Stop The HATE!

Less than ten days since I wrote about the girl in Oxford California being murdered because she was gender variant, another child was murdered this time in Fort Lauderdale.

Gay teen shot dead while dressed as woman in Fort Lauderdale
By Brian Haas and Sofia Santana | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
February 23, 2008

FORT LAUDERDALE - The shooting death of a gay teenage boy who was dressed in women's clothing is being investigated as a possible hate crime, while detectives try to determine whether he was targeted because of his sexual orientation.

Simmie Williams Jr., 17, was attacked on the 1000 block of Sistrunk Boulevard by two young men who wore dark clothing and might live in the neighborhood, police said. Williams, who was wearing a dress and was known in the area by his first name or as "Chris" or "Beyonce," was shot about 12:45 a.m. Friday and soon afterward died at Broward General Medical Center, police said.It's unclear what Williams was doing in the area, about four miles from his house, but police are investigating whether he was working as a prostitute, officials said.

And in Detriot…

Details slow to emerge in apparent murder of trans woman
By Jason A. Michael
Pride Source

DETROIT -

The body of a young transgender woman was discovered Monday near the intersection of Canfield and Ellery Streets on Detroit's East Side. At press time, few details are known.

"We are trying to find out the identity of the victim," said Melissa Pope, director of victim services for Triangle Foundation. "My understanding is that the victim is African-American and in their late teens to early 20s. We're getting little pieces of information."

In addition this month a ten year old girl committed suicide in England when she told her mother that she felt that she was a girl and the mother wouldn’t let her wear make-up.

Over in England a ten-year-old girl committed suicide…

Gender torment of 10-year-old Cameron
Sheffield Star

A BOY of 10 has been found hanged at his South Yorkshire home after telling his mum he wanted to be a girl.
Tragic Cameron McWilliams had already asked for permission to wear make-up, and been teased after he was found wearing his half-sister's knickers.

His desperate mum Kelly McWilliams told a Doncaster inquest she had bought him girls' underwear to wear in private, but had refused his requests to be allowed to wear make-up.

She said: "It was apparent he was unhappy and said he wanted to be a girl. He did like girls' things."

It is time we stop persecuting people who are different, it time to stop preaching hate. We all have to take a stand against violence; we have to speak-up. We can no longer sit by while people are murdering people who are different whether because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental disabilities or for what ever else a person is different. I think the Reverend Jesse Jackson said it best in his poem “I am Somebody”-- we are all somebody and we can never forget that.

We have to Stop the Hate!