Tasiyah “Siyah” Woodland, an 18-year-old Black trans woman, was shot and killed in Mechanicsville, MD on Friday. She is at least the eighth trans person killed in the U.S. this year, according to the tracking of the blog Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents.
“For the years that god gave us her, she was a joy and made sure everyone she was around knew that they were loved.”Tasiyah “Siyah” Woodland, an 18-year-old Black trans woman, was shot and killed in Mechanicsville, Maryland on Friday. She is at least the eighth trans person killed in the U.S.
“She loved to have a good time, smile and laugh and spend time with her family,” the GoFundMe reads. “She was never too far when you needed her.” Woodland’s aunt added that the teen started transitioning after she and her three siblings lost their mom. “She got the courage to start living in her truth and started her transition, which her family accepted with open arms,” the GoFundMe reads. “For the years that god gave us her, she was a joy and made sure everyone she was around knew that they were loved.”
According to PGH Lesbians, Woodland studied at the College of Southern Maryland, and her social media was filled with “pop culture images, a lot of food and recipes, attractive shoes, and images of what she aspired for her home.” “She was a very real typical teenager who had a job that she described as boring, but still she went,” the blog reads. “She had hopes, ambitions, dreams. She celebrated her accomplishments and triumphs. All things she deserved, things ripped away from her by gun violence and the transphobia and misogynoir that permeates our society.”
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