Forty-four transgender or gender non-conforming people were fatally shot or killed in the US in 2020. Six of those people were killed in Puerto Rico alone. This January, the island's governor Pedro Pierluisi declared a state of emergency and signed an executive order to address the killings. Today we are talking to activists in Puerto Rico and a journalist who has covered the gruesome crimes.
In this episode:
Pedro Julio Serrano (@PedroJulio)), founder of Puerto Rico Para Tod@s); Ivana Fred Millán, activist; David Cordero Mercado (@David_cmercado)), investigative journalist
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