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US sees 16th trans person killed in 2021

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Tiara Banks, a 24-year-old black trans woman, is the 16th known trans person to have been killed in the US this year after she was murdered in Chicago on April 21.

According to LGBTQ Nation, Banks was driving her car and was stopped at a junction when she was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene.

No further details have yet been released and no suspects have been publicly identified. Banks is the third trans woman to have been killed in Chicago within the past four months.

In response to her death, Tori Cooper, the Human Rights Campaign’s director of community engagement for the Transgender Justice Initiative said: “Losing yet another member of our community to senseless acts of violence against transgender people,.

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