Nina Pop The National Center for Transgender Equality is calling on Missouri state lawmakers to pass legislation protecting transgender people from discrimination and to stop enacting legislation targeting transgender people for discrimination following the murder of a transgender woman in southern Missouri last weekend.
Nina Pop, 28, was found dead inside her apartment in Sikeston, about 145 miles south of St. Louis, on Sunday night, May 3, according to KCTV5 News and the Associated Press.