“Why you? Such a sweet person with a good heart.” I keep telling myself I’m going to be OK but deep down know Iâm not. Her cousin wrote on Facebook: “I miss you so much, my heart is broken. Tyianna Alexander’s friends and family took to social media to pay tribute to her. Tyianna Alexander was a ‘sweet person with a good heart’ Sally Brown, a public information officer for the Chicago Police Department, insisted that they did not want to “insult” Alexander, but would be using her sex assigned at birth in documents. The authorities in the city, who initially misgendered Alexander, said they don’t have a system for recording the gender of victims. In 2020, at least 44 trans or gender non-conforming people were murdered in the US, amid an epidemic of violence against the trans community, making it the worst year since the advocacy group started keeping track.Ĭhicago police told Gay City News that Alexander was one of two people shot in the incident, and that the gun was fired from a silver car. Tyianna Alexander, a 28-year-old Black trans woman, has been shot and killed in Chicago, as the wave of US trans murders continues into 2021.Īccording to Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Alexander was shot in the early hours of 6 January in Chicago, and her death is the first known violent killing of a trans person in the US this year.
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