When you stir up hate you have no idea where it will lead. When you demonize a minority you give a green light to violence and discrimination.
The result of their attacks on us has not only increased the violence against us, it has also increase the calls to suicide prevention hotlines.
This afternoon I am down in Bridgeport doing training for homeless shelter staff on the law and how to make their shelter safe for trans people. The only thing is that the training gets over a 3:00 PM and driving home will not be fun.
Update 5:00 PM
Traffic wasn't bad at all and at the training we had sixteen attendees.
Report: Hate Crimes Against Muslims and Transgender People Rose Sharply in 2015The Republican Party in its quest to get votes and donations has demonized us. They have tried to put a $2500 bounty on us, they have tried to criminalize us, they want to have us register with a government agency, and in North Carolina they made it crime for us to go the bathroom.
Jezebel
By Hannah Gold
September 17, 2016
The FBI won’t be releasing their hate crime statistics for 2015 until November. But in the the meantime the New York Times obtained an advanced copy of a new study conducted by researchers at California State University, San Bernardino that found hate crimes against Muslims and transgender people rose dramatically last year.
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Buried in literally the 14th paragraph of the article is that the report’s finding that hate crimes against all other groups barely fluctuated, except for one—those against transgender people rose by about 40 percent. It’s previously been reported by the Human Rights Campaign that 2015 was the deadliest year on record for gender-nonconforming people, and that trans women of color are “exponentially” more likely to experience violence, harassment, and discrimination.
The result of their attacks on us has not only increased the violence against us, it has also increase the calls to suicide prevention hotlines.
After North Carolina’s Law, Trans Suicide Hotline Calls DoubleIf you vote Republican you are condoning the attacks against us. You cannot separate financial conservatism from their social agenda, when you vote for one you are voting for the other.
Being denied basic human rights—like bathroom access—has life-threatening consequences.
The Daily Beast
By Samantha Allen
April 20, 2016
Anti-transgender bathroom laws like North Carolina’s HB 2 are not just inconvenient for transgender people. They may also be life-threatening.
Greta Gustava Martela, co-founder of Trans Lifeline, a crisis hotline for transgender people, told The Daily Beast that their call volume has “nearly doubled” since North Carolina restricted the use of public bathrooms based on birth certificate gender markers.
“This would normally be a time of year when we would be on an upswing,” Martela told The Daily Beast, explaining that suicide prevalence generally rises in the spring, but to her the steepness of this increase is “indicative of some event happening, rather than the normal seasonal fluctuations.”
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From April 8 to April 16, the most recent date included in the data set, the hotline has only seen two days below 200 incoming calls. On April 13, they received what Martela notes is an “unprecedented” 357 calls.
When asked if the call volume increase could be attributed to any media attention directed at Trans Lifeline post-HB 2, Martela cited internal analysis showing that the hotline had already reached two-thirds of U.S. counties—“basically all the populated places in the United States”—within six months of its 2014 launch.
This afternoon I am down in Bridgeport doing training for homeless shelter staff on the law and how to make their shelter safe for trans people. The only thing is that the training gets over a 3:00 PM and driving home will not be fun.
Update 5:00 PM
Traffic wasn't bad at all and at the training we had sixteen attendees.
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