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29-year-old Mia Green of Philadelphia is Most Recent Black Trans Woman Murdered in 2020
Philadelphia Trans Woman is 29th known victim of fatal transphobic violence in 2020 in the US
September 29, 2020 by Sue
Monday morning at 8 AM Philadelphia police pulled over a 2016 Jeep and discovered a 29-year-old Black trans woman shot in the front seat. She died later at a local hospital. Her name was Mia Green
The driver, Abdullah Ibn El-Amin Jaamia, was arrested and charged with murder.
Philadephia trans activist Deja Lynn Alvarez has words about this latest form of interpersonal violence targeting Black trans women
For all of the folks that see this I want to make sure that it is very clear this young lady was not murdered by someone who did not know her or by someone who did not know that she was transgender. She was murdered by someone that she had a long intimate relationship with which is more often than not the case! STOP BLAMING TRANS PEOPLE FOR THEIR OWN MURDERS!
Mia is the 28th trans person to die from transphobic violence in 2020. She’s the fourth trans woman whose murder has ties to Philadelphia. In April Johanna Metzger was murdered while in Baltimore. Rem’mie Fells was killed in June. And…
