Today, most transgender murder cases continue to remain unsolved in the United States because police are struggling to connect with LGBTQ+ communities and properly represent victims in the media. Several experts and advocates for the transgender and LGBTQ+ communities have stated that United States police routinely fail to protect transgender victims via illformed state hate crime laws and improper identification practices such as misgendering and misnaming individuals.
The Death of SOPHIE: Losing the Woman Who Redefined Pop
Grammy-nominated artist, music producer, revolutionizer of the avant-garde pop genre, and LGBTQIA+ icon, Sophie Xeon, is dead.
Transgender Violence Surges in Puerto Rico
With the death of Samuel Edmund Damian Valentin, seven trans people have been killed Puerto Rico within the past year. LGBTQ+ activists like Pedro Julio Serrano are demanding that the government declare a state of emergency for gender violence and hate crimes. Additionally, the violence is the worst it has been in over a decade. In 2020, more trans people were murdered in the U.S. than in 2019.
Philippine President Duterte Pardons US marine over Transgender murder
On Monday, Duterte issued a pardon to Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton, who has been in prison since 2014 for murdering Jennifer Laude.
Week In True Crime: Murders of Toyin Salau, Riah Milton, and Remy Fells with Guests Nightmerica Podcast
This week, we discuss the murder of Toyin Salau and the recent black trangender murders of Riah Milton and Remy Fells. Plus, we have special guests Nightmerica Podcast!
The Week In True Crime: Disappearance of Vanessa Guillen, Transgender Murders in Puerto Rico, Angela Summers, and Slay Queens
MurderMurder News presents the biggest true crime stories of the week! This week we discuss a missing soldier, transgender murders in Puerto Rico, and the shooting of a postal worker. Plus, we have special guests Slay Queens!
Serial killer who strangled a trans woman, described as ‘the worst of the worst’, has been sentenced to death
The murderer, of Houston, Texas, was handed a death sentence by a jury on Tuesday over the 2010 murders of transgender woman Charlie Rodriguez and homeless woman Reita Long.
A transgender woman’s brutal murder has shocked Puerto Rico and renewed a conversation about transphobia
Alexa Negrón Luciano — also known as Neulisa Luciano Ruiz — a homeless, transgender woman who was brutally killed in the city of Toa Baja last Monday.
Bill named after slain transgender Vancouver teen seeks to limit panic defenses
Rep. Sharon Wylie, D-Vancouver, evoked the memory of slain transgender teen Nikki Kuhnhausen before her colleagues last week approved a bill limiting so-called panic defenses.
Kuhnhausen, 17, disappeared in early June. Her remains were discovered Dec. 7 after a human skull was found in the woods at Larch Mountain, southeast of Battle Ground.
Transgender woman spat on, slapped in Manhattan subway by couple yelling transphobic slurs
Serena Daniari was at the West 155th Street subway station in Harlem waiting for a C train around 9 p.m. when a man and woman started shouting transphobic slurs at her, Daniari said.
Two transgender women of color killed in same weekend, one arrest made
An arrest was made in the fatal shooting of Michelle Washington, said Philadelphia police. No arrests yet in the death of Muhlaysia Booker, said Dallas police.
Police look at whether transgender women’s deaths connected
Police in Dallas say they are investigating whether the killings of two transgender women and an assault on a third are connected.