LOS ANGELES _ The murder of nearly two dozen transgender people in the U.S. this year got rare attention from the Democratic presidential candidates when a moderator asked in Thursday's debate what they would do to stop the violence.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told moderator Yamiche Alcindor that he would provide moral leadership from the White House, along with wider access to healthcare regardless of sexual orientation.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren promised to "lift up their voices."
"I will go to the Rose Garden once every year to read the names of transgender women, people of color who have been killed in the past year...so that as a nation we are forced to address the particular vulnerability on homelessness."
Warren also vowed to change prison rules that separate inmates based on their birth sex identification rather than their current one.
