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2006 – Gisberta Salce Júnior, a Brazilian homeless transgender woman, was murdered in Oporto, Portugal, by a group of 14 youths between 12 and 16 years old, who tortured and raped her for three days, and finally threw her, still alive, into a well over 15 meters deep, where she drowned. Eleven of the minors received minimal sentences of ...
Young transgender women of color experience violence and murder at a rate much higher than that of their white transgender counterparts. [6] A study conducted by the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition sought to examine the transgender murder rate from 1995 to 2005. The study focused on victims that were under the age of 30.
According to the New York Times she was the third young transgender prostitute murdered in Harlem in 14 months. The killing has never been solved. [259] The Otherside Lounge, a lesbian nightclub in Atlanta, was bombed by Eric Robert Rudolph, the "Olympic Park Bomber," on February 21, 1997; five bar patrons were injured. In a statement released ...
July 17, 2021 – Taya Ashton, a 20-year-old African-American transgender woman, was murdered in her apartment in Suitland, Maryland by her boyfriend, DeAllen Price when he learned that she was transgender. Price pleaded guilty to the charge of second-degree murder and using a firearm in a crime of violence in October 2023.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In the nearly eight months since a transgender woman was shot dead in the middle of a crowded South Florida street, Bree Black’s case has all but gone cold. No one has ...
James Dixon, 26, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for manslaughter in the death of 21-year-old transgender woman Islan Nettles.. On August 17, 2013, Dixon flirted with Nettles during an ...
Gwen Araujo was born on February 24, 1985, in Brawley, California, to Edward Araujo and Sylvia Guerrero. [6] Her parents divorced when she was 10 months old. [7]Araujo came out as transgender in 1999 at the age of 14, and began using the name Gwen after her favorite musician, Gwen Stefani, but also went by Wendy and Lida. [8]
Transgender people experience violence at rates greater than the average person, and about 54% of transgender people have experienced some form of intimate partner violence, the Human Rights ...