December 2011
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Being Transgender in Maryland →
This segment originally aired on March 11, 2011.
As we remember Marylanders we lost this year, we want to include someone who wasn’t well-known to the general public until after her death. Tyra Trent, a 25-year-old transgender woman, was found murdered in February in a vacant house in northwest Baltimore. Her death is one of many acts of violence committed against members of the...
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Story to Watch: Kansas City Transgender Woman... →
Dee Dee Pearson, a transgender woman living in Kansas City, Missouri, was murdered this holiday weekend. The transgender community in Kansas City is mourning this tragic loss, and friends and neighbors have already begun leaving tokens of love and support outside of Dee Dee’s home where she was shot Saturday night. GLAAD has reached out to several local stations and newspapers regarding...
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The Murder of Dee Dee Pearson: The Kansas City... →
Kansas City, MO – In the late hours of December 24th, 2011, Dee Dee Pearson, a 31 year old transgender woman, was murdered in Kansas City, MO. The murder took place in the 1000 block of East 43rd Street. The Kansas City, MO Police Department arrested 26 year old Kenyan L. Jones shortly after law enforcement arrived at the scene.
Dee Dee was a friend to many people in the community – KCAVP...
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Breast implants 'save lives': advocacy group →
Transgender people in Sweden who are denied breast implants are more likely to commit suicide, according to an advocacy group which has urged health authorities to draw up national guidelines on the procedure.
“Breast implants for transgender women are in many cases an very important measure for them to function with their new identity and allow them to fit in as women in everyday...
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Transgender Roller Derby Jammer Skates Her Way To... →
Photographs by James Calder
When Kayley Whalen signed up for roller derby in May 2008, she lied about who she was.
“I was required to sign a code of conduct that stated, ‘transsexual women are allowed to join if it has been at least two years since surgery, per International Olympic Committee rules’,” she writes in a recent article for FiveOnFive, a roller derby magazine.
Whalen, who...
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Xtra Xtra: Read All About It! →
odofemi:
Check out my latest article on PrettyQueer.com!
“Babe can you call me the editor of Xtra is using my boy name on his FaceBook in referring to the story I did.” I saw this in my FaceBook messages. It had been a particularly frustrating day – a hard day at work on top of having just been dumped by the girl I was seeing, and then again by the boy I had my eyes on – and I just couldn’t...
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Blaine Man Sentenced for Murder of Transgender... →
[Linked article uses the incorrect name. The victim’s name is Chrissie Bates.]
A Blaine man was sentenced to 367 months in prison for a murder in Minneapolis last January.
Forty-year-old Arnold Waukazo was convicted of killing a transgender woman named [Chrissie] Bates inside a Linden Avenue apartment.
Police say they were called when an apartment building caretaker found Bates at...
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Trans Woman Fights Back Against Street Harasser
Many trans women are targeted by street harassers multiple times a day. It often happen while simple minding one’s own business when walking down the street, buying groceries, taking public transportation, or basically anywhere and at anytime a trans woman is out in public she can be vulnerable to verbal abuse and possible physical assualt.
One trans woman who was harassed as she and her...
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Yearning for better and more conscious trans...
transcreature:
I get so frustrated looking for trans women resources that I find respectable. If I had the time I would love to start a tumblr (with an attached website to make it easier to go through the history by categories) that linked to all of the fabulous free resources and advice that trans women are making out there on tumblr and youtube and various sites.
I would like it to be
Sex...
[TW: violence against a trans woman] Dee Dee...
whencylonsdream:
lucypaw:
[News reports on the murders of trans women are transmisogynist as they are rife with misgendering, using the wrong name, and stating the killers’ claims of what happened as if they were fact. I have rewritten the news report of the Christmas Eve death of a Kansas City trans woman, found here, to correct these biases.]
Late on Christmas Eve night, the body of Dee...
