The latest tragic news from the Ali Forney Centre, which helps homeless LGBT+ youth is the announcemnet of the death of Alexandria Winchester, a 24-year-old Latina transgender woman, who was shot dead the day after Christmas in the Bronx, New York.
Alexandria was at least the 44th trans or gender non-conforming person to be murdered in the US in 2020, the Human Rights Campaign reports, amid an epidemic of violence against the trans community.
| The sobering figure makes 2020 the worst year since the advocacy group started keeping track of the violent deaths of trans people in 2013 — and it surpassed the previous record in October, with three months left in the year. |
The Ali Forney Centre, which posted about her death as Alexandria was a ‘client’ of theirs said in a Facebook statement that she may have known her killer.
This week we learned that one of our clients, Alexandria Winchester, a young transgender woman of color, was murdered on…
Posted by Ali Forney Center on Thursday, December 31, 2020
Human Rights Campaign president Alphonso David said in a statement “This epidemic of violence, which is particularly impacting transgender women of color, must and can be stopped,”.”The new total, which the HRC suspects is an underestimate, surpasses the 27 reported killings of trans people in all of 2019, 26 reported killings in 2018, 29 in 2017, 23 in 2016, 21 in 2015, 20 in 2014 and 19 in 2013.
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