A ballroom legend, an aspiring model and a student athlete: These are some of the trans people lost to violence and suicide in the past year

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On a cool November night in 1999, dozens of transgender people and their friends stood thousands of miles apart in Boston and San Francisco. They lit slender candles and spoke into the surrounding darkness the names of trans people whose lives had abruptly – and violently – ended.

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