[Guardian] A member of the US navy has been charged in connection with the death of a 25-year-old black transgender woman who was found dead in a hotel room in St Martin, Mississippi, on Saturday.Dee Whigham, a recently graduated registered nurse, is believed to have been stabbed to death at a Best Western hotel, but investigators were waiting for full autopsy results before ruling an official cause of death.
Dwanya Hickerson, 20, has been charged with capital murder in connection with Whigham's death.
Imagine Hickerson's shocking surprise.
"The violence that transgender women of color face is rooted in racism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia," Emily Waters, senior manager of National Research and Policy at NCAVP, told the Guardian. "We need to notice how these biases and violence are present in all of our everyday environments, and then work to change them."
Probably inappropriate to mention that this is a black-on-black murder.