#SayHerName Ashley Moore. Ashley Moore was a 26-year-old Black trans woman who was found dead on the streets in Newark, NJ in April 2020. She had strangled marks on her neck, but there was no police investigation.
You’ve probably never heard of her. https://t.co/Fv0vwCr0eD

— Nala Simone (@Nalasimonet) August 7, 2020

At least 26 transgender or gender-nonconforming people have been killed this year, as Blavity previously reported. Aja Raquell Rhone-Spears, a Black trans woman, became one of the latest victims when she was stabbed at a vigil in Portland in July.

In the same week as the killing of Rhone-Spears, another transgender woman, Dior H. Ova, was stabbed to death. A day later, 24-year-old Queasha D. Hardy was shot and killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Marilyn Cazares, another transgender woman, was found dead in an abandoned building in the Southern California suburb of Brawley on July 13.

"These victims were killed by acquaintances, partners or strangers, some of whom have been arrested and charged, while others have yet to be identified," the Human Rights Campaign stated on its website. "Some of these cases involve clear anti-transgender bias. In others, the victim’s transgender status may have put them at risk in other ways, such as forcing them into unemployment, poverty, homelessness and/or survival sex work."

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