End epidemic of violence against transgender women

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End epidemic of violence against transgender women

http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2015/10/01/end-epidemic-violence-against-transgender-women/73159294/

Detroit Free Press
By Chad Griffin and Judy Shepard, Detroit Free Press guest writers
8:14 p.m. EDT October 1, 2015

In Kansas City, Missouri, Tamara Dominguez was brutally run down by a car in a church parking lot. In Phoenix, Kandis Capri was just beginning to discover acceptance from her family when she was shot to death. In Detroit, friends learned that 20-year-old Amber Monroe, who loved to dance, had been shot and killed. All of these women were killed this August. And all were transgender women of color — victims of an epidemic of violence that is plaguing transgender women, leaving at least 19 dead in 2015 alone.
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