Black transgender women

Regina Allen helped identify her suspected killer moments before she died.

“She used to say ‘Mom, I’m going to be famous one day,'” her mother said. “You couldn’t help but love her. Ain’t hurt nobody. Loved everybody.”

As with many other trans people violently killed, reports deadnamed and misgendered Marquiisha Lawrence following her death.

Thomas Hardin is believed to be the first confirmed victim of a couple that went on a month-long shooting spree around South Carolina and Missouri. She once lived with one of the suspects.

Courtney Eshay Kay’s family told Chicago police that she was a trans woman. They’re still classifying her under the wrong gender.

The record year of violence against trans people didn’t stop for the holiday, with a separate murder in Miami possibly marking a record 40th violent death tallied so far this year.

One person who saw her body said that “this was something he will not soon forget.”

At this crossroads in history, the labor movement will stand shoulder to shoulder with Black transgender workers and affirm through our actions that Black Trans Lives Matter.

Tens of thousands of people marched nationwide to say #AllBlackLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter