Slaughter Of Young Black Trans Women Intensifies, With 5 Murders Reported In 1 Week – Towleroad

The other day we told you how Shade Schuler, whose badly decomposed body was found in a vacant field in Dallas, was the 13th transgender person known to have been murdered this year, eclipsing the total from all of 2014.Since then, three additional murders of transgender women have been reported, bringing the 2015 total to a horrifying 16 — including five whose deaths were first reported in the last week. Of the 16 victims, 14 were transgender women of color, and most have been under 30.Ashton O’Hara, 25, of Detroit (right), was found brutally murdered in a field on July 17. Equality Michigan reports:

 

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