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Sara Blackwood is the 33rd known trans person to be killed in the US this year

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On 11 October, which marked National Coming Out Day, Sara was shot as she left work and was transported to a nearby hospital, where she passed away from her injuries.

Her death is the sixth killing of a transgender individual in the past four weeks after Aerrion Burnett, Mia Green, Michelle Michellyn Ramos Vargas, Felycya Harris and Brooklyn Deshuna.

Tori Cooper, HRC Director of Community Engagement for the Transgender Justice Initiative, said in a statement: “This violence is heartbreaking and horrifying.

It must end. “We have already seen more trans and gender non-conforming people killed this year since we began tracking these deaths in 2013, and the numbers continue to climb, even during a pandemic. “We must all ask ourselves what each

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