GLAD Statement on Killing of Yampi Mendez Arocho
March 12, 2020
March 12, 2020
BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 12 -- GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders issued the following statement:
We are deeply dismayed to learn of the recent death of 19-year-old Yampi Mendez Arocho, a transgender man killed in Puerto Rico.
Arocho's death is the third known violent death of a member of the transgender community this year. We must all do more to end this epidemic of violence and to combat the discrimination, misunderstanding, and hate that fuel it.
We are deeply dismayed to learn of the recent death of 19-year-old Yampi Mendez Arocho, a transgender man killed in Puerto Rico.
Arocho's death is the third known violent death of a member of the transgender community this year. We must all do more to end this epidemic of violence and to combat the discrimination, misunderstanding, and hate that fuel it.