![]() ![]() If you were man enough to do it, be man enough to hold up for it.” “I feel like if you did it, hold up for it. “I feel like how you are going to kill a person and throw them out the car? That is the most heartbreaking thing,” Caldwell’s brother, Cedrick, told the local news outlet. ![]() Caldwell had died from multiple gunshot wounds. Just days prior, police in Madison County, Mississippi, had found 41-year-old Mesha Caldwell, a transgender hair and makeup artist, dead on the side of a rural road outside of Jackson, as Mississippi News Now reported. Mere days into 2017, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, police only found the body of 28-year-old transgender woman Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow because, as KSFY reported, “a neighbor reported a strong odor coming from the apartment.” The stories of these seven deaths are indeed all the more tragic for the youth of the victims-and for the sheer brutality with which their lives were discarded. They will never see a 30th birthday, or 40th birthday, or 50th birthday. “The sad part, to me, is these folks that we lost this month are under age 40. recorded in response to the 2017 murders. “I’ve been fortunate enough to be around on this planet now approaching 55 years-24 of it in this community,” Roberts said in a video message she and fellow members of Black Transwomen, Inc. The continuing attacks have left transgender women of color, like Houston-based blogger and prominent trans activist Monica Roberts, feeling lucky to be alive-and outraged that so many others in her community won’t ever see old age. It is unclear whether the murder rate is increasing or whether victims are being more accurately and consistently identified as transgender-but it is clear that the danger transgender people face is not dissipating. ![]()
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