This Is Not A Good Month For Us.

Sadly the numbers of murders of trans women increased dramatically. Down in Puerto Rico three trans women have been murdered and two of the women’s bodies were horribly mutilated.

Another transgender woman killed in Puerto Rico — the third in 8 days
Bakersfield.com
By Muri Assunção New York Daily News
April 28, 2020

The transgender and gender non-conforming community in Puerto Rico is mourning the death of another murder victim — the third in just over one week.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, 31-year-old Penélope Díaz Ramírez was killed April 13 at the Bayamon correctional complex. Her death, which was reported Monday, took place just eight days after two other women were found dead inside a charred Hyundai Elantra on April 21 in the city of Humacao.

“Never in my career have I seen so many reports of deaths of our transgender and gender non-conforming community in such a short time in one location,” Tori Cooper, HRC director of community engagement for the transgender justice initiative, said in a statement.

Five of the nine U.S. murders of transgender and gender non-conforming people in 2020 have occurred in Puerto Rico, which to local LGBTQ activist Pedro Julio Serrano, constitutes “without a doubt an epidemic” of anti-LGBTQ violence.

What is going on down there?

Is it a group of people who are attacking us?

Is it an individual who is doing all the murders?

Or are they just random killings?

Time reported that,

The killings come a month after a 19-year-old transsexual man was fatally shot in the western town of Moca and two months after the fatal shooting of Alexa Negrón Luciano, which Puerto Rico’s governor said was likely a hate crime. The victim’s body was found in the northern town of Toa Baja after a video was made public in which at least two men are heard mocking and threatening a person believed to be the victim followed by gunfire.
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Overall, eight people from the LGBTQ community have been killed in Puerto Rico in the past 15 months, Serrano said. None of the cases have been solved.