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As Black Transgender Women Continue to Die, It’s Time for a Call to Action
Already in 2015, two transgender black women have been killed: On Jan. 17 Lamia Beard, 30, of Norfolk, Va., died of a gunshot wound; and in Texas, 24-year-old Ty Underwood was fatally shot on Monday. Today the Human Rights Campaign Foundation—the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization—and the…