At Friday night’s historic LGBTQ Forum , candidates were asked to give opening statements by way of answering a simple, common question: what can voters expect from them in the first 100 days of office, if elected. Elizabeth Warren, who came up to the stage shortly after it was announced that the forum was trending in the top five topics worldwide on Twitter, told the audience that she would rather show than tell. In a moving tribute, her hands shaking at some points, Warren began to read off the 18 names of the Black trans women that have been reported murdered this year. Last week Ja’leyah-Jamar became the 19th known transgender person killed this year in America, and the 18th Black transgender woman. She is the second Black transgender person to be killed in Kansas City in 2019; Brooklyn Lindsey , 32, was killed across state lines in Missouri this June. Warren included the names of Michelle Tamika Washington, 40, who was fatally shot in Philadelphia. Paris Cameron , Chanel Scurlock , Chynal Lindsey , Ashanti Carmon, and Zoe Spears (the latter two killed in the same Maryland neighborhood). “18 trans women of color who have been killed so […]

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