And two transgender women have been murdered this month. In Buffalo, New York, 35-year-old Tonya Harvey was fatally shot on February 6. Only two days earlier, 36-year-old Celine Walker was shot to death in Jacksonville, Florida. They are the third and fourth transgender women murdered so far this year. Other victims include transgender rights activist and founder of the Miss Trans America pageant, Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien, who was stabbed and beaten to death inside her home in North Adams, Massachusetts, on January 5.
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