Transgender Teen's Death a Hate Crime?

http://isabellestpierre.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/transgender-teens-death-a-hate-crime/
Isabelle Saint-Pierre
7/26/2008

Greetings Everyone,

As some of you may already be aware an 18-year old transgender girl was murdered in Colorado. Why should this be of concern when so many people are murdered on a daily basis in this country? Because this murder shows the continued problems people of the transgender community face on a daily basis. The murder rate for the general population in the United States is 1 in 18,000 (roughly); the murder rate for people in the transgender community is 1 in 12 and may actually be higher because news agencies often do not report the victim as transgender but rather by their birth gender.