They were holding up a transgender pride flag with the words "we are dying" written on it.
WASHINGTON – Protesterrs briefly interrupted Pete Buttigieg’s opening answer during a CNN LGBTQ town hall on Thursday, raising banners and calling attention to violence against transgender women of color.
“And I believe or would like to believe that everybody here is committed to ending that epidemic, and that does include lifting up its visibility and speaking to it,” he continued. According to the Human Rights Campaign's website, advocates tracked in 2018 at least 26 deaths of transgender people in the U.S. due to fatal violence, the majority of whom were black transgender women. In 2019, at least 19 transgender people have been fatally shot or killed by other violent means, and many them were women of color.
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