Protecting trans people
Ahmad Goree and Stephanie Houston meeting with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Muhlaysia Booker Foundation executive director, board president meet with federal officials in D.C. From Staff Reports Muhlaysia Booker Foundation Executive Director Stephanie Houston and Board President Ahmad Goree spent two days in Washington, D.C., recently, meeting with key officials in the nation’s capital and advocating for the foundation, the transgender community and their families and other marginalized communities.
Houston is the mother of Dallas trans woman Muhlaysia Booker, who made headlines in April 2019 when a video of her being beaten by a group of men in a South Dallas apartment complex parking lot as a crowd of people watched and cheered went viral.
A month later, on May 18, 2019, Booker was murdered and her body dumped in the middle of an East Dallas street. The trial for the man accused of murdering Booker, Kendrell Lavar Lyles, is set for Nov.
6. Although the beating and the murder were later determined not to be connected, Muhlaysia Booker became a national example of the plight of trans women of color and the hate and violence they face.
