Dhaka, June 22 (UNB) – The United States has expressed concern about violence facing transgender persons in various parts of the world saying they are taking steps with partners globally to reduce it. “Xulhaz was brutally murdered for being gay and for founding a magazine showing pride in that identity,” US Secretary of State John Kerry said while addressing an event at the Dean Acheson Auditorium in Washington on Tuesday. He termed Xulhaz Mannan, a local employee of USAID, as a “champion” of human rights who was hacked to death at his apartment in Dhaka in April this year. Kerry said they have to keep moving forward, and that is why they are engaged at every level of leadership through their embassies, with their global partners – in a concerted diplomatic effort to push back against bigotry, against violence in all of its forms, according to US Department of State.
