One man was arrested, charged with aggravated assault, and is now out on bond. A group of men surrounded Booker, who was wearing a pink wig, and rained blow after blow and hurled anti-gay insults at her as she tried to escape. That’s because a month before Booker died, she was brutally beaten in a video that went viral on social media. “This is the first time,” Crowe said, “they can’t tuck it up under the rug.” There are no state protections, and the Trump administration strips federal protections away from them, which enables people to treat them as “less than.” They say they have paid the price for years of social neglect.īut Booker’s death feels different.
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Gentrification drove them out of the city’s leading LGBT neighborhood, and they now congregate on a strip south of the city farther away from the hot spots you’d find in a Dallas tourist guide. Discrimination has made it hard for them to find employment, meaning many people “in the trans community who’s low income has done sex work because it’s survival work,” Nell Gaither, the president of Dallas’s Trans Pride Initiative, said.
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Police announced there are similarities between Booker's and White’s killings and an April 13 stabbing that the victim - a black trans woman - survived.įor many black transgender women in this city, this attention from authorities and the larger community is coming far too late and after too high a human cost. None of these killings of black trans women have been solved, none of the killers caught.