Denali Berries Stuckey, a Black transgender woman, was found fatally shot in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday, July 20, and she’s the 12th known transgender woman of color to be killed in the United States this year, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
29 year old Denali Berries Stuckey was found shot to death early this morning; making her the 12th Black trans woman (that we know of) murdered this year. ?? We don’t deserve death. We deserve, jobs, housing, healthcare, and social support. More importantly—we deserve love. #RIP pic.twitter.com/7AO5HuWtmb
— Ashlee Marie Preston (@AshleeMPreston) July 21, 2019
Last year, HRC reports, advocates tallied 26 deaths of trans people in the U.S. due to fatal violence, and again, the majority were Black transgender women.
Related: 31-year-old Dana Martin becomes the US’ first trans murder victim of 2019
“While the details of these cases differ, it is clear that fatal violence disproportionately affects transgender women of color, and that the intersections of racism, sexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia conspire to deprive them of employment, housing, healthcare and other necessities, barriers that make them vulnerable,” the organization writes.
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Here are the names of the 12 transgender individuals fatally shot or killed by other violent means in 2019, all of them Black women.
- Dana Martin, 31, fatally shot in Montgomery, Alabama, on January 6
- Jazzaline Ware, found dead in Memphis in March
- Ashanti Carmon, 27, fatally shot in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on March 30
- Claire Legato, 21, fatally shot in Cleveland on April 15
- Muhlaysia Booker, 23, fatally shot in Dallas on May 18
- Michelle ‘Tamika’ Washington, 40, fatally shot in Philadelphia on May 19
- Paris Cameron, 20, one of three people killed in an anti-LGBTQ shooting in Detroit on May 25, according to local reports
- Chynal Lindsey, 26, found dead in Dallas on June 1
- Chanel Scurlock, 23, fatally shot in Lumberton, North Carolina
- Zoe Spears, 23, found with signs of trauma in Fairmount Heights, Maryland, and pronounced dead on June 13, according to local reports
- Brooklyn Lindsey, 32, found dead in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 25, according to local news reports
- Denali Berries Stuckey, 29, fatally shot in North Charleston, South Carolina, on July 20
For more information on anti-transgender violence, refer to HRC’s “Dismantling a Culture of Violence” report.
WashDrySpin
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Kieran
Has anyone heard a peep out of Al Sharpton? Where are the marches? #Black Trans Lives Matter.
Kangol2
So only a Black public figure can respond to the deaths of these trans women? That’s so racist. Why aren’t you out there marching? Did you even participate in Pride and speak out against anti-gay Republicans during Pride Month? Don’t gay lives matter to you?
WashDrySpin
White people like Kieran only know one black activist…it does not make him racist however without a doubt it makes him totally ignorant
Hdtex
@Kieran
What a garbage comment. Ask where Trump is you racist asshat.
Cam
Translation: The right wing troll account is trying to take attention off of the fact that Republicans specifically have attacked the Trans community, changing laws to allow them to be kicked out of the military and appointing judges specifically to take away their rights.
Also, notice how the right wing accounts ALWAYS want to attack black people?
truthseeker
@Cam
How would any of those gripes you have with Republicans have changed the circumstances of these 12 people who were killed? These 12 people weren’t killed by Republicans and weren’t killed because of who they are. They were killed by other black people mostly from gang / drug related incidents
balttymore
The problem is also the African-American community and the deep rooted homophobia…I think in these poor communities when you are a fem gay man, it is easier to live as a woman and try to blend in…The problem is that most of them never leave their communities…The amount of AA trans women in Baltimore trying to hustle/escort blows my mind….
Wicked Dickie
I didn’t realize homophobia was eradicated in the white community?
PaulSteven-CO
Virtually none of these homicides are hate crimes. So “transphobia” or “homophobia” have nothing to do with it. Virtually all of the deceased were involved with prostitution, drugs or were killed in ordinary street crime in in crime-ridden areas.
Cam
Except the African American community isn’t the one dehumanizing transpeople by legalizing their firing from the military, nor is it the African American community that said they would appoint judges to strip away LGBT rights was it? That was the White, Straight, Trump administration and the Republican Party.
But nice try.
In a few recent threads you right wing trolls have been DESPERATE to change the topic and attack the African American community. Try it on a non-LGBTQ blog, we all saw the memos from the now defunct hate group NOM saying that their main tactic was going to be to try to put a false wedge between the LGBTQ and the Black community. You’re tactics are obvious and sad.
PaulSteven-CO
Why are there all these articles about the number of “transwomen” who are killed and not one single article about the number of LGB people who are killed?
Also, while every death is a tragedy, 12 homicides in the entire United States in 7 months is miniscule. It would be 12 out of approximately 7,000. That’s a prevalence of 0.17%, which is actually lower than the prevalence of transgenderism in the population (0.3%-0.5%). So if anything, it shows that trans people enjoy a below-average homicide risk.
WashDrySpin
You comment reminds me how blacks (slaves) were told statistically and mathematically that they were 3/5th human…your comment screams of hatred and minimization of a life…but you are on the internet so you feel embolden to be who you truly are
marion
@ PaulSteven-CO, Thank You i was wondering what the stats would be.
@WashDrySpin a strawman response if ever I saw one.
PaulSteven-CO
@WashSpinDry The above stats consider every homicide victim as a person. No fractions for trans or non-trans people. Those statistics show that trans people have a lower risk of homicide than non-trans people. Accordingly, if we value all people fully and equally, we ought to focus more resources where the problem is greater, i.e., non-trans people. And we also ought to honor the humanity of LGB victims by giving LGB homicides equal coverage.
truthseeker
@WashDrySpin
You comment reminds me how blacks (slaves) were told statistically and mathematically that they were 3/5th human…
You’re trying to act as if these 12 transgender individuals matter more than all of the other people who died this year, as if everyone else is only 3/5th of importance and these individuals are more important.
As PaulSteven-CO pointed out, transgender people have a below-average homicide risk.
WashDrySpin
@marion and truth seeker
va te faire foutre
Cam
So I see since your “Change the topic to attack black people” didn’t work, the trolls are now trying the “Act like we can never point to any statistic unless it includes every person in the world” tactic.
Let me guess, next you’re going to say that Trans people shouldn’t complain because in some other country they are jailed or murdered for existing.
That’s usually step 3 with you folks.
truthseeker
@Cam
Wrong. No one said the data should include every single person. It’s fine to point out how certain groups statistically rank in various situations. The issue is how the data is used to frame a talking point. The data is used to push a false narrative that “While the details of these cases differ, it is clear that fatal violence disproportionately affects transgender women of color”
As presented above, the data does not show that fatal violence disproportionately effects transgender women of color more because they are below the average rate of fatal violence compared to other groups. If you argue otherwise then you must not understand math.
Franklin
I knew anti-blackness in the American gay community was a thing, but whew if there aren’t some really trash takes on Queerty as of late.