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Transgender
Two trans Americans killed
Tyianna “Davarea” Alexander, a 28-year-old black trans woman, and Samuel Edmund Damián Valentín, a trans man living in Puerto Rico, are the first American trans people to have been killed in acts of violence this year. According to the Chicago-Sun Times, Alexander was shot dead last week in the Gresham neighbourhood on Chicago’s south side.