'I'm an endangered species… but I cannot stop living.' For trans women of color facing 'epidemic' of violence, each day is a fight for survival:
“She’s very infectious,” said Jessica Anderson, one of Booker’s best friends. “I don’t care if you’re in the worst mood…she’s most definitely going to bring you out of that.”
“The whole apartment complex was outside… and nobody helped her. It actually gives me the chills,” said Deamon at the site of where her friend was brutally beaten.Bystanders captured video of the encounter, which showed a man in a white long-sleeved T-shirt and white pants as he ran up to Booker and threw her down. Several other men joined in on the assault, stomping and kicking Booker as she struggled on the ground. Eventually, a group of women intervened.
“This was the first time I ever seen my best friend look at herself and just be like, ‘I look really, really pretty. Like, I look like a girl,’” Anderson said. “She said, ‘I look like a girl.’ And she was really, really, really beautiful that day.” At least 26 transgender people were killed in the U.S. in 2018, with black transgender women targeted the most, the group said.
In Dallas, Amber Roman, an LGBTQ liaison and community engagement officer in the Dallas Police Department, is working to earn the local trans community’s trust. “Any time a police department is missing their mark in the beginning with misgendering folks who are victims of a crime, it feels like a second -- probably a second injustice for them,” Roman said. “Using the proper gender pronouns is essential and vital for the investigation, for folks to come forward if they have any additional information.”
For those in the trans community seeking love and support, Casa Ruby, an LGBTQ community center based in Washington, D.C., offers a haven. Many of the young people who come into the organization say they have been kicked out of their homes for being trans. Corado has a wall of photos she takes of all the trans women and girls who call Casa Ruby home. She does this because she knows that there’s a possibility they will be killed for being trans.
“I had so much blood in my mouth and my throat -- all over,” she said. “This wasn't just some black eye. It wasn't some scrapes and bruises.”“I hear the fear in my voice, just knowing that I knew something was coming,” she said. “It's scary to see myself in that situation. It's just something I never thought would happen.”
“I saw nobody else taking on that responsibility. So it’s like the old saying, 'If you want a job done right, do it yourself,'” she said. “I wanted to role model what a story looked like to the media that respectfully covered trans folks.”
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