The Human Rights Campaign has tracked at least 136 deaths of transgender people since 2013 due to fatal violence, with most victims being black transgender women.
Julisa Abad said she's one of the more fortunate transgender women in Detroit's Six Mile and Woodward area.
The Human Rights Campaign has tracked at least 136 deaths of transgender people since 2013 due to fatal violence, with most victims being black transgender women, but the organization said the violence is hard to track due to misgendering and transphobia. The actual number of killings could be much higher.
Experts and advocates point to these violent attacks as examples of why the U.S. needs stronger anti-discrimination policies and legal protections for transgender people. Many of the reported cases involved clear anti-transgender bias. In others, the victim's transgender status may have put them at risk in other ways, such as forcing them into unemployment, poverty, homelessness or sex work, according to HRC's research.
"Even though we have our civil rights and marriage equality, and laws against discrimination, there is still violence and there's still hatred and there's still harassment going on," she added. "Unfortunately, yes, you do have to tell people how to talk to people," Horowitz said."Basically, the point of the project is bridging that gap between the community and law enforcement, so that when they are targeted, we can actually address it and prosecute those crimes.""Today, we've had 26 cases that we've done, and I would say half, about half, of that caseload has involved biased-based crimes against transgender women of color," Horowitz said.
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