the-movemnt: Cleveland trans woman Skye Mockabee was found dead in a parking lot. #SayHerName A blac
the-movemnt:Cleveland trans woman Skye Mockabee was found dead in a parking lot. #SayHerNameA black transgender woman named Skye Mockabee was found dead in a parking lot in Cleveland on Saturday morning, Cleveland.com reports. The owner of Ecclesiastic Granite Fab found Mockabee, 26, dead around 8 a.m. in his business’s parking lot. She was lying face down next to a tow truck and bleeding from the mouth, according to police report. Mockabee was pronounced dead about a half hour later. Police and the Cuyahoga County medical examiner’s office misgendered Mockabee, identifying her with her gender assigned at birth.According to a statement from the New York City Anti-Violence Project, Mockabee is the third transgender woman killed in July 2016 and the 16th transgender or gender nonconforming person to be killed so far in 2016. Her death shortly follows that of of Washington, D.C.’s Deeniquia Dodds and Mississippi's Dee Wingham. -- source link
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