An imperfect 10: India Clarke, Aydian Dowling and the long journey to transgender equality
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-lambert/an-imperfect-10-india-cla_b_7860320.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender
The Huffington Post/by Michael Lambert 07/24/2015
"I am a skeptic--something I do not admit lightly. Rarely do coincidences bother me or make me think that yes, the universe really does have a "plan." But this week tested that skepticism. I began to consider that our lives, even just the lives of queer people, are indeed guided by a strange hand of fate--one with a dark humor all its own.
Enter India Clarke. The 25-year-old transgender woman had been beaten to death and her body left in a park near a community center in Tampa. The injustice of her murder reverberated beyond her actual death as news media persistently misgendered her and police called her a "man in a dress." She was the 10th confirmed transgender woman murdered since 2015 began."