A Black trans teen was shot and killed in Florida. Almost no one reported it

If a Black transgender teenager gets shot and killed in Florida and no one reports it, what does that say about the value of their life? It’s a question trans activists are struggling with after the scant attention paid to the killing of Jayla McGee, a 19-year-old whose death has been barely acknowledged by the media or authorities.McGee's relatives announced her death on social media after she died on July 5. Posts promoting a candlelight vigil held July 18 identified her as Jayla and Baby Jay, while others used her apparent assigned name. In various posts, her mother, Jameka McGee, referred to McGee while also sharing graphics bearing the name Jayla. According to social media reports, McGee died from gun violence in Belle Glade, Florida, where she was born and raised.The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office confirmed responding to a shooting at 5:28 p.m. on Southwest Avenue B.“Upon arrival, deputies located an adult male deceased from gunshot wound(s),” a spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office told The Advocate, which misgendered and deadnamed her. “Detectives are investigating this shooting as a homicide. No motive or suspect information is known at this time.”But a mysterious fatal shooting, with the killer potentially still at large, has garnered no media attention in the Palm Beach market.That’s despite South Florida being a major media market. The shooting occurred less than an hour from West Palm Beach and roughly the same distance from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, in a lower-income inland community near one of the wealthiest coastal regions in the nation.The death did earn notice from Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, which chronicles the violent deaths of transgender people, particularly transgender people of color. The site notes that McGee was the 15th reported transgender person of color killed in the United States this year.“I’m a little shocked that we cannot find any information, any acknowledgment that this young person w