(Editor's note: This commentary was originally published on HuffPost Gay Voices, a content-sharing partner of SDGLN.)

I recently attended the standing-room-only funeral for Deoni Jones. She was 23 years old, fatally stabbed while waiting at a bus stop in Washington, D.C. Police say they have no evidence that this particular stabbing was related to her gender identity. Regardless, she was one of too many transgender women violently killed.