Her name was India Clarke and she was only 25 years old. She was found in a park beaten to death the morning of July 21, 2015.
The Guardian
The death of the young woman, India Clarke, who was described by family as a “very loving person”, is the 10th transgender homicide in the US this year, according to the National Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), and is being seen as more evidence of what many are calling an “epidemic of violence”.
Officials are asking the public for leads in the case but they will not consider her transgender for reasons I cannot begin to understand:
Initial reports have stated that Clarke was a “man in a dress” and the Hillsborough county spokesman Larry McKinnon said officials will not be categorizing Clarke as transgender.
“We are not going to categorize him as a transgender. We can just tell you he had women’s clothing on at the time,” McKinnon told BuzzFeed News. “What his lifestyle was prior to that we don’t know – whether he was a cross-dresser, we don’t know.”
That last paragraph "we don't know" makes no sense to me. India Clarke had been using that name and dressing as a female for the past two years so how can he not know?.
If you read the rest of the article it states that "misgendering" could actually be harmful to the case and increases the chance of the case going cold. I really don't think that would bother McKinnon too much.
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