Alphonso David (born 1970) is an American attorney and LGBT civil rights leader. In August 2019, he became the president of the Human Rights Campaign. He is the first civil rights lawyer and first person of color to serve as president of the organization.
HRC Report on Trans Deaths: We Must Dismantle Stigma
The Advocate, given that many trans victims are misgendered by police and media in their cities, or their deaths not reported at all.“This year, we reached two grim milestones — the Human Rights Campaign has recorded the most deaths of transgender and gender non-conforming people of any year since we began tracking this violence, and we have documented more than 200 total deaths.
Every life that we have lost this year and every year had value and did not deserve to be cut short,” HRC President Alphonso David said in a press release announcing the report. “Divisive and dehumanizing rhetoric from anti-equality political leaders has contributed to the toxic mix of racism, sexism and transphobia that drives this horrific violence.
