PM
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Walker has been deadnamed and misgendered in local reporting.
Questions remain a year after Black transgender woman Tete Gulley's body was founding hanging from a tree in a Portland park. Police claim suicide, but the family was told Gulley was murdered and there's a video.
The high school student who was arrested for the "super heinous crime," smirked through his court appearance.
She is the 11th to die from gun violence.
Her friend, Ashanti Carmon, was murdered nearly three months ago in the same area.
This marks the 17th trans person murdered in 2018.
"Even though G was not physically injured, she was clearly traumatized by what happened."
Caldwell was a beloved member of the local LGBT community.
When sentenced to prison, trans women find themselves housed in facilities that misgender them and make them extraordinarily vulnerable to physical and sexual assault.
She's the 20th transgender person killed in 2016.
“12 years? That’s how much our lives are worth?”
In light of recent anti-LGBT legislation, three Daily Show segments focused on educating the general public about transgender rights.
"We want this case to send a message," says Jennifer Louise Lopez, executive director of Everything Transgender in NYC.
NYPD has since released a photo of the suspect and is sure he will be apprehended.
Rather than the more severe charge of murder, Joseph Pemberton was convicted of homicide for the 2014 killing of Jennifer Laude.
"We in the transgender community right now are reeling."
16 trans people have been killed so far this year.
A 21-year-old trans woman is dead in a city that celebrates diversity.