Two trans women have been killed in the United States in the past week, both of them were stabbed to death. Nina Pop, 28, was murdered on 3 May in Sikeston, Missouri, while Helle Jae O’Regan, 20, was murdered on 6 May in San Antonio, Texas.
Their deaths are believed to be the tenth and eleventh deaths of trans or gender non-conforming people in the past year, and the fifth and sixth murders in the past four weeks.