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How ABC Can Salvage Work It →
It is clear from reading public comments attached to various articles and blogs on ABC’s upcoming new show Work It, which revolves around two masculine men forced by economic circumstances to seek work as women, that the general public does not comprehend why the transgender community is upset about it (also here, here, and here). (I expect similar comments to be attached to this...
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Bullshit that some Tumblr feminists do.
friendlyangryfeminist:
Isn’t it bullshit for feminists to brush off historical concerns about feminism by spouting theory instead of practice?
Here’s how it seems to work on Tumblr:
Someone (who historically has been alienated by feminism) will talk about their totally valid concerns of anti-trans* feminism, racist feminism, classist feminism or Western-centric feminism and...
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“Misogyny is a systematic and institutionalized form of bigotry and oppression...”
– My response to a man asking “can’t we all just be friends?” and “isn’t misandry just as bad as misogyny?” (via sixtyforty)
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Were Police Negligent In Burning, Dismemberment Of... →
Police have charged Detroit man Qasim Raqib with the murder and mutilation of 19-year-old Detroit trans woman Shelley Hilliard, alleging he burned and dismembered her body to the point where she was identifiable only by the cherry tattoo on her upper right arm.
Many LGBT bloggers figured transphobia was the motivation behind the grisly murder, but that appears not to be the case, at least...
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Furr Update: MPD officer accused of shooting at... →
The U.S. government’s case against Kenneth Furr, the Metropolitan Police Department officer who allegedly shot at a group of five people in a car, including at least two transgender women, in the city’s Sursum Corda neighborhood in August, was delayed further Dec. 19 when both Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Worm and Furr’s defense lawyer, Harold Martin, asked Judge Ann...
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Revisiting Violence: Attacks prompt activists to... →
At year’s end, the local LGBT community is recovering from a year of violent attacks directed at LGBT individuals, particularly transgender women of color.
Beginning with the July 20 murder of 23-year-old transgender woman Lashai Mclean in the District’s East Corner, the violent attacks – some robberies, some assaults – continued throughout the summer.
Two days after...
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Work It: ABC's New Low →
ABC’s new sitcom Work It will premiere Jan. 3 amidst growing outrage from the transgender community over the premise of the series, which portrays two unemployed men who dress as women to find a job. The series has already infuriated the trans community with a promotional ad depicting the two men dressed as women standing at a urinal, ostensibly urinating in a men’s restroom....
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Laguna officers arrest transgender woman on... →
This is a really upsetting article. The woman who was arrested is misgendered, referred to as a “man who identifies as a woman.”
Trans women are systematically discriminated against in employment. This is particularly true for trans women of color. Nineteen percent of trans women have experience in the underground economy, with 15% of trans women having experienced sex work and eight...
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Trans woman files complaint against NWT politician →
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association says a trans woman was blatantly discriminated against when the Northwest Territories’ finance minister allegedly asked her to leave her Fort Smith college campus Dec 9. Gabrielle Landrie, who is a math and business student at Aurora College, told the CBC that Michael Miltenberger asked her to leave when she was standing near a computer lab with a...
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Transgender Woman Stabbed →
A 56-year-old transgender woman was stabbed while at a house in Northeast D.C.’s Kingman Park neighborhood at around 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, marking the city’s 12th assault against a transgender woman where a knife or gun was used since July.
The stabbing occurred in the 1500 block of Gales Street NE. According to the police incident report, the transgender woman was in the ...
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ABC's Work It Unnecessarily Injurious to... →
Ask many transgender advocates and allies and they’ll tell you that ABC’s new sitcom Work It just doesn’t work. Next month, ABC plans to premiere the show, which features two men who dress as women in order to gain employment. And while the characters in the show are not presented as transgender but rather as “unrepentant guy’s guys” in dresses who very...
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Girl Scout Troops in Trans Panic Mode? →
projectqueer:
By Diane Anderson-Minshall
After a Denver Girl Scout troop decided to allow a 7-year-old transgender child into the troop — reiterating that Girl Scouting was about empowerment and inclusion — a representative from Colorado’s statewide organization, Rachelle Trujillo, told The Christian Post that “if parents brought a child to a meeting, and the child is recognized ...
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Open Letter to our friends @awkwardblkgrl
crunkfeministcollective:
Dear Awkward Black Girl, We love the show! We also love your continuous engagement with fans and your commitment to staying on the Web to maintain your vision. What we don’t love is the transmisogyny and misogyny in episode 11. In episode 11, CeCe calls Angelina Jolie/White Jay’s ex a “tra**y bitch in heels.” The word tra**y perpetuates violence and divisiveness...
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"Work It!" Is Hardly Working →
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So when I saw the first preview for Work It a few months ago, my knee-jerk reaction didn’t have anything to do with my radical socialist lesbian feminist rage, but that still-unidentified piece of me that just doesn’t get the joke. [I’ve also read pieces of the scripts for the first four episodes, with similar results.] It’s not out of political correctness...
The Trans Women's Anti-Violence Project: Cissexism... →
christopherhart22:
transfeminism:
If an institution, program, agency, event, space, or whathaveyou has a mission to serve the needs of women and applies it’s policies regarding excluding men from services to all men, including those who are trans, the policies are neither cissexist nor anti-trans. However, if those policies with…
OMG! Love this. I would also add that it would be both...
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I don't get how cis feminists like Greer can...
kiriamaya:
Facing misogyny has been rough on me. I’ve been assumed to be stupid because I was a woman; I’ve been dismissed as subhuman because I was a woman; I’ve been stalked; I’ve been catcalled; I’ve been called every misogynist slur in the book; I’ve had my needs dismissed as “hysterics”; I’ve been reduced to my looks and to my body parts; I’ve been driven to tears by men I loved because...
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Cissexism and Women's Services
If an institution, program, agency, event, space, or whathaveyou has a mission to serve the needs of women and applies its policies regarding excluding men from services to all men, including those who are trans, the policies are neither cissexist nor anti-trans. However, if those policies with regards to excluding men are applied to women who are trans then those policies are both cissexist and...
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You're Fired: Work It Doesn't Work →
After watching the pilot of ABC’s soon-to-air sitcom Work It, I think the first thing they should do is re-title this piece of crap. A better title, with all due deference to another very gay-friendly ABC franchise, may be Desperate Network.
The fact that the production companies behind this show, Bonanza Productions and Summer School Productions, are best known for The Vampire Diaries...
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What the Hell was ABC Thinking When it Greenlit... →
Quick: Name the most LGBT-friendly TV network.
ABC, right? Easy question, easy answer. ABC has given us loving lesbian and gay families in Callie and Arizona on Grey’s Anatomy and Cam and Mitchell on Modern Family. It has given us hilarious, well-rounded gay men on Happy Endings and Desperate Housewives. It has given us complicated recurring lesbian characters on Private Practice. And it...
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SWOP NYC || How to be an ally to sex workers, on... →
suzy-x:
December 17th is the International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers. It is a day of mourning, but it’s also a moment for allies and friends to show their support for individuals in the sex trade. If you’ve never been involved with December 17th before, or are considering how you might be an ally to sex workers year round, here’s a list of three ways to be an ally on this very...
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Transgender immigrant finds new life, protection... →
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Valerie Villalta, now 30, found that new life as a transgender woman, and in the process, won a kind of protection she didn’t even know was possible for people like her: asylum.
Asylum, which allows an immigrant to live and work in the country legally, is more commonly associated with immigrants who have been persecuted in their home countries — or might be in the future — because...
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U.N. calls for protecting gay rights worldwide →
Homosexuals and transgender people in all regions face discrimination and violence, including killings, rape and torture because of their orientation, and risk the death penalty in at least five countries, the United Nations said on Thursday.
