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Semi-protected edit request on 13 March 2024[edit]
Please add Nex Benedict (Choctaw descendant) age 16, who died of injuries sustained from a fight in Owassa High School after enduring bullying for their gender fluidity, and Righteous "Chevy" Hill of Atlanta, GA, age 35, still pending investigation to 2024 deaths. 2601:603:381:BE40:B43E:402A:A0CB:3EF6 (talk) 20:04, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: Benedict's autopsy found their cause of death was suicide. Please provide a source for Righteous "Chevy" Hill. —Of the universe (say hello) 12:01, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'll have to agree with @Of the universe not to add Benedict to the list, but their not being mentioned at all on a page like this doesn't sit right with me. I'll add to the "see also" section with a link to List of suicides of LGBT people, where Benedict is listed, as well as some other names that have been proposed for this list. With Love from Cassie Schebel (talk) 19:51, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Why does the article mention the skin color of the black victims (but not of the assailants)?[edit]
This article is about people who were murdered because of being trans. Why does the skin color/ race matter? And why does it only matter when the victim was black but not the assailant? The murderer of Rea‘Lynn Thomas for example is also black. Jimmy Leshawn Williams, the murderer of black trans woman Ariyanna Mitchell, is black. And I am sure there are more. Why not just leave skin color/ race out? In my opinion it should be mentioned only if the murder was motivated by racism as well as transphobia. What hardly is the case when the killer and his victim are of the same race. 194.191.224.155 (talk) 11:02, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What makes the most sense to me is that race was one of the available descriptors for the victims, and was added just for the sake of having as much information as possible. This is not a list of people who have committed murders motivated by transphobia, it is a list of their victims, so it is only the victims who are thoroughly described. Nationality, ethnicity, and/or race are common descriptors in Wikipedia articles about people. Most biographies of living people say "a(n) [nationality] [occupation]" in the introduction, and sometimes "African American" is specified, which is preferable to "black" here, I think, so I'll change that now. With Love from Cassie Schebel (talk) 23:55, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]