Last Friday, the killing of 21-year-old Black trans influencer Girlalala in Florida became another devastating reminder of how vulnerable trans women remain in moments when systems should protect them. According to NBC News, officers found her with multiple gunshot wounds in a car outside a suburban Fort Lauderdale home after an argument with her 25-year-old boyfriend, Shanoyd Whyte Jr., turned violent. The couple of three years had been engaged in a verbal dispute that quickly escalated inside the vehicle, before she was shot while still seated. Arrest records show that Whyte called 911 and was taken into custody when authorities arrived.

Girlalala’s death is not an isolated tragedy but part of a broader pattern—one shaped by intimate partner violence, rising anti-trans hostility and lon

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