Advocates from across the city’s LGBTQ community rallied downtown Wednesday to call attention to the deaths of two Black transgender Chicago women and the political efforts being mounted in some conservative states that activists say could lead to even more tragedy in gender non-conforming circles.
Such tragedy hit the Chatham neighborhood last month when Tatiana “Tee Tee” Whetstone, also known as Tatiana Labelle, was found beaten to death in a trashcan. It struck again a day later when trans activist Elise Malary was found dead of unknown causes along the Evanston lakefront.
