The Human Rights Campaign reported at least 28 transgender or gender non-conforming people have been killed in America so far this year.
WASHINGTON — Transgender women were at the forefront of the first LGBTQ+ Pride movement, also known as the Stonewall Uprising, more than 50 years ago.
As the District prepared for Capital Pride in 2021, two stories involving transgender identity and violence against that community dominated the headlines in the DMV.
One incident involved a Black transgender woman who was violently attacked and stabbed in the head in a possible hate crime, and the other case was about a Virginia teacher who is refusing to call students by their preferred pronouns.
Some community members said the two separate incidents are deeply linked in many ways.
“It’s not that far of a jump to say I don’t respect trans youth in schools to then say I don’t respect trans people in my community,” Mason Dunn, with the Fenway Institute, said.
Dunn and Hope Giselle, with Get Phluid and who is a transgender activist, said the issues involving trans identity and violence against the community…
