By Sunita Sohrabji. Ethnic Media Services.
A school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, in which the suspect was identified as transgender, has created a wave of fear in the transgender community, who feel vulnerable to attack. March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility.
Physical violence and verbal abuse are the norm for many transgender youth. This week, when news broke that 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who killed six people, including three 9-year-old students at Covenant High School in Nashville, Tennessee, was transgender, the LGBTQIA community began to fear for itself.
Susan Maasch, director of the Trans Youth Equality Foundation in Portland, Maine, told EMS: