Today you have been shared and read the stories of four Black Transgender women, Nedra Sequence Morris, Ariyanna Mitchell, Nikai David, and Tiffany Banks, and of Asher Garcia, a Latino child. Because South America is the continent with the largest Black population outside of Africa, it is hard to say how many of these Latin American deaths may have been AfroLatin people. At least 222 trans or gender-diverse people were murdered in Latin America from October 2021 to September 2022, according to Statisa, with 96 homicides in Brazil alone and 56 deaths in Mexico. While here in the USA, the list skews heavily towards Black people, internationally, it skews toward Latin American deaths. Some people will read off the entire international list, which as of this writing contains 272 names. Another statistic from the HRC is that, overwhelmingly, the cause of death is gun violence. This year, like so many years before it, the oldest, the youngest, the first and the last person who died were Black. Like many transgender victims of violent crime, she was misgendered in police reports and buried under her deadname, although her family did include Tiffany and a current photo in her obituary. Miami-Dade Police arrested and charged a man with murder in the 2nd degree with a weapon. According to her family, she loved to dance, describing her as “a very sociable and beautiful butterfly.” She worked at LA Beauty & Aesthetics at Banks Beauty Bar. The most recent death was Tiffany Banks, a 25-year-old Black transgender woman from Miami, Florida. Friends remembered her as a “sweet” and “happy, fun person.” Nikai was 33 years of age when she was shot on Dec. 20, 2021, and now was Nikai David, a Black transgender woman from Oakland, California. The first person who was killed between Nov. Like many transgender women who are murdered, she was misgendered by police in police reports following her death. Always had one,” said a transgender friend of hers who was interviewed by WAVY in Hampton, Virginia. Documents indicate that transphobia may have been a motive for her murder, as witnesses reported that Williams asked if she was a girl or a boy, and after being told she was a boy, shot and killed her. The suspect in her death, Jimmy Leshawn Williams, allegedly shot Ariyanna during an argument with her friend and his girlfriend. Ariyanna Mitchell, also a Black transgender woman, was shot and killed after intervening in a fight during a house party. The eighth grader was being bullied at school for being transgender and had been a victim of physical and sexual abuse as a child. That does not include the 11 known suicides, the youngest of which was 14-year-old Asher Garcia of Frazee, Minnesota, a Latino transgender boy. It can be particularly stressful for transgender members of the Black community watching the names and faces of the dead who are overwhelmingly majority Black year after year.Īs I write this article on Nov. ![]() Most of us here in the USA read a list of people who died in this country. Part of the way the day is commemorated is to read off or listen to someone else reading the list of transgender people who lost their lives due to violence between this Nov. 20 is an emotionally difficult day for many members of the transgender community. 20, as we face down the terrifying statistics.Īccording to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, which has been keeping statistics for the past decade, transgender and gender non-conforming victims of violence are overwhelmingly Black and under 35. ![]() The annual statistics on violent crimes committed against transgender people, and especially Black and Brown transgender women, are a horror story for the trans community, a nightmare monster we stare directly in the face every Nov. Internationally, most of the names are Latina trans women. In 2019, I wrote an article for the San Francisco BayView called “ Transmisogynoir: How Black Transwoman Murders Have Reached Epidemic Proportions While America Sleeps.” Early in the article, it talks about how, back in 2015, Black Lives Matter listed Trans Lives Matter as their cause for the year because the high number of Black names on the list made it a Black issue.Įvery year, most of the names on the list for the United States of America are Black trans women. 3, 2021, at the age of only 33.īecause I’m a Black non-binary person, I process the horrors of Transgender Day of Remembrance both as a member of the transgender community and as a member of the Black community. The first transgender woman killed in the past year, since Nov.
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