Members of the LGBTQ community are demanding answers after the recent deaths of two Chicago-area Black transgender women. BlackVoicesWTTW
Members of the LGBTQ community are demanding answers after the recent deaths of two Black transgender women.
The deaths of Malary and LaBelle come after at least five Black transgender women were killed in the Chicago area in 2021. Their names are Brianna Hamilton Disaya Monaee Smith, Tiara Banks, Tyianna Alexander and Courtney Eshay Key.
“The importance of a state emergency is that resources, dollars, connections in the bringing together of multiple governments, working together with community groups to really make a real meaningful change when it comes to these numbers for prevention,” said York. “We all need to do more to make sure that people who are members of the trans community are not vilified, that they’re not ostracized and that they are accepted into our families into our community,” said Lightfoot. “We’ve got to stand tall with our trans brothers and sisters and make sure that they’re getting exactly the kinds of support and acceptance that the rest of the gay and lesbian community has received through hard work, struggle and advocacy.”“The response is political language.
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