Biden marks 'deadliest year on record for transgender Americans' on day of remembrance
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By Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden marked Transgender Day of Remembrance in a statement Saturday, paying tribute to “those we lost in the deadliest year on record for transgender Americans.” In a statement shared with CNN, Biden also remembered “the countless other transgender people — dispropo…
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By Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden marked Transgender Day of Remembrance in a statement Saturday, paying tribute to “those we lost in the deadliest year on record for transgender Americans.” In a statement shared with CNN, Biden also remembered “the countless other transgender people — dispropo…
President Biden mourned the loss of transgender Americans and called on state leaders and lawmakers to push back against the “disturbing proliferation of discriminatory state legislation targeting transgender people."
At least 47 transgender or gender non-conforming Americans have been fatally shot or died by violent means in 2021, marking the deadliest year on record.