Tag: Lateisha (Teish) Green
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) Observes Transgender Day of Remembrance
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) marks the Transgender Day of Remembrance today by urging the public to reflect on all of the transgender people whose lives were ended by violence, simply for living as their authentic selves. The people we have lost include two young, African American transgender women, Islan Nettles, who was beaten to death in Harlem in August of 2013, and Lateisha (Teish) Green, who was shot in Syracuse in 2008.
GLAAD statement on guilty verdict in the killing of Lateisha Green
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) today responded to the verdict in the trial involving the killing of Lateisha (Teish) Green. Green, a 22-year-old African American transgender woman, was shot and killed on November 14, 2008 in Syracuse, N.Y. Friday a jury found 20-year old Dwight Delee guilty of manslaughter in the first degree as a hate crime.