Her killing was the second in two weeks of a Black transgender woman in Dallas, and she was the fifth transgender woman in three years to be violently attacked or found dead in the city. In addition, the department said in a statement that the remains of a transgender woman were found in a field in July 2017. “We literally just celebrated the life of Ms. Booker last week, and on Saturday night they find another transgender woman whose body has been left in a marshy area.”“People are afraid,” Weaver said. But the department said it was investigating similarities between her slaying and attacks on two other transgender women: an October murder, and a nonfatal stabbing in April. In another case, the victim allowed someone into their vehicle.”Fatal attacks on transgender women have been on the rise in recent years, with Black transgender women the most frequent targets, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights group.

Source: National Post June 04, 2019 13:18 UTC