A ballroom legend, an ‘auntie’ and a young athlete: Here are some of the trans people lost to violence and suicide this year

By Zoe Sottile, Elizabeth Wolfe, Andy Rose, Amanda Jackson, Sydney Bishop, Taylor Galgano, Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — 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