In October 2015, Black transgender woman Ju’Zema Goldring was arrested for jaywalking by Atlanta cops who also falsified cocaine charges against her by cutting up a stress ball and calling the insides cocaine even though they tested negative for it. Goldring was awarded $1.5 million in her lawsuit against the city.
On Wednesday, a Dallas jury found Ruben Alvarado guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of 26-year-old Black trans woman Chynal Lindsey, and on Thursday, they sentenced him to 37 years in prison.
Monday marked the start of the murder trial for Ruben Alvarado, who is charged in the killing of 26-year-old Chynal Lindsey, a Black trans woman whose body was pulled out of White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas, on June 1, 2019.
Deadly attacks against Black trans women have reached crisis levels after Cameron Breon's killing pushed this year's violent death toll higher for the LGBTQ community.
Denali Berries Stuckey brings the death count for Black trans women in 2019 to 12.
CeCe Telfer’s Division II women’s 400-meter hurdles title at the NCAA Women’s Track and Field Championships was being delegitimized by bigoted transphobic haters who are mad that she transitioned from a man.
