What is your plan to protect the transgender community, particularly Black and brown trans women, from high levels of violence they face? So far this year, 30 transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals have been killed, the majority of whom were transgender women of color, HRC noted in a news release.
Given this epidemic of violence — and with death tolls surpassing last year’s number of trans people killed — LGBTQ advocates want to know how the next administration will combat such violence.Because of anti-transgender discrimination in the workplace, many transgender people are often forced into the underground economy to make money to survive, often resorting to prostitution, selling drugs, or other illicit activities, to feed.