While everyone is busy singing We Shall Overcome at the top of their lungs over the death of Trayvon Martin, one thing that has been on the rise lately and has been slightly overlooked by the mainstream media is the rise in trans murders.
Sadly, Brandy Martell was shot to death a block away from Oakland's City Hall. While many aren't saying it, Brandy's friends believe her death was a hate crime.
37-year-old Brandy Martell was sitting behind the wheel of her car around 5:15 a.m. Sunday when one or two men walked up and began a conversation. A witness told ABC7 the conversation was cordial, but then a few minutes later, one of the men became angry and fired into the car right where Martell was sitting.
Until late last year, Martell worked as an outreach worker at the Tri-City Health Center in Fremont which serves the transgender and transsexual community. "When you don't provide a space in society for people who you think are the other or different, especially transgender women, especially transgender women of color, when you don't provide spaces for them to be in a safe environment or a safe space, whether it's socializing or services, this is what happens," Martell's friend Tiffany Woods told ABC 7
Hopefully justice will get served very soon because trans women getting killed for bravely being who they are seriously needs to stop.
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