At least 41 transgender or gender non-conforming people were killed in the U.S. this year, the majority of whom were Black and Latinx trans women or trans feminine people.

Here’s a summary of a 13-step plan by journalist and trans activist Raquel Willis’ from her conversations with leading figures working daily to end this epidemic against trans women of color:

1. Prioritizing Safety and Security: Organizations and politicians who label themselves as allies should be aware of the severe circumstances faced by TWOC, and work towards ending the violence.

2. Defining Violence: In addition to domestic and intimate partner violence, violence by the state (such as in prisons and detention centers) needs to be equally recognized and held accountable.

3. Media Competency: Ensuring accurate reports on identities and circumstances surrounding anti-trans violence, and holding media accountable for biased and essentialist notions.

4. Accountability: Developing restorative, rehabilitative, and healing justice modalities beyond the incarceral system while holding perpetrators of violence accountable.

5. Political Education: Developing a “community curriculum” explaining the origins of the oppression of TWOC, how it’s enacted, and how to end it together.

6. Economic Empowerment: Expanding employment opportunities for TWOC, especially towards those with low-income.

7. Leadership Development: Investing and donating to TWOC-led organizations, and supporting and elevating voices from the community.

8. Leadership Accountability: Demanding that all leaders make space for TWOC during debates, presidential forums, fundraising events and beyond.

9. Reallocating Resources: Demanding transparency from LGBTQ+ initiatives on how their funds and resources impact the community, and having them rework their programming to aid the most marginalized groups in the community.

10. Centering Vitality: Demanding accessible healthcare for all, especially for those living with HIV, AIDS, and/or disabilities.

11. Decarceration: Elevating LGBTQ+ political platforms that center abolishing the prison, military and immigration industrial complexes.

12. Decriminalization: Recognizing sex work as valid labor, understanding the economic circumstances that may surround it, and supporting its decriminalization.

13. Reclaiming Our Honor: Willis brings to light the importance of preserving, celebrating, and uplifting trans legacies, and resisting historical trends of trans erasure.

Read the steps in detail: https://www.out.com/print/2019/11/20/how-we-can-end-violence-against-trans-women-color