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Correction: Three Young Trans Folx Were Murdered in Western Pennsylvania This Past Week
Earlier this week, we reported on the tragic shooting death of 22-year-old Jasmine Cannady and younger brother, Jeffrey ‘JJ’ Bright, in Ambridge, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. At that time, we noted that JJ identified as a trans male teen, having begun his transition at age 12. He was 16 at the time of his death.
Since then, we have been able to confirm that Jasmine was also part of the trans community. Jazzy, as her friends refer to her, identified as nonbinary and used both she/her and they/them pronouns. While trying to confirm this information, I opted use to gender neutral terms to describe Jasmine to avoid disrespecting her identity in my original posts.
The term “transgender” covers many different gender identities, such as non-binary, gender fluid, agender, genderqueer, trans man, trans woman, or simply just trans.
So we are using transgender or trans as an umbrella term for the purposes of putting three homicides into context, but also emphasizing that Jasmine specifically identied as nonbinary. We don’t know if Chyna or JJ identified as nonbinary.
Non-binary (also spelled nonbinary) or genderqueer is a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine-identities that are outside the…