In the first official U.N. report on the issue, it called on governments to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, prosecute all...
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Transgender Taser victim fighting potential... →
A California transgender woman seen in a recent video being Tasered by police wants potential charges against her dropped.
Brooke Fantelli, owner of Fantelli Racing Products, claims that police Tased her in the stomach and genitalia after discovering that she is transgender.
The incident occurred Oct. 22, according to Fantelli’s attorney, Dana Douglas.
Douglas said that Fantelli went...
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Detroit Police arrest suspect in Shelly Moore... →
Qasim Raqib has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder and mutilation in the death of Shelly “Treasure” Moore. A preliminary examination will take place on Dec. 22 at 1:30 p.m. at 36th District Court. Lyniece Nelson, Moore’s mother, has asked that friends, family and the LGBT community pack the courtroom.
Detroit Police confirmed Friday, that an arrest has been...
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Memorial Planned for Transgender Woman Killed in... →
Family, friends and transgender rights advocates are organizing a memorial for a 32-year-old transgender woman who was killed on Nov. 17 in Hollywood.
The memorial for [Cassidy] Vickers … will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Lexington Avenue and Gower Street, the location where she was pronounced dead.
Detectives believe Vickers was standing in the area when a gunman walked up to the...
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Fox News Host Smiles Vapidly While Guests Trash... →
On Fox New this Sunday, anchor Shannon Bream invited ex-Macy’s salesperson Natalie Johnson to explain why she wouldn’[t] let a transgender woman use the ladies dressing room at the national retailer.
In the segment, Johnson reiterates her position that, because of her religious beliefs, she just couldn’t stand by and let this person try on an outfit—despite the fact that Macy’s policy clearly...
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End Violence Against Sex Workers
audaciaray:
Info about the NYC event here. Info about events around the US and internationally here.
I’m contemplating my speech for Saturday, so I went back and read the speeches I gave the last three years.
2010:
Violence is being called a whore by an intimate partner who is ashamed of what you do. Violence is when the media ungenders you and uses your birth name because you are a woman...
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On Violence Against (Trans) Women →
Trans women are disproportionately impacted by murder and violence, and yet there is a serious gap in anti-violence and anti-oppression organizing when it comes to people who live at the intersection of being both trans and a woman. November 20th of each year is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Events across the United States and the world are held to memorialize trans people who were...
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Trans woman ‘pushed to death’ by friend →
A respected human rights lawyer and transgender woman was pushed to her death in front of a train by a friend she had been helping, a court heard today.
Sonia Burgess, 63, … died at Kings Cross station last October when she was hit by an incoming underground train.
Senthooran Kanagasingham, 35, of Cricklewood, denies murder but admits manslaughter on the grounds of diminished...
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Former Macy’s Worker Turned Social Conservative... →
When Natalie Johnson saw a young transgender woman entering the dressing room at a Texas Macy’s, she moved swiftly to interrupt her, telling her that she was in the wrong place.
“I had to just be straightforward and tell him [sic], ‘You’re a man,’ and of course that … really got him steamed,” Johnson told KSAT.
But Macy’s LGBT-inclusive policy explicitly allows transgender customers to use...
“On December 16, call, email, and fax Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman...”
– Support CeCe McDonald! Call/email/fax the Hennepin County Attorney (link) [WARNINGS: talk of cissexist/racist violence (by the attackers & the “justice” system), cissexist/racist/gay-bashing slurs, & racist media representation]
some online free faxing places:
http://faxzero.com
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The Wage Gap and White Privilege + Trans-Misogyny
amydentata:
[TW: Economic violence, racism, rape]
iamateenagefeminist:
I’m very tired of hearing that women only make 77 cents on the male’s dollar. It’s not a correct statistic. It should read: White women only make 77 cents on the white man’s dollar.
That’s the real statistic.
Not all women are white. WOMEN don’t make 77 cents on the dollar, WHITE WOMEN do.
It’s important to remember.
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