Abstract
In March of 2019, Ashanti Carmon was shot to death in Fairmount Heights, Maryland, a couple blocks near the boundary with the District of Columbia. She was a transgender woman who had been homeless because of family rejection stemming from her being trans, and had resorted to sex work to survive. One thing that compounds this tragedy is that it wasn’t unique even in its location or time frame: Only a few months later, in June of 2019, Zoe Spears was also shot to death a couple blocks away from where Ashanti’s murder took place. The day before her death, she had texted a friend asking for $10 so she could eat. These two murders, as well as all the others that are memorialized in candle-lit vigils on Trans Day of Remembrance every November 20th, are simply the end result of society’s pervasive transphobia and discrimination against the trans community. In this chapter, we intend to examine the topic of violence against the trans community, including the nuance often lacking in many conversations about hate crimes as well as including police perpetrated anti-trans violence.
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Rodríguez-Roldán, V.M. (2021). Like a Candle Flickering in the Mist: Violence Against the Trans Community. In: Lund, E.M., Burgess, C., Johnson, A.J. (eds) Violence Against LGBTQ+ Persons. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52612-2_8
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