When We Walk In Public…

…We have a target on our back, there religious zealots, transphobic bigots, and people who just want to deny our existence out there.

Suspects in slaying targeted transgender women for robberies, police say
Washington Post
By Keith L. Alexander
September 16, 2016

Two men with prior arrests who had set out to rob transgender women are responsible for crimes including a deadly July shooting in Northeast, according to authorities and court papers.

One man, Shareem Hall, 22, of District Heights, Md., is charged with first-degree felony murder in the slaying of Deeniquia Dodds. Dodds, 22, a transgender woman, was shot July 4 and died days later.
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“This is a conspiracy targeting transgender women,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Saunders said at a Friday hearing.

In an affidavit for Hall’s arrest, D.C. police said they think Dodds’s slaying is linked to other robberies in which transgender women were targeted, the first of which occurred June 28. In that case, they said, a man forced a transgender woman to disrobe at gunpoint, then ordered her to run across the street. He took her shoes, police said.
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Another armed robbery was reported July 4, after the shooting, police said, in an area frequented by transgender prostitutes, according to the affidavit.

Much of the violence is aimed at those who live on the margins, those who are trying to survive the only way they know how and their lives are usually taken by those who are also living on the margins.

Those who are like me have less to fear, those who are financially better off and or can blend into society usually are not targeted as much. However, we all face danger went we go out, all it takes is for one person to take exception to our existence to snuff out our lives.

In this political climate that is now being stirred up we are being made the scapegoats, we are being used to divert people from the real problems, we are being used by the magicians to distract people from the slide-of-hand.