transgender woman of color was killed in Dallas, I couldn’t help but remember that her death wasn’t the first I mourned this year, and it likely won’t be the last.
Since 2017, nearly 10 percent of all murders of transgender people in this country have occurred in Texas — the highest percentage nationwide.
Political attacks on transgender people in Texas are contributing to a culture of hate and violence that results in our daily persecution and limits our ability to live our lives to the fullest.
Thus far in 2021, Texas legislators have filed about 40 anti-transgender bills. This hostile atmosphere creates deadly circumstances for trans people, particularly dark-skinned Black transgender women.