GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders Response to Hate Crime-Motivated Killing of Transgender Woman in Puerto Rico
February 26, 2020
February 26, 2020
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 26 -- GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders issued the following news release on Feb. 25:
The brutal murder of Alexa, a transgender woman in Puerto Rico on Monday is horrific and deeply dismaying. Our hearts are with her friends and loved ones.
Transgender people throughout the U.S. remain vulnerable to hate-motivated violence, spurred on by anti-transgender rhetoric, policy, and continued discrimination. We must, and we will, continue fighting . . .
The brutal murder of Alexa, a transgender woman in Puerto Rico on Monday is horrific and deeply dismaying. Our hearts are with her friends and loved ones.
Transgender people throughout the U.S. remain vulnerable to hate-motivated violence, spurred on by anti-transgender rhetoric, policy, and continued discrimination. We must, and we will, continue fighting . . .