In 2020 there were 44 transgender murders in the USA and it was the country’s deadliest year on record. Nowhere has the crisis been more pronounced than in Puerto Rico, where 12 transgender victims, most of them women, were killed in a two-year span. The violence comes amid a shifting national debate on transgender rights and moves by the territory to deal with its long history of brutality against women. Puerto Rico’s transgender community and its allies blame the killings on a mix of religious fundamentalism, transphobia, indifference from authorities and lingering economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and Hurricane Maria. San Juan’s former mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz Soto said “The transgender community is the most discriminated within the LGBTQ+ community, and Puerto Rico is no exception.” Transgender killings in the USA are on rapid pace to exceed last year’s record violence. So far 20 murders through April 30. President Joe Biden has taken steps to ensure federal protections for transgender rights and reassure the LGBTQ community that he is on their side including a direct call out during the joint session of Congress.
(VIDEO) US hits new record for transgender killings. Puerto Rico is the epicenter of the violence.
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