The grieving sister of Riah Milton, a 25-year-old Black, transgender woman killed in Ohio earlier this month, is speaking out against the deadnaming of her sibling.
Ariel Mary Ann said police identified her sister as Khalic Rova-Shaquille Milton, which is the name on her driver’s license.
Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells, a Black transgender woman in Philadelphia, was also killed in the same week as Riah, The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) reported.
"In 2019, advocates tracked at least 27 deaths of at least transgender or gender non-conforming people in the U.S. due to fatal violence, the majority of whom were Black transgender women," the organization stated.
"Riah Milton, who is transgender, has already been misgendered and dead named by local law officials and media outlets," the petition stated.
