A black transgender man was fatally shot Wednesday by a police officer in Tallahassee, Florida — at least the third reported officer-involved shooting in Tallahassee in two months. - NBCOUT
Though police and several local news reports referred to McDade as a"female," McDade used he/him pronouns on Facebook, and local advocacy groups said he identified as a transgender man.
Equality Florida, a statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization, said McDade's death further exemplifies that Florida isAt least seven black transgender people were murdered in Florida over the last two years, according to the organization. Following McDade's death, the National Black Justice Coalition said the"tragic incident should be a reminder that hate crimes against Black LGBTQ" people happen"too frequently" and"often without the national public outcry that our cis and/or heteronormative brothers and sisters receive."
"It is important to highlight the too often ignored violence that members of our community face in addition to the discrimination we may experience because we are Black," the coalition said in aAt least 11 transgender or gender-nonconforming people have been fatally shot or killed by other means this year so far, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBTQ advocacy group.
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