NOT AGAIN!!! ANOTHER TRANSWOMAN HAS BEEN MURDERED!

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UGH…….ANOTHER TRANS WOMAN HAS BEEN MURDERED!

Another Trans Woman has been murdered! DAMN! The details are below via Advocate.com and Transgriot!

In a dark end to the month of June, a fourth trans woman of color has been found murdered in the U.S. — this time shot to death.

Last Thursday, Tiffany Edwards — a 28-year-old transgender woman of color — was found shot to death in Walnut Hills, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. Edwards’ death marks the fourth trans woman of color murdered this month, and the fourth trans woman murdered in Ohio since January 2013.

Accordingto Monica Roberts at TransGriot, Cincinnati Police are in search of Quamar Edwards, a suspect in Tiffany Edwards’ murder. The suspect is 5’10”, weighs 250 pounds, and has a last known address on the 1000 Block of Winfield Ave. in Cincinnati.

As is often the case, reporting of Edwards’ murder featured a number of media missteps. Cincinnati's WKRC referred to Edwards by her former name, and called her “he.” In only a slight improvement, the outlet's website has since removed all pronouns, leaving awkward sentences that begin, “The person found dead…,” while the video retains the misgendering.

Earlier this month, Zoraida Reyes of California, Kandy Hall of Maryland, and Yaz’min Shancez of Florida were all found dead. In every case except Reyes’s, which has been listed as “suspicious,” local police have ruled these deaths homicides.

Trans women recently killed in Ohio include Cemia Dove, Betty Skinner, and Nicole Kidd-Stergis. Dove’s murderer was convicted last November and sentenced to life in prison, a suspect has been charged in the death of Kidd-Stergis, and at the moment, Skinner’s killer remains at-large.

After Dove’s death last year, Cleveland’s Plain Dealer covered her death in a way described by GLAAD as “horrific,” repeatedly referring to Dove as a man, printing in unrelated details about a past arrest record, and making references to her being “oddly dressed.”

The problem of botched reporting of trans subjects is so prevalent that GLAAD has issued both a general Transgender Media Reference Guide, as well as a guide specific to covering victims of physical assault.

THERE HAS BEEN AN UPDATE

A suspect in the shooting murder of 28-year-old transgender woman Tiffany Edwards has turned himself in after police issued a warrant for his arrest on Saturday.

Quamar Edwards — who is not related to the victim — turned himself in earlier today in connection with the June 26 murder of Tiffany Edwards, whose body was found shot to death in the Cincinnati suburb of Walnut Hills, Ohio. Tiffany Edwards was the fourth transgender woman found murdered in Ohio since January 2013, and the fourth trans woman of color murdered in the U.S. during the month of June.

WLWT reports that, according to Quamar Edwards' uncle, he provided the victim with a ride, but "lost his cool" when she "came onto him."

Legally speaking, this type of defense is often referred to as "trans panic" or "gay panic," in which someone's own internalized sense of transphobia or homophobia drives them to commit a violent crime. This defense has been defeated time and time again, has been discouraged by the American Bar Association, while lawmakers in California are working to ban the defense altogether.

WE MUST END THE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY!