2010
Victoria Carmen White, a 28-year-old transgender woman, was fatally shot at an apartment in Maplewood, New Jersey, on Sunday, 11 September. White went to the apartment with her killers, Alrashim Chambers and Marquise Foster, whom she had met earlier that night. Investigators believe that White's killers shot her upon learning that she was transgender and are considering hate crime charges. Many transgender advocates were confused and upset by the Essex County Prosecuter's Office's initial report that White was male, despite the fact that her documentation and genital configuration confirmed she was female.
Monchi de Jesús Crisóstomo de León was a sex worker who was murdered in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The suspected perpetrator, a 24 year-old client, explained that he killed her in a fight that started after he realized that “she wasn’t a woman”.
Read more about this topic: List Of Unlawfully Killed Transgender